Malcolm Pulley
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Malcolm Pulley is a Virginia banjo player and songwriter who wrote “In the Gravel Yard,” the hard-luck cemetery song that helped introduce Blue Highway on their debut record.
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- Lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and plays banjo in the Commonwealth Bluegrass Band.
- Wrote “In the Gravel Yard,” a lyric in which the narrator takes stock at the end of a hard road, counting the friends and family who went before him.
- Blue Highway recorded it on their Rebel debut It’s a Long, Long Road, released in July 1995.
- The song was nominated for IBMA Song of the Year in 1996.
- Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver also recorded it, on Never Walk Away (1995).
- Publishes his songs through Pulleytime Music.
