Mile Rocks
The Mile Rocks, also billed as the Mile Rocks Duo, are a father-and-daughter duo from San Francisco: Robyn Wadsworth, who sings lead, and her father Chris Wadsworth, who sings and plays guitar. They made two albums of old-time and bluegrass songs, Mile Rocks (2014) and Mile Rocks and Friends (2015), the second with guests including David Grisman, Molly Tuttle and John Reischman.
Chris Wadsworth started out as the lead singer and guitarist of the Golden Elixir Bluegrass Band, studied music at Williams College and worked as a picker and packer at Rounder Records before a career in technology and finance; he went on to found the FreshGrass Foundation, which he leads as president and executive director. The duo’s first album, Mile Rocks, came out on 1 February 2014, when Robyn was eleven. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Jim Nunally at Music Hill Recording in Crockett, California, and co-produced by Nunally, and its songs include “What Does the Deep Sea Say,” “Orphan Girl,” “Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow” and “New River Train.”
Mile Rocks and Friends, released on 12 August 2015, has ten tracks, each with guests: David Grisman on “Sittin’ on Top of the World,” “50 Miles of Elbow Room” and “Wayfaring Stranger”; Molly Tuttle and the fiddler John Mailander on “Windy Mountain” and “Dream of a Miner’s Child”; John Reischman, Nick Hornbuckle and Trisha Gagnon on “Shady Grove,” “No Depression in Heaven” and “Single Girl, Married Girl”; and Jim Nunally on “Distant Land to Roam” and “Annabelle.”
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Buddy DavisPlayed on recordings with Mile Rocks
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Robyn WadsworthPlayed on recordings with Mile Rocks
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John ReischmanPlayed on recording with Mile Rocks
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Molly TuttlePlayed on recording with Mile Rocks
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Nick HornbucklePlayed on recording with Mile Rocks
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Trisha GagnonPlayed on recording with Mile Rocks
