Waiting at the Homeplace, released in 2004 on Hay Holler (HH-CD 1368), is Big Country Bluegrass's seventh album, cut mid-stream during the Independence, Virginia band's long tenure with the Blacksburg-area label. Tommy Sells leads on mandolin with his wife Teresa Sells on guitar and lead vocals, backed by the era's core sidemen — bassist Alan Mastin, fiddler Billy Hawks, guitarist and singer Jeff Michael, and banjoist Lynwood Lunsford. The repertoire leans hard into traditional Blue Ridge bluegrass with country and gospel inflections, mostly mid-to-uptempo and energetic. The title points to the homeplace-and-mountain themes that defined the band's Galax-region identity, three years before the twentieth-anniversary record that closed out their Hay Holler chapter.
Tracklist
- 1 Time To Say Goodbye 2:33
- 2 Larry's Song 3:18
- 3 Kentucky Girl alt version 2:53
- 4 I’m Knee Deep In Loving You alt version 3:16
- 5 John Henry alt version 3:12
- 6 Cabin in Caroline alt version 2:36
- 7 Welcome Home 2:48
- 8 Take This Hammer alt version 2:18
- 9 Stone Wall 3:18
- 10 Forty Years of Trouble alt version 3:18
- 11 Lonely Side Of Goodbye 2:46
- 12 Phase One 3:26
- 13 Honey You Don’t Know My Mind alt version 3:39