Inland Northwest Bluegrass Association with the Osborne Brothers. others, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Doyle The Harwell Grice Band, A Million Lawson & Quicksilver, Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Miles (harwellgriceband.com). A Vincent, and Bradley Walker. Great listening for cracker jack Virginia bluegrass a road trip! band, these five guys will knock Eddie & Martha Adcock with Tom your socks completely off. They Gray & Friends, Many a Mile (pxrec.com). A have no desire to reinvent fine collection of songs and tunes from three bluegrass, it’s solid, traditional musicians whose names you probably recognize. bluegrass on all 12 songs and tunes, some you’ll Eddie, an early member of the Country recognize (“Crying Holy,” “I’m Blue, I’m Gentlemen, chose several Gents classics (e.g. Lonesome,”) and some not (“Ashes to Ashes,” “A “Two Little Boys,” “Mary Dear”) among the 14 Million Miles”), but you’ll enjoy all of ‘em. cuts on this album, including maybe the best Southern Rail, On the performance ever of a great banjo instrumental he Road From Appomattox wrote, “Nightwalk.” (southernrail.com). You may not Lonesome River Band, recognize the name, but the three Still Learning (ruralrhythm.com). guys and one gal Thirteen knock-you-out numbers in this great Massachusetts-based by one of today’s top bluegrass band have been at it for quite a bands. Headed up by banjoist long while. The 12 songs and tunes here will give Sammy Shelor, these five guys bands in our region ideas for new material to learn definitely know how to do it! that will impress audiences no end. This is great O Brother, Where Art Thou - Deluxe bluegrass music by a great bluegrass band! Edition (usual online and other sources). This is Akira Otsuka, First Tear (pxrec.com). If the expanded edition of the soundtrack album. you don’t recognize this guy’s You get the original CD plus a second CD with 14 name, you may recognize the songs and tunes recorded for the film but not Japanese bluegrass band he plays included in the original album. Worth having, for with, i.e. Bluegrass 45, which first sure! toured the U.S. back in 1971. Merl Johnson, Better Man (pxrec.com). Otsuka is a superb mandolin Johnson is a top-notch bluegrass player, and he wrote most of the material on this multi-instrumentalist–and great 14-cut CD. Guests include Sam Bush, Kenny mandolin player–whose band lays Smith and Eddie Adcock. Whoo-EE! down 14 super bluegrass numbers Mark Twain - Words & Music here that will make you wonder if (marktwainmuseum.org). This 2- your ears deceive you, so good is CD set was produced as a benefit the music. Wowzers! project for The Mark Twain Daily & Vincent, The Boyhood Home & Museum in Gospel Side of Daily & Hannibal, Missouri. Jimmy Vincent (crackerbarrel.com / Buffet, as Huck Finn, reads rounder.com). Daily & Vincent selections from Huckleberry Finn. The narrator is regularly blow the roof off here, Garrison Keillor. Clint Eastwood is the voice of there, and everywhere. Mark Twain, and Angela Lovell is the voice of Standards plus a couple of new Susy Clemens. Music is provided by, among ones written by Jamie Daily, every one a keeper.

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