Brad & Lori - Leading the group New Outlook is husband & wife team Lori Lyn & Brad Lambert. Lori plays upright bass and contributes powerful lead and harmony vocals reminiscent of some of the greats she listend to as a child. Dolly Parton, Connie Smith and more recently her good friend Dale Ann Bradley, are among the long list of favorite artists that influenced her soulful singing.
Brad brings to the band his own style of hard-driving banjo pickin' and lead and harmony vocals and adding his talents on various other instruments as well. His influences include Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Jimmy Martin and the Stanley Brothers...the music his father turned him onto as a youngster. Terry Baucom and Sammy Shelor top his list as most respected talents in the business today. Lori & Brad also collaborate together by writing much of their material. Currently they reside in Wapakoneta, Ohio.
Casey Cook - Guitar, Lead & Harmony Vocal - Casey has been a musician all of his life. His parents were professional bluegrass musicians with their band, Special Cooking. He was then inducted into the Florida Country Music Hall of Fame as the youngest touring bluegrass musician to perform and record professionally. In 1999 Casey moved to Atlanta, GA as a founding member of The Dappled Grays. In 2002 Casey joined the Andy Carlson Band in 2002, recording two studio projects, one of which was voted in the top 50 bluegrass releases of 2005. Casey's songs have been featured by MTV, and on several television programs. Casey joined the Music Faculty at Denison University in Granville, Ohio as the bluegrass guitar instructor in 2007. He serves as the co-director of the Denison Bluegrass Program. Casey just plain knows how to pick a guitar and sing.....it's just unbelievable to hear him pick and sing. Casey makes his home in Newark, OH with his wife and two children.