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fave it Traditional Country | Bluegrass
12 tracks | 33 minutes
Released Apr 2006
on Mountain Redbird Music
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:34 I Caught A Keeper lyrics BUY MP3 02:34 I Caught A Keeper lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:34 I Caught A Keeper
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:47 Hump-Back Mule lyrics BUY MP3 01:47 Hump-Back Mule lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:47 Hump-Back Mule
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:44 Kentucky Mountain lyrics BUY MP3 02:44 Kentucky Mountain lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:44 Kentucky Mountain
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:00 Road To Columbus lyrics BUY MP3 02:00 Road To Columbus lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:00 Road To Columbus
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:34 Where No Heart Goes Hungry lyrics BUY MP3 03:34 Where No Heart Goes Hungry lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:34 Where No Heart Goes Hungry
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:39 We're The Kind Of People That Make The Jukebox Play lyrics BUY MP3 03:39 We're The Kind Of People That Make The Jukebox Play lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:39 We're The Kind Of People That Make The Jukebox Play
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:24 Dreaming Of A Little Cabin lyrics BUY MP3 03:24 Dreaming Of A Little Cabin lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:24 Dreaming Of A Little Cabin
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:07 Wild Card lyrics BUY MP3 02:07 Wild Card lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:07 Wild Card
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:42 You Don't Tell Me That You Love Me Anymore lyrics BUY MP3 02:42 You Don't Tell Me That You Love Me Anymore lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:42 You Don't Tell Me That You Love Me Anymore
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:03 You Must Walk The Line lyrics BUY MP3 02:03 You Must Walk The Line lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:03 You Must Walk The Line
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:56 Working On A Building lyrics BUY MP3 04:56 Working On A Building lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:56 Working On A Building
Old-school bluegrass. Edgy and emotional.
Bio / Background
In this return engagement, James Reams (“The Kentucky Songbird”) and Walter Hensley (“The Banjo Baron of Baltimore”) offer up, with the able collaboration of Jon (“Baltimore Jonny”) Glik, Mark Farrell and Carl Hayano (gotta get those last two boys some nicknames), a strong hand of songs and tunes, some originals, some traditional, some under-recorded gems and some drawn from unexpected places. Cut in one wild weekend, with all the musicians in the same studio at the same time and not a Pro-Tool in sight. Presented to you with all the edges intact and all the excitement raw.
The band’s self-titled first album, released in 2003, was nominated by the International Bluegrass Music Association as one of only seven nominees for its Recorded Event of the Year award. Here’s what Richard D.
↓ more ↓Smith wrote in Bluegrass Unlimited about that earlier album: “If you’re tiring of the slick stuff and yearn for something straight-ahead, there’s not a false bend or blend here.“
And if you’re hungry for bluegrass music with more grit and less glitz, here’s another heaping helping.
"Wild Card is not Nashville slick. But it's real.”
–Keith Lawrence, Owensboro (KY) Messenger-Inquirer
“With bluegrass music getting increasingly more slick, who would have thought that a band from Brooklyn, New York, would be a leader in reestablishing the classic sound of the 1950s… they are no ordinary bluegrass band as they draw much of their material from the South all the while playing with the power and drive of the big city.”
–Tom Druckenmiller, Sing Out
“… a dozen unabashedly rural bluegrass songs and tunes, reminiscent, perhaps, of a harder-edged Flatt & Scruggs…. In their understated but quietly confident way Reams, Hensley and compatriots make some of the most satisfying bluegrass around. I suppose that there is no one way that bluegrass is "supposed" to sound; nor, I'm sure, should there be. But if there were, it ought to be something like this, where the singers, the pickers, the songs and the soul of the music are as one.
–Jerome Clark, Rambles.net
“If you are unfamiliar with James Reams, Walter Hensley & the Barons of Bluegrass, you may not appreciate the excitement many fans find in the arrival of their second album. Wild Card is much in the same vein as a self-titled release three years ago, with the added coherence that comes with the experience of playing together….Wild Card is another in a line of superior bluegrass recordings from James Reams and crew. Painstakingly and artfully packaged, Wild Card should be warmly received by the ever-growing legions who have come to appreciate their music.”
–Donald Teplyske, Bluegrass Now
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Fabulous Mountain BluegrassRooboy wrote on June 12, 2009
What a fabulous talent this man is with astute precistion and a wonderful voice. One of the best Folk performers around. I recommend you download the great CD. Greg Perth Western Australia gremar1@bigpond.com.au






