Known for their instrumental prowess, tight three-part harmonies, and award-winning songwriting, Songs From the Road Band remains a fixture on the Asheville acoustic music scene, while constantly forging ahead on their own path. “You Left Your Lonely,” the latest in a series of singles from the band, offers a thought-provoking twist on a quintessential bluegrass tale.
Members of the East Tennessee State University Bluegrass Pride Band and Director of ETSU Bluegrass, Old-Time and County Music Studies Dan Boner have been climbing national bluegrass charts alongside two nationally known alums.
Together they released the single, âWhen the Water Goes Down,â to weave a tale of mystery that adds to the regionâs rich folklore.
âWhen the Water Goes Downâ is a ballad written by award-winning ETSU alumni Becky Buller and Tim Stafford, both of whom took part in the recording. It combines regional history and storytelling set in the Northeast Tennessee town of Butler.
Evacuated and flooded in 1948 by the Tennessee Valley Authority for the creation of Watauga Lake, Butler has its own unique history, but Buller and Staffordâs song adds a fictional account set 35 years in the future, of a minister suspected of killing his wife after facts emerge when the lake is drained in 1983.
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Watch Bahamas & Greensky Bluegrass Perform ‘Live To Tape’
May 9, 2021
Afie Jurvanen) premiered his latest “Live To Tape” episode featuring Greensky Bluegrass. As with past installments, Bahamas collaborated remotely from Halifax, Nova Scotia with GSBG assembled at Echo Mountain Recording in Asheville, North Carolina.
The recording appears to have occurred in March when Greensky Bluegrass also livestreamed a performance at Echo Mountain for
Echo Sessions that saw that band cover Bahamas’ song “Waves.” The “Live To Tape” episode opened with “Waves,” which appeared on the 2014 album,
Bahamas Is Afie. Next came “Opening Act” from Bahamas’ 2018 album,
Earthtones, “Bitter Memories” from
Pink Strat.
While the pandemic has put a damper on much of Leftover Salmon s live-music fun, it hasn t stopped the Rocky Mountain-launched jamgrass band from recording a new batch of rootsy and eclectic offerings over the past year. On the group s latest release,
Brand New Good Old Days, the band serves up a sizzling ten-track platter of its characteristically eclectic fare, with Greg Garrison, the group s longest-running bassist, producing the new release and singing one of his own songs, Left Unsung, an homage to the late Jeff Austin of Yonder Mountain String Band. Westword caught up with Garrison to discuss the new drop and the latest developments for Salmon.