Name: Brothers of the Highway
Brand: Rounder
SKU: 29976980
Price: 14.39 USD
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Brothers of the Highway

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Album: Brothers of the Highway
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Steel Drivin Man'	More Info...
2)	Close By	More Info...
3)	When I Stop Dreaming	More Info...
4)	Back To Jackson County	More Info...
5)	Brothers Of The Highway	More Info...
6)	Tomorrow I'll Be Gone	More Info...
7)	Hills Of Caroline	More Info...
8)	Big River	More Info...
9)	Howdy Neighbor Howdy	More Info...
10)	Won t It Be Wonderful There	More Info...
11)	Back To Hancock County	More Info...
12)	Where Have You Been	More Info...

Album: Brothers of the Highway
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Steel Drivin Man'	More Info...
2)	Close By	More Info...
3)	When I Stop Dreaming	More Info...
4)	Back To Jackson County	More Info...
5)	Brothers Of The Highway	More Info...
6)	Tomorrow I'll Be Gone	More Info...
7)	Hills Of Caroline	More Info...
8)	Big River	More Info...
9)	Howdy Neighbor Howdy	More Info...
10)	Won t It Be Wonderful There	More Info...
11)	Back To Hancock County	More Info...
12)	Where Have You Been	More Info...

Performer Notes

Audio Mixer: Michael Latterell.
Liner Note Authors: Randy Pitts; Ricky Skaggs.
Recording information: House Of David, Nashville, TN; The Tracking Room, Nashville, TN.
Photographer: Gina Binkley.
Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent were much in demand bluegrass session players who worked with the likes of Ricky Skaggs and Doyle Lawson before venturing out as a duo, modeling themselves on classic genre duos the Louvins, the Delmores, and the Monroes, floating out high lonesome harmonies over crisp, professional playing. They were already very good when the pairing started, and they're arguably even better now, and this set, which the duo self-produced and which appears on Rounder Records, is full of all the things they do well, blending wonderful vocal harmonies with bright, nuanced playing, and while it's certainly bluegrass grounded in a full awareness of that genre's storied past, it also edges at times into a kind of delightfully graceful kind of folk-country, particularly on songs like the Vince Gill-penned "Hills of Caroline" and the beautiful "Where You've Been," which Kathy Mattea had a radio hit with a while back. All of this gives Brothers of the Highway a nice balance between high-flying bluegrass romps like the opener, "Steel Drivin' Man" (not the traditional tune but an original written by Dailey), reverential covers like the wonderful version here of the Louvin Brothers' ballad "When I Stop Dreaming," and original songs ("Back to Jackson County" -- another Dailey song), with everything adding up to a fine album full of graceful depth. ~ Steve Leggett