| Dry Bread Road is Rick Newsome, vocals and mandolin, and Bette Newsome vocals and guitar. The name, Dry Bread Road, is borrowed from the name of a road that runs from Emporia, Va., through western Greensville county, Va. to central Brunswick county, Va., approximately 25 miles, where it becomes Broadnax road. According to legend, Dry Bread Road got its name at the end of the Revolutionary War when British troops were moving through the county and , as was common practice for both sides , the troops would confiscate rations from the locals. Having heard that the British troops were coming, the folks along the route hid everything and feigned that they only had dry bread. Troops came to refer to the route as the Dry Bread Road, because that was pretty much all they were able to take from the residents. Rick Newsome was raised on the Dry Bread Road and on a side road off the DBR, known as Allentown road (aka Sugar Pig hill). Bette Newsome is from a little further west,Charlotte County, from the small town of Drakes Branch. |
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| NEWSome Flash!!!! DryBread Road placed 2nd in the 2011 NC State Fair Folk Festival. Rick Newsome received honorable mention in the adult male vocal category at the same event. |