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David Lee wins the NC Folklore Society’s Brown-Hudson Award.

David Lee has won the North Carolina Folklore Society’s 2011 Brown-Hudson Award, awarded to “persons who have in special ways contributed to the appreciation, continuation, or study of North Carolina folk traditions.” With this prestigious honor, David joins the ranks of legendary North Carolina vernacular and traditional musicians such as Doc and Merle Watson, Etta Baker and Cora Phillips, Joe and Odell Thompson, George Higgs, Bishop Dreddy Manning, and Alice Gerrard.

Vision, reviewed. Party, recommended.

The Bachelors are in intensive training for our Tobacco A-Go-Go Dance Party this Saturday (described both below and herein by the Independent Weekly), and we trust that our fans, friends, and fellows are limbering up as well. But please take a breather from your exertions to check out these excellent new reviews of Said I Had a Vision. See you this weekend!

Melleraires in Rotterdam.

One of our daily pleasures is shipping international orders of Said I Had a Vision, to Sao Paolo, Paris, Tokyo, Manchester, London, Dublin, Copenhagen, and other locales far from our home in North Carolina. Here’s a nice review on the Rotterdam-based gospel blog Just Moving On. Thanks, Cies!

New Year, New Vision: Press and Repress.

This month we received the repressing of Said I Had a Vision, which is now available for sale directly from us, as well as from select record shops internationally who carry items distributed by Mississippi Records. The repressing features a new green LP label, but otherwise, it contains all the same materials as the original.

Another 500 Visions.

Thanks to your interest and support, the initial pressing of 500 copies of the Said I Had a Vision LP sold out before the official November 26th release date. (At least, our cache of copies is all gone, though the album is still available at discerning stores worldwide.) As David Lee puts it, the records are flying off the shelves!

Said I Had a Vision Release Concert at the Don Gibson Theater, November 7, 2010.

The Bachelors have been remarkably busy over the past month, with three record release parties in Shelby and Carrboro, North Carolina and Columbia, South Carolina. Whether you could join us or not, we hope you enjoy the above images from the Shelby event at the Don Gibson Theater, presented in collaboration with Destination Cleveland County and the Smithsonian New Harmonies exhibition.