Saturday, October 15, 2011

Close Kin - Spotlight Artists of the Week

Close Kin is a brand new release that is a colaboration of old time music and bluegrass that was produced by Johnny Williams and has the Mountains Road Recordings label. Musicians include the likes of:
Adam & Tina Steffey (The Boxcars & The Grayson Highlands String Band)
Johnny & Jeanette Williams (The Jeanette Williams Band)
Scott & Mark Freeman (Pathway, Skeeter & The Skidmarks)
Mickey Galyean, Greg Jones, Jay Adams, Brad Hiatt & Jordon Blevins (Rich In Tradition)
Bud, Zeb, Samantha & Laine Snyder (The Snyder Family Band)
Dale Morris & Jerry Correll (Wolfe Bros String Band)
Edwin Lacy (Skeeter and the Skidmarks)
Eddie Bond (The New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters)
Jim Lloyd & Trevor McKenzie (Jim Lloyd and the Skyliners)
Brian Grimm (The Konnarock Kritters)
Trish Kilby Fore (Fox Creek Ramblers)
Tiffany Hurt (Wheeler)
Tim White, Dave Vaught &“Fat Albert” Blackburn (The VW Boys)
Wesley Easter (Eastwood Studio)
Rebecca Jones (Travis Frye & Blue Mountain)
The project consists of 16 very enjoyable tracts and is very worthy of listening to many times over. These are some photos of just some of the folks involved in this wonderful project. Also, there is a link to a great video that gives some great insight to the works involved in putting this music together.










Thanks to all involved from the vision to the performers and all the folks behind the scenes.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s9t5ZEdcTA

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