Many folks remember the great bluegrass records from the 1950s and ’60s. The power and soul of that music has won the hearts of people across the globe. Few bands have come along in recent years that directly draw their influence from that classic era of the music’s history. High Fidelity is a rising group whose love and devotion to that music is unsurpassed. The name alone says it all: HIGH FIDELITY.
Formed in early 2014, the group received its first achievement with a first place win in the International Band Championship at the 40th Annual Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) Awards. They were nominated for IBMA New Artist of the Year for three consecutive years, alongside several other nominations in the industry.
The band consists of four outstanding musicians and singers who are steeped in the sounds of tradition. Jeremy Stephens (guitar, banjo, lead vocals) has worked for the world-famous gospel group The Chuck Wagon Gang, on the television show Ray Stevens’ Nashville, and most recently with Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys. Corrina Rose Logston Stephens (fiddle, harmony vocals) has worked with a who’s who of today’s traditional-based bluegrass performers, most notably Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys and Jim Lauderdale. Kurt Stephenson handles banjo duties and harmony vocals – he is the 2010 National Bluegrass Banjo Champion. Multi-instrumentalist and harmony vocalist Daniel Amick has won numerous instrumental contests across the Southeast and is a recipient of IBMA’s 2019 Instrumentalist of the Year Momentum Award. High Fidelity draws much of their inspiration from bands like Don Reno & Red Smiley, The Stanley Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, and Jim & Jesse. Many have described them as the new Johnson Mountain Boys.