Bela Fleck - Live Heart: My Bluegrass Heart At The Ryman - VINYL LP

My God it's good to see you... That first line from Nickel Creek's seventh album Celebrants likely prophesies the warm response awaiting the Americana-bluegrass group's first all-new in nine years. While the Grammy-winning trio of singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalists Sara Watkins (fiddle), Sean Watkins (guitar), and Chris Thile (mandolin) had sporadically collaborated since 2014's A Dotted Line, a 2020 interview pegged to the 20th anniversary of Nickel Creek's debut album ignited a spark. InchIt was fun to have a reason to wax nostalgic about some stuff that we'd done,Inch says Thile. InchAnd then when we got together, it was just so clear, 'Oh, yeah, we've got some new music to make.'Inch They certainly did. The long layoff yielded a bounty of 18 interconnected songs written collectively during a creative retreat in Santa Barbara in early 2021. The tracks form a mosaic that is beautiful from a distance, but each tile also tells it's own story.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2021 from the award-winning country music singer/songwriter. The songs on Heart were written and recorded during a 28 day period in the mountains of North Carolina.

Now available on Limited Edition Green Swirl Vinyl. Robbie Fulks's adventurous spirit has defined a critically acclaimed 30-year career spanning 16 solo albums and two GRAMMY® nominations. He first came to national attention as a defining voice of the alt-country scene in the 1990s, with releases on Bloodshot, Yep Roc, and Geffen Records. Though his aversion to genre conventions has always made him difficult to pigeonhole, American country music - in the widest sense - is his home base, whether the country of Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Merle Haggard, or Mississippi John Hurt. While bluegrass has always been part of Fulks's musical vision, Bluegrass Vacation marks his first purely bluegrass endeavor. Paired with an extraordinary cast - Sam Bush, Sierra Hull, Ronnie McCoury, Tim O'Brien, Alison Brown, John Cowan, and Jerry Douglas - the result is one of the most remarkable bluegrass albums of the century. As Fulks puts it InchElectric guitars might give way to computers, as seems to be happening now, but the mountains will still be right there.Inch It's abundantly clear that Bluegrass Vacation is far more than a musical detour - he owns this music as much as it owns him.