MP3 Lost In The Fog - Not Far From The Tree
Modern bluegrass - our roots show, but this is all original material.
11 MP3 Songs
COUNTRY: Bluegrass, COUNTRY: Western Swing
Details:
This is our second CD (see The Devil''s Thumb, also here at CDBaby) but our first with all original material. The band consists of:
Michael Craig Moore, on banjo and vocals, the author of most of the songs. Michael is an architect, a father, and a driving force in what we create.
Jake Weber is our guitar player; she lends us a great singing voice and a great personal warmth.
Mark Snyder is our bass player and other primary vocalist along with Jake. His creative and jazzy style on the bass and the vocals define our sound almost as much as the tunes.
Jason Parker plays mandolin with a unique style and sings bass and baritone parts; his sparkling performances match his personality.
Brad Hull is a newer member, having joined at the start of 2004, and plays fiddle and sings. The rest of the band has been together 10 years, but they were right, a fiddle adds to it.
Some of these songs were written by one member, others in collaboration - the lyrics to Mother Gold were found after Jake''s mother-in-law passed away, in her papers, and Jake put them to music because she found them so compelling. Michael played a substantial part in originating 7 of the 11 songs on this CD.
It should be emphasized that Orville Johnson was our producer on this CD, and he put some of his magic touch into it as well, with arrangement ideas, and with dobro, Weissenborn and guitar and with various rhythm instruments.
The sizzling dobro work on this CD is vintage Orville Johnson. Paul Elliott was brought in to do the fiddle part on I Haven''t Started Missing You Yet, a classic country style song. Our recording engineer was much more than just that; David Lange contributed musically too, with an accordion addition to Timber Town that is just what the doctor ordered.
Stylistically, this CD is a good reflection of Lost In The Fog; some swingy, some country, some funky, and all basically bluegrass. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed putting it together for you.