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Crash Course in the Blues
Released 2011
Wildfire's spankin'
new release, Crash Course in the
Blues,
is set for digital release on December
21, 2010
with a
physical release set for February 22,
2011 but you can get your copy now! This album has already made an impression
on bluegrass
radio,
reaching
#1 in December on the Roots
Music Bluegrass Report in advance of
it's official release.
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more below...
Packaging
is a jewel case with a 2-panel insert.
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The title
track takes us to the very un-bluegrass
venue of Hollywood & Vine (and
features Scott Vestal on
banjo), but the troubles that ensue
there are the same you could meet
with in a beer joint in Hazard or
Harlan. Hale’s “Lies
That You Told” and the traditional “Paint
This Town” are similarly hard-edged,
with the hard-driving Lewis back
in the driver’s seat. “She
Burnt the Little Roadside Tavern
Down” is also likely to get
its share of airplay as it effectively
straddles the line dividing honky
tonk from modern bluegrass.
Vince Gill’s “I
Wanna Know Your Name” has a
Lynyrd Synyrd-like boogie beat that
suits Hale just fine, and the band
also does justice to Gill’s “Lifetime
of Nighttime,” a ballad about
the hardships of blindness.
Two more highlights are a wistful reading of Keith Whitley’s “Daddy
Loved Trains,” a truly great bluegrass song, and a heartfelt turn on the
gospel chestnut “When He Reached Down His Hand for Me,” with Hale
injecting just the right amount of country soul.
- Aaron Keith Harris
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