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Close Kin: A Reunion of Bluegrass and Old-Time Music

Various Artists

Album · 2011 · Mountain Roads MMR 1012

Close Kin: A Reunion of Bluegrass and Old-Time Music (Mountain Roads MMR 1012) is a 16-track CD released in 2011 that puts bluegrass and old-time musicians together on mostly familiar older songs. Producer Johnny Williams and Mountain Roads’ Karl Cooler developed the idea, which took its cue from the way string players from different styles mix at the Galax Old Fiddler’s Convention. Bluegrass Today, previewing the album, said one track might pair clawhammer banjo with bluegrass fiddle, the next switch the roles, and others combine three-finger and old-time banjos or fiddlers from both sides.

The credits show that mix. Adam Steffey plays mandolin and Tina Steffey clawhammer banjo on several tracks, Scott Freeman plays fiddle, mandolin and sings harmony, and Samantha Snyder, Zeb Snyder and Bud Snyder (fiddle, guitar and bass) are on others; old-time fiddlers Eddie Bond, Brian Grimm and Jerry Correll appear alongside bluegrass fiddlers. Jeanette Williams sings lead on “Little Bird of Heaven,” “Bound for to Leave” and “Come All You Coal Miners,” and Johnny Williams leads “Chilly Winds.” “Soldier’s Joy” and “Tennessee Gray Eagle” are among the instrumentals.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Chilly winds 3:54
  2. 2 Little Bird of Heaven alt version 3:51
  3. 3 Tennessee grey eagle 3:05
  4. 4 Always a day too late 3:38
  5. 5 Rattlin' bones 3:31
  6. 6 Old horse and buggy 3:13
  7. 7 With tears in my eyes 2:56
  8. 8 Sugar Hill 3:48
  9. 9 Wise County 2:27
  10. 10 Bound for to leave 2:41
  11. 11 Soldier’s Joy alt version 1:34
  12. 12 Seven cent cotton, forty cent meat 3:07
  13. 13 Come all you coal miners 3:18
  14. 14 Walk Along John to Kansas alt version 3:26
  15. 15 Say Darling Say alt version 3:35
  16. 16 Holly ding 2:36

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