Russ Carson's Songs That Birds Don't Sing, released on Engelhardt Music Group (EMG 10910) in 2025, showcases the Scruggs-style banjoist—a veteran of Audie Blaylock & Redline and Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder—in a structured series of featured collaborations. Ron Block contributes vocals on "Look Me Up By the Ocean Door"; Ricky Skaggs appears on "Sally Goodin'"; Paul Brewster and Nate Burie contribute vocals and guitar on additional tracks; and Ronnie Bowman sings on "Grapes on the Vine." The album mixes original material with rediscovered songs spanning two decades of bluegrass history, framing Carson's authoritative picking as the thread connecting a cast of the genre's most recognized voices in a project of deliberate stylistic celebration.
Tracklist
- 1 Look Me Up By The Ocean Door 3:09
- 2 Awesome Sauce 4:53
- 3 Girl from the Canyon alt version 2:24
- 4 Side Saddle 3:32
- 5 Bugle Call Rag alt version 2:45
- 6 Father, Son and Holy Ghost 3:29
- 7 Valley Forge Source Recording 3:36
- 8 Sally Goodin alt version 3:19
- 9 Listening to the Rain alt version 2:42
- 10 Five Speed 3:01
- 11 Grapes on the Vine alt version 3:26
