The Bluegrass Album, Vol. 2, released by The Bluegrass Album Band in 1982 on Rounder Records, continues the ensemble's project of honoring the hard-driving bluegrass that preceded the progressive era. Tony Rice, J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Bobby Hicks, and Todd Phillips reassemble around repertoire including Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky, I'll Never Shed Another Tear, and Ocean of Diamonds, delivering performances that match technical fluency with genuine feeling for the style. The production is clean and unadorned, placing the instruments in natural proportion. One Tear, Sitting Alone in the Moonlight, and So Happy I'll Be are rendered with a relaxed authority that only comes from musicians who have thoroughly absorbed their source material. The album reinforces what the first volume established: this was not nostalgia, but a living argument for the vitality of the tradition.
Tracklist
- 1 Your Love is Like a Flower Source Recording 3:00
- 2 We May Meet Again Someday 2:51
- 3 Take Me in Your Lifeboat Source Recording 2:50
- 4 Sitting Alone in the Moonlight Source Recording 2:52
- 5 Back To The Cross 2:50
- 6 Just When I Needed You Source Recording 2:36
- 7 One Tear Source Recording 2:17
- 8 Ocean of Diamonds Source Recording 2:40
- 9 Is it Too Late Now Source Recording 2:43
- 10 So Happy I’ll Be Source Recording 2:37
- 11 Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky Source Recording 2:52
- 12 I’ll Never Shed Another Tear Source Recording 3:03
