Circles Around Me | ||||
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Released | October 20, 2009 | |||
Genre | Bluegrass | |||
Label | Sugar Hill | |||
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Circles Around Me is an album by American bluegrass mandolin player Sam Bush, released through Sugar Hill Records in October 2009.
Reception
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The album earned Bush a Grammy Award nomination for Best Bluegrass Album.[2]
In his Allmusic review, music critic William Ruhlman wrote that the album "makes a good demonstration of Sam Bush's continuing mastery of the mandolin and his own niche in the bluegrass scene."[1]
Track listing
[edit]- "Circles Around Me" (Jeff Black, Sam Bush) – 3:55
- "Diamond Joe" (Traditional) – 3:40
- "You Left Me Alone" (Tom Gray, Jerry Stuart) – 3:07
- "The Old North Woods" (Bush) – 4:10
- "Roll on Buddy, Roll On" (Teddy Wilburn, Doyle Wilburn) – 2:41
- "The Ballad of Stringbean and Estelle" (Bush, Guy Clark, Verlon Thompson) – 4:45
- "Blue Mountain" (Bush) – 6:09
- "Out on the Ocean" (Pete Kuykendall) – 2:54
- "Gold Heart Locket" (Black) – 4:17
- "Junior Heywood" (Bush, Edgar Meyer) – 6:36
- "Midnight on the Stormy Deep" (Traditional) – 3:52
- "Apple Blossom" (Traditional) – 1:35
- "Souvenir Bottles" (Bush, John Cowan, Stephen F. Brines) – 8:23
- "Whisper My Name/Hot Tamales" (Ebo Walker) – 7:23
Personnel
[edit]- Jerry Douglas - resonator guitar
- Cornelia Heard - violin
- Byron House - acoustic bass, electric bass
- Courtney Johnson - banjo
- Del McCoury - guitar, vocals
- Edgar Meyer - bass
- George Meyer - violin
- Stephen Mougin - guitar, mandolin, vocals
- Scott Vestal - banjo
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ruhlman, William. "Circles Around Me > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
- ^ "53rd Annual Grammy Awards nominees list". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved December 5, 2010.