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Along the Crooked Road
Along the Crooked Road
Stevie Barr with Friends / CD / 2007
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Artist
Stevie Barr with Friends
Format
CD
Genre
Folk
Label Name
Arhoolie
Release Date
2007 07 31
Song List
1: Lonesome Road Blues (3:01)
2: Fortune (2:16)
3: He Was Born in Bethlehem (2:40)
4: Sally Ann (2:55)
5: Bye Bye Blues (2:37)
6: It's Sinful to Flirt (3:14)
7: Old Jimmy Sutton (2:26)
8: Viagra Blues (2:54)
9: No Place Like Father's House (1:58)
10: Uncle Joe (4:15)
11: Mary in the Wild Moore (2:44)
12: At Calvary (2:08)
13: Durang's Hornpipe (2:11)
14: Barbara Allen (6:42)
15: Sweet Sunny South (4:15)
16: Train #1262 (3:09)
17: Dust on the Bible (2:23)
18: Shane's Reel (2:24)
19: I Wonder If I Done My Best for Jesus (5:20)
20: Foggy Mountain Breakdown (3:36)
21: Leaving Grayson (2:08)
Style.Categories
Contemporary Bluegrass, Neo-Traditionalist Country, Contemporary Folk, Bluegrass, Old-Timey, Traditional Bluegrass
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First established on record as leader of the
bluegrass
band
No Speed Limit
, banjo player
Stevie Barr
went solo for the 2007 release
Along the Crooked Road
. It's not a conventional solo album in which the leader plays with a set or nearly set group of musicians, however. Instead, the 21 tracks were recorded with a rotating cast of friends from around his base of Galax, VA. It's not a conventional studio album, either, since -- in the words of
Arhoolie Records
founder
Chris Strachwitz
in the liner notes -- it was recorded "informally at various locations in contrast to formal or controlled studio settings." Also, while
Barr
handled banjo on all cuts, and most of them feature vocals,
Barr
himself doesn't sing, the vocal chores being shared by five of the musicians he used. It's an accomplished, straight-ahead
bluegrass
album, strongly weighted toward
traditional
songs. The presence of several different combinations of musicians yields more variety than many
traditional bluegrass
albums bear, and at times the material gets into
gospel
, though usually it's in a more standard
bluegrass
mold. Even the song titled
"Viagra Blues,"
written by
Jesse Lovell
(who sings and plays guitar on some of the album), turns out to be a fairly unsurprising bluesy instrumental. Some of the other song selections could have been more imaginative, however; it's unlikely many listeners are pining for more versions of
"Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
and
"Barbara Allen."
~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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