![]() ![]() Theres not a skippable track here, but there are a few that rise above the rest, at least in my subjective view. The instrumental performances from Stafford on guitar, Ron Stewart on banjo and fiddle, Barry Bales on bass, and Thomas Cassell on mandolin, are as sublime as the singing. All of the stories are told with beautiful, sometimes brutal, honesty, backed with emotion-packed melodies that are both stunning and simple at the same time. ![]() ![]() The songs also cover the waterfront of emotions, from working a job you can’t stand so you can pay the bills and the tortured road to sobriety, to the pain of Alzheimer’s and suicide. The Mountain Home release spans the duo’s career writing together, with two songs from 2003, and some more recent efforts. If this is the end of the collaboration of two of the best songwriters and singers in bluegrass, then what a farewell. The ultimate irony in Still Here, the stellar project from Tim Stafford and Steve Gulley, is that one of them no longer is.īut before Gulley died last year after a short fight with cancer, he and Stafford finished most of the work on this 11-song collection. ![]()
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