“Rounder’s Spirit” is a song recorded by the Lonesome River Band, the long-running Virginia bluegrass group led by the banjo player Sammy Shelor. It appeared on their 2002 album “Window of Time.”
The song looks at the restless, hard-living spirit of a rounder — a man drawn to drink, gambling, and the road. The lyric weighs that wandering life and the toll it takes, in the tradition of bluegrass songs about men who cannot settle down.
The Lonesome River Band has long balanced a hard-driving sound with strong songwriting. The version heard here is by the Lonesome River Band.
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