Twenty Year Blues by The Nashville Bluegrass Band, released in 2004, is a late-period statement from one of the most influential ensembles in post-revival bluegrass. The band — Alan O'Bryant, Pat Enright, Stuart Duncan, Mike Compton, and Gene Libbea — had spent two decades refining a sound that married deep-tradition bluegrass to the African-American gospel and old-time influences often elided from mainstream accounts of the music's origins. "Old Riverman" is characteristic: a song with roots in river-culture labor traditions, sung with the high harmony sophistication that had become the band's signature. The album is also implicitly retrospective — twenty years of a shared ensemble identity produces a coherence of sound that newer configurations rarely achieve, and this record captures that coherence at full maturity.
Tracklist
- 1 Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom Source Recording 2:42
- 2 Travelin' Railroad Man Blues 3:11
- 3 That's All Right 3:14
- 4 Old Riverman Source Recording 3:53
- 5 Pretty Red Lips 2:10
- 6 Sitting On Top of the World alt version 4:01
- 7 Luckiest Man Alive 3:48
- 8 Hush (Somebody's Callin' My Name) 3:56
- 9 Gambling Barroom Blues 3:13
- 10 There's A Better Way 3:13
- 11 Rockin' Chair Money 2:41
- 12 Crossing The Cumberlands 3:29
- 13 Tell Me Your Love Is Still True 2:30