A couple of songs and banjo/ fiddle duets add some texture and allow everyone to catch their breath. The album includes familiar and tantalizingly unfamiliar tunes drawn from some of our favorite fiddlers (listed in a pdf of liner notes)-folks like Otis Burris, Bob Douglas, Tommy Magness, Leslie Keith, Red Wilson, and Roy Wooliver. Joe Dejarnette's bass rounds it all out for a thick, driving string band sound. The Jims (Nelson and Collier) lay a fine foundation on guitar and mandolin. Cutting his teeth in the scene around Galax, Va, Ken Landreth delivers a three-finger banjo style that weaves perfectly around Joseph's fiddle. The Rocky Creek Ramblers conjure up a delicious throwback sound-earthy fiddle, percolating three-finger banjo, spanking mandolin chops, and tasty guitar and bass runs. It's a pile of well-rendered fiddle tunes with rock-solid backup. Here's 22 tracks of hard-hitting transitional old-time tunes and songs inspired by the sounds that used to be heard at fiddlers conventions around the Southeast.
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