WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[edwardofhuncote]

East Nash Grass, from a festival last Summer.

The tune is from their first album, and I hadn't heard them do Ridin' The Lines since the old days at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge.

[rv_bass]

They remind me of Hot Rize, they sound good 😊

[cozmik_cowboy]

It's A Beautiful Day, off their 2nd album.
(OK, show of hands:   How many thought they only had 1?  I thought it was 2, but they put out 4.  I think this calls for a deep dive in the very near future): 

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

They remind me of Hot Rize, they sound good 😊

Very much so. Indeed this is about as excited as I have been about anything happening in mainstream bluegrass music since Hot Rize in the 80's or Lonesome River Band in the 90's.

I am a little disappointed to see Jeff Partin hasn't returned on bass this year though, and a rotating cast isn't always a great look for a band on the bubble. I thought Jeff was a perfect fit. That's just life in that world. Could be insufficient money, clashing personalities. Who knows. BTDT. Their tour schedule looks fine for this year, so there's that.

[David Houck]

It's A Beautiful Day ... OK, show of hands:   How many thought they only had 1?

We had the first album (and by "we", I mean my friends and I at the time).  I don't recall any of the songs other than White Bird; and I don't recall if I knew that they had other albums.  My guess is that I didn't.

I just read their wikipedia page; and I can see where your thought of a "deep dive" would be warranted.


Oh, and according to Wikipedia, the song Don and Dewey "was, to all intents and purposes, identical to Deep Purple's "Wring That Neck"", which they did in retaliation for Deep Purple taking one of Beautiful Day's songs as an intro to a Deep Purple song.