Beautiful Ashes is a 2015 Mountain Home Music Company album (MH 16442) by Kentucky-born tenor John Bowman, a multi-instrumentalist whose career included a decade as tenor singer with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, a stint with the Isaacs gospel group, and a co-founding role in The Boxcars with Adam Steffey. The eleven-track program blends country, bluegrass, and gospel, produced by Bowman and Troy Engle. The instrumental cast includes Rob Ickes on resonator guitar, Ron Stewart on fiddle, Tre Corley on piano, and Nathan Faucett on drums. The combination of Ickes's and Stewart's credentials — both multiple IBMA award winners on their respective instruments — gives the album strong acoustic authority alongside Bowman's expressive, ministry-inflected tenor voice.
Tracklist
- 1 Let The Hard Times Roll 3:29
- 2 Ashes 2:56
- 3 Cold Day In Hell 3:16
- 4 Baby Girl 1:57
- 5 Caiaphas' Blues 2:34
- 6 Sweet River 4:41
- 7 He's Your Friend 2:37
- 8 Lies The Devil Told Me 3:50
- 9 They’re Holding Up the Ladder alt version 2:37
- 10 Reach Of His Hand 4:15
- 11 When My Travelin' Days Are Over 2:45