Missy Raines

Missy Raines (born April 6, 1962) is an American bassist, singer, teacher, and songwriter. She has won 10 International Bluegrass Music Awards for Bass Player of the Year. Missy Raines was the first woman to win IBMA Bass Player of the Year award. She won 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2019, 2020, and 2021. In 1998 Missy Raines' first solo album "My Place in the Sun" (self released) was named IBMA Instrumental Recording of the Year. The Chicago Tribune named "My Place in the Sun" as one of the Top 10 Records of 1998. In 2018, "Swept Away" from Missy's album, Royal Traveller (Compass Records) was awarded IBMA "Recorded Event of the Year. The song features the First Ladies of Bluegrass named so for being the first women to win in their instrumental category, Missy Raines (bass), Alison Brown (banjo), Becky Buller, (fiddle), Sierra Hull, (mandolin), and Molly Tuttle, (guitar). In 2019, "Darlin' Pal(s) of Mine" also from Missy's album, Royal Traveller, was named IBMA "Instrumental Recording of the Year". This features bassists, Mike Bub and Todd Phillips, as well as Alison Brown on banjo. In 2020, Missy Raines' album, Royal Traveller, produced by Alison Brown, (Compass Records) was nominated for a Grammy. In 2020, Missy won IBMA "Song of the Year" for "Chicago Barn Dance" as co-writer along with Becky Buller and Alison Brown. The song was performed and recorded by the Chicago-based band "Special Consensus".

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