Record Reviews
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-Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice-Heartaches And Dreams
-Special Consensus- 35
-Mark Johnson & Emory Lester - Acoustic Vision
-Joe Diffie – Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album
-Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac - Take Off
-Nu-Blu - Nights
-The Infamous Stringdusters - Things That Fly
-Roland White -I Wasn’t Born To Rock ‘N Roll
-John Hartford Stringband - Memories of John
-Randy Kohrs -Quicksand
-The Sunny Side of Appalachia - Bluegrass from The Grassroots (Book)
-The Snyder Family – Comin’ On Strong
- Kathy Boyd & Phoenix Rising – Walk Humbly
By Robert Steelman
This third album from Oregon-based Kathy Boyd & Phoenix Rising is an ambitious undertaking. It is their first all-gospel effort, relying solely on all-original material written by members of the band. Kathy plays bass and sings lead on Thanksgiving, as well as on I Ain’t Afraid To Die. Tim Crosby – fiddle, mandolin, and guitar – holds credits to six of the 12 songs; his opening song, Cast The First Stone, serves well to set the tone for the entire project. Dennis Nelson – guitar and harmonica – has composed three of the songs on this album. Tom Tower – Dobro and banjo – wrote two of the numbers. These musicians have varying backgrounds – bluegrass, blues, and country rock – that lend a decidely western flavor to their brand of bluegrass. BMP
NEW RELEASES
GREENSKY BLUEGRASS/All Access: Volume 1
SOUTHPAW BLUEGRASS BAND/Home
TYLER GRANT’S FLATPICKING/Up The Neck
MILOM WILLIAMS II/My Path
CROWE/LAWSON/WILLIAMS/Old Friends Get Together
TIM MARTIN/Bluegrass Fiddle
DRIFTWOOD/Stronger Every Day
OLD TOWNE PROJECT/Hard Pressed
THE BLUE CANYON BOYS/Mountain Bound
THE BLUEGRASS SOUL PICKERS/If I Ever Get Home
NORTH TO ONTARIO/2010
BOBBY ATKINS & THE COUNTRYMEN/Memories Of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs Of The 1950s
BOBBY ATKINS & THE COUNTRYMEN WITH FAMILY & FRIENDS/I’d Rather Have Jesus
STEPHANIE BETTMAN/LUKE HALPIN/It All Comes Back To Love
TIM O’BRIEN/Chicken And EggLORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD/Carolina Hurricane
MOUNTAIN FAITH/Billy Red
CHATHAM COUNTY LINE/Wildwood
TIM LOVELL/Fireflies
RETRO & SMILING AND THE TENNIS SHOE CUT-UPS/Please Remember
GET LOW/Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
U.S. SENATOR ROBERT BYRD/Mountain Fiddler
RICH IN TRADITION/Black Mountain Special
FRANK SOLIVAN/ Dirty Kitchen
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