Take a Step Over, released on Sugar Hill in 1989, is a guitar record from Dan Crary, one of the players who established the flatpicked acoustic guitar as a lead instrument in bluegrass. Crary emerged in the 1960s and, through his own recordings and his work with Berline, Crary and Hickman, helped make the case that the guitar could carry fiddle tunes and lead lines with the authority of any front-line instrument. His tone here is full and his phrasing unhurried; even in technically demanding passages he never sounds as though he is straining. The program draws on the fiddle-tune and traditional repertoire Crary engaged throughout his career, alongside material such as 'Lord Build Me a Cabin.' As a mature statement from a musician with a fully formed voice, the album shows how much ground a flatpicker can cover without resorting to mere display.
Tracklist
- 1 Bugle Call Rag alt version 2:45
- 2 Take A Step Over 2:38
- 3 Crazy Creek alt version 2:57
- 4 Raleigh and Spencer alt version 4:15
- 5 Come Hither Go Yonder Source Recording 3:19
- 6 Willie, The Wandering Gypsy & Me 4:11
- 7 Hot Canary 3:34
- 8 Fishin' Creek Blues 5:02
- 9 Lord Build Me a Cabin alt version 3:51
