Randy Barnes

Musician
Best known for Bass

Randy Barnes is a bass player and harmony singer who has worked as a sideman with Lou Reid & Carolina, NewFound Road, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, the Larry Stephenson Band, the Josh Williams Band, Marty Raybon, Audie Blaylock, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers and Fast Track. In 2026 he released his first solo album, on Mountain Fever Records.

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He played string bass and sang bass harmony on Lou Reid and Carolina (Rebel, 1996), recorded at Doobie Shea Studios in Ferrum, Virginia, with Reid, Gena Britt on banjo, Alan Bibey on mandolin and Aubrey Haynie on fiddle. With NewFound Road he played bass on the Rounder album Life in a Song (2006), with Tim Shelton, Rob Baker and Jr. Williams; Jamey Booher replaced him in December 2008. In March 2009 he joined the Josh Williams Band, where for nearly three years he was bass player, tenor singer and road manager, leaving in October 2012.

He was out with Marty Raybon & Full Circle from 28 April 2013, on bass and harmony vocals, and around the same time worked with Audie Blaylock. In September 2013 he joined Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, staying more than a decade until February 2024. That June he became the bass player in Fast Track, alongside its founders Dale Perry and Steve Day.

In February 2026 Mountain Fever Records signed him as a solo artist. His self-titled album, reviewed in October 2026, has him on lead and harmony vocals, guitar and bass, with his brother Danny Barnes on mandolin and harmony vocals. It includes “No One Here to Love Me Now,” written by their late father, William Barnes, and Junior Sisk’s “There Goes Another Piece of My Heart.”

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