Joe Mullins Receives SPBGMA's DJ of the Year Award

Joe Mullins received the Bluegrass DJ of the Year award from the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) during a ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee on Sunday, February 6th.








Joe Mullins is a southwestern Ohio native who has been an active bluegrass performer and broadcaster for over 25 years. Since 1982, Mullins has worked as an on air personality, programming bluegrass music on full service commercial radio stations almost daily. As a banjo player, Mullins was a founding member of the Traditional Grass and Longview, and has been busy since 2006 with his band, Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers.


In 1995, Mullins formed Town and Country Broadcasting, Inc., purchasing WBZI Radio in Xenia, Ohio, and has since expanded into a network of southwest Ohio stations collectively referred to as Classic Country Radio including the addition of WKFI AM 1090 in Wilmington in 2003, WEDI AM 1130 in Eaton in 2004 and most recently FM 100.3, reaching the Dayton/Xenia region. Mullins programs a unique mix of locally produced programming including country oldies, bluegrass, news and information heard daily by thousands of loyal listeners and worldwide at www.myclassiccountry.com. He is on air weekdays 1:00pm – 3:00pm EST featuring bluegrass and bluegrass gospel music.



With the ability to feature the music he knows and loves on mainstream radio daily for many years, Mullins has continually created new bluegrass fans, helped new artists become established and provided promotional assistance to hundreds of concerts and festivals. As a commercial broadcaster and active member of the business community, he has also generated sponsor dollars for bluegrass events and introduced our music and audience to many satisfied clients.



Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers performed at the SPBGMA weekend event in Nashville on Friday, but Mullins was unable to attend the Sunday awards due to a previously scheduled performance back in Ohio. Upon hearing the news, Mullins was both surprised and delighted. "What a weekend! I am so thankful for my listeners and all who made the 2011 SPBGMA DJ Award possible," stated Mullins. "It was great to be at the show this weekend with the Radio Ramblers as well! We are blessed!"


For more information on Joe Mullins and his radio program, please visit http://www.myclassiccountry.com/ . For more information on Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, visit http://www.radioramblers.com/ .

Joe Mullens and the Radio Ramclers will be performing at the Laurel Highlands Bluegrass Festival thia June.  http://www.laurelhighlandsbluegrass.com/

Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers Celebrate the Season By Helping Those Less Fortunate

To celebrate the season and their new Hymns From The Hills CD, Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers have scheduled a weekend of concerts, December 4th, 5th & 6th, and are also hoping to help those in need during the holidays.

The band is asking everyone to bring a non-perishable food donation to each of these concerts and in doing so, The Ramblers hope to gather a truckload of food to assist those less fortunate this holiday season. The concerts are as scheduled:


Friday, December 3 – Franklin, OH – Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers perform at Freedom Worship Center, 7 p.m. Freedom Worship Center is located at 90 Deardoff Road in Franklin. See www.freedomcog.com or call 937-704-9794.


Saturday, December 4 - Clifton, OH - Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers perform at the Clifton Opera House, 5 South Clay Street. Showtime 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door. Historic Clifton is located just 7 miles south of Springfield on St. Rt. 72. See www.villageofclifton.com or www.cliftonoperahouse.com. Call 937-767-2343.


Sunday, December 5 – Springfield, OH – Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers perform at Middle Urbana Missionary Baptist Church, 5 p.m. Middle Urbana Missionary Baptist Church is located at 2605 Middle Urbana Road. See http://www.mumbchurch.org/



The Friday and Sunday church services are free of any admission other than the food donation, and the Saturday evening concert is only $10 at the door.


The church in Franklin, Ohio, is the home church of Adam McIntosh and his family. Adam is the band’s guitar player, a great vocalist and songwriter. The Springfield, Ohio, church is where Joe Mullins and his family have been active for many years.



Joe Mullins is a southwestern Ohio native who has been a recognizable banjo player, vocalist and radio broadcaster for 25 years. Mullins toured and recorded as a founding member of the band the Traditional Grass until 1995, when he purchased WBZI Radio in Xenia, Ohio. Mullins recorded and performed with the band Longview, earning Song of the Year and Recorded Event of the Year awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association in the late 1990’s. Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers formed in 2006 and have been widely accepted the past few years, performing extensively in the US and Canada. The band’s personnel has not changed since they organized and includes Joe Mullins; banjo and vocals, Adam McIntosh; guitar and vocals, Mike Terry; mandolin and vocals, Evan McGregor; fiddle and vocals and Tim Kidd; bass.



Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers offer an entertaining and educational mix of quality bluegrass and gospel music. A professional yet relaxed and engaging presentation from the group features innovative banjo, fiddle, mandolin and guitar work, a good variety of vocal arrangements including a capella quartets and tasteful, down-home humor. Joe Mullins' family history has helped shape his ability to offer an authentic bluegrass and Appalachian music experience to his listeners. His father, Paul Mullins, was an accomplished fiddler and bluegrass broadcaster who received an Ohio Heritage Fellowship in 2007 before his passing in 2008. Joe has presented bluegrass entertainment on hundreds of national stages (Merlefest, Telluride, the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, etc.) and at dozens of Ohio events recently with the Radio Ramblers.


To date, the band has recorded two CDs for Rebel Records. Rambler's Call was released earlier this year and the band's all -gospel project, Hymns From The Hills will be released February 1, 2011. Sirius XM will feature a World Premier of Hymns From The Hills during a "Track By Track" special that will air on Wednesday, December 29th at 11:00am EST with repeat performances on December 30th at 9:00pm EST, January 1st at 8:00am EST and January 2nd at 11:00am EST. The "Track By Track" special will include an interview with the band conducted by Kyle Cantrell and tracks from the CD in its entirety.
For more information on Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, please visit http://www.radioramblers.com/.

Joe Mullins and Radio Ramblers New Release

Xenia, Ohio – February 2009 – Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers proudly announce the release of their newest CD project, Rambler’s Call.

After three years of performing and recording, the band is thankful to have developed a classic Bluegrass blend and assemble a diverse set of old and new songs that fit together very well. The group offers so much vocal variety with this CD. Highlights include “The Old Rocking Chair” written by Mullins’ former band mate, Gerald Evans Jr. Also featured, a grassy treatment of Marty Stuart’s “Farmer’s Blues” with Mullins' high lead vocals and guest Matt DeSpain on dobro.

The band dedicated the new CD project in memory of Joe’s dad, Paul “Moon” Mullins, who passed away in 2008. A few of the rare tunes in the disc were featured on his radio show hundreds of times. “Old Blue Tomorrow” is an obscure album cut from an old George Jones release. “Boston Jail” and “Another Day, Another Dollar” are tunes with an old-time flavor that Joe heard his dad play by Porter Wagoner many years ago.

Joe Mullins is a southwestern Ohio native who has been a recognizable banjo player, vocalist and a radio broadcaster for 25 years. Joe toured and recorded as a founding member of the band the Traditional Grass until 1995, when he purchased WBZI Radio in Xenia, Ohio. Mullins recorded and performed with the band Longview, earning Song of the Year and Recorded Event of the Year awards from the IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) in the late 1990’s. He was honored by winning an Instrumental Recording of the Year award in 2001 from the IBMA for his banjo work on Rebel Record's Knee Deep in Bluegrass. Mullins was also one of many artists in 2006 sharing Album of the Year honors for Celebration of Life, on Skaggs Family Records.

Mullins owns an network of Ohio radio stations, adding WKFI in Wilmington and WEDI in Eaton recently. Most weekdays he is on the air from 2 until 5 p.m. featuring Bluegrass and Old-Time Gospel music on all three stations and webcasting at http://www.myclassiccountry.com/. He is a 2009 nominee for Broadcaster of the Year at the upcoming SPBGMA Awards Show in Nashville.
Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers formed in 2006 for the initial purpose of performing at promotions for Mullins’ radio stations. Since the band’s first CD release in 2007 entitled Tuned In, requests for performances by the Radio Ramblers have grown, expanding the 2009 schedule to include forty appearances at regional and national music venues and festivals through eight states.

The Ramblers feature Adam McIntosh on guitar and vocals. McIntosh provides the lead vocals for four songs in the new CD including the title track “Ramblers Call”, written by Aubrey Holt. McIntosh formerly worked with Rounder recording artists, Dry Branch Fire Squad.

Fiddler and vocalist, Evan McGregor, has been a member of a number of regional and national acts since his career started, including the Wildwood Valley Boys. McGregor operates Oscar Fish Studio in Brookville, Ohio, and served as engineer and co-producer on the new recording.

Mike Terry, mandolin player and vocalist, first met Joe Mullins when they performed together in the gospel group, the Beacons. Terry’s lead vocals are featured on four selections, including the CD’s only a cappela gospel song, “Don’t You Want Go Home”.
Bass player, Tim Kidd, is rock solid throughout the new project and also added a snare drum to the train tune “Smoke Along The Track” and the CD’s only instrumental “Charlotte Breakdown”.

Traditional Ties, 11/30, Highlights

New adds for Traditional Ties, 11/30/08, Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers, Earl Scruggs with Family and Friends, and The Kickin' Grass Band.








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