Three Tall Pines

Band · Active 2008–present
Contemporary Bluegrass

Three Tall Pines is a New England string band, based in Massachusetts in the 2010s, that plays bluegrass and its own songs. Its records include Short While Ago (2008), All That’s Left (2011), the six-song Taproot (2014) and Country (2026).

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The band’s first two albums were made up of songs written within the group, among them “Stone Walls,” “Jenny Mule” and “Pinewood Box” on Short While Ago and “Tire Chains” and “Blue Pontiac” on All That’s Left. By 2014 the quartet was Dan Bourdeau on guitar and lead vocals, Joe Lurgio on mandolin, Nick DiSebastian on bass and Conor Smith on fiddle.

Taproot, released in March 2014, turned to the older songs that had shaped the four players: Bill Monroe’s “With Body and Soul” and “Walls of Time,” “Angel Band” in the Stanley Brothers’ manner, “Crying Holy” and the old-time “Raleigh and Spencer,” with Bourdeau’s “Stonewalls,” a song about change in a rural community. Ron Cody produced it and played banjo on three tracks, and “With Body and Soul” opens with three fiddles, Smith’s joined by those of the guests Brittany Haas and Lauren Rioux. In 2026 the band released the singles “Barrel of Love” and “Barstools” and then the ten-song album Country.

  • Lauren Rioux
    Played on recording with Three Tall Pines
  • Ron Cody
    Played on recording with Three Tall Pines

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