"One More Thing," released in January 2025, is the debut vocal album of Nashville fiddler Fred Carpenter — a late-career statement from a sideman who spent decades as a first-call session and touring fiddler for Tony Rice, Emmylou Harris, George Strait, and others before stepping out as a lead vocalist for the first time. Harmony contributors include Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, and Kathy Mattea — an A-list cast signaling deep industry respect — alongside Kyle Hollingsworth of the String Cheese Incident. Spanning bluegrass, folk, country, and Americana with a fiddle-forward sound and Appalachian harmony sensibility, the record was widely reviewed as a debut triumph from an instrumentalist who had long been heard without being seen as a front man in his own right.
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