Prime Tyme is a 2011 Rural Rhythm Records album (RUR-1085) by Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out. The lineup — Moore (guitar, lead vocals), Wayne Benson (mandolin), Steve Dilling (banjo, vocals), Justen Haynes (fiddle, vocals), and Edgar Loudermilk (bass, vocals) — represents the group during a run that included seven consecutive IBMA Vocal Group of the Year awards beginning in 2007. Loudermilk, a North Carolinian with distant ties to the Louvin Brothers' family line, anchors the bass chair with deep-tone authority and a tenor voice well-suited to the band's stacked harmony style. Prime Tyme documents a period in which IIIrd Tyme Out was widely regarded as the standard-bearer for traditional bluegrass vocal-group performance, maintaining the ensemble's high standard across nearly two decades of operation.
Tracklist
- 1 Old Kentucky Farmers 2:43
- 2 Good Old Missoula 3:48
- 3 Pretty Little Girl From Galax 2:54
- 4 If Your Heart Should Ever Roll This Way Again 2:59
- 5 Moon Magic 2:54
- 6 Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar alt version 2:39
- 7 Whippoorwill 3:40
- 8 Dusty 3:00
- 9 Hooverville 3:18
- 10 Big Muddy 2:31
- 11 Carroll County Blues 3:16
- 12 Little Magnolia 3:23
- 13 Sugarfoot Rag alt version 1:50
- 14 What's The World Coming To 3:06
