Bridging the Tradition is a 2016 album released by the Lonesome River Band on Mountain Home Music Company (MH 16502). The lineup features Sammy Shelor (banjo), Brandon Rickman (guitar, vocals), Jesse Smathers (mandolin, vocals), Mike Hartgrove (fiddle), and Barry Reed (bass), continuing the Virginia band's tradition of hard-driving, vocally rich bluegrass. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums chart, underscoring the band's enduring commercial resonance more than three decades after their founding. Shelor's fluid, melodic banjo style remains the group's sonic signature, and Bridging the Tradition demonstrates the stability and craft of a lineup that had matured into one of the genre's most dependable working acts.
Tracklist
- 1 Anything To Make Her Mine 3:17
- 2 Rocking Of The Cradle 3:12
- 3 Boats Up The River 3:56
- 4 Rock Bottom 3:03
- 5 Rose In Paradise 4:25
- 6 Showing My Age 4:09
- 7 Old Swinging Bridge alt version 2:49
- 8 Mirrors Never Lie 3:01
- 9 Thunder And Lightning 2:50
- 10 Waiting On My Heart To Break 3:07
- 11 Runnin' From The Blues 3:32
- 12 Real People 3:26