Fiddler's Green

Fiddler's Green
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Tim O'brien. I've not thought much about his work with the exception of noting that his name has been on a few other favorite recordings and seeing footage of him performing at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. I'll just say that this album is one that you'll find very entrancing. It's a great mixture of celtic, bluegrass, country and folk. Tim's vocals are smooth. They wind with the instruments like a mountain highway without the traffic. The liner in the cd reads that a fiddler's green is "the happy land/heaven imagined by sailors where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing and dancers that never tire." I really like this cd and for that matter am now a new fan of Tims. His same day release "Cornbread Nation" is also a very good work, and although doesn't top Fiddler's Green deserves a review of it's own. He's got my attention.

Alan Jackson Bluegrass Album Coming

Word is just out the Alan Jackson is working on a bluegrass album produced by Alison Krauss. The last collaboration for these two was in 1993 for "The Angels Cried" a holiday track from Jackson's album. Look for the new untitled album to be on the shelves this September.