Marbletown

Among the gifts I got from Santa last month was this new cd titled "Marbletown"  by Blue Highway. Another excellent effort by one of the best groups in bluegrass. The packaging includes a complete discography, including the words to the songs.  There's a lot of meat in these songs.  Love, death, trains, infidelity, betrayal, desertion, wandering & restlessness are just some of the topics touched on in this album. Like all of Blue Highway's work there's the solid traditional base to their music, but it's definitely contemporary without getting "new-grassy".  The vocals aren't twangy, but they are evocative and the musicianship is the industry's best. I think this might even appeal to a wider country and pop audience if it gets some air-time. There's a timelessness in this music that will appeal to a lot of us caught in this post-modern world. Check out the music excerpts on Amazon and you'll get hooked right away like I did.