Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Blue Highway - "Wind To the West"

I bought this cd a few years back. These guys are a relatively new bluegrass band and they are touch notch. Multiple IBMA winners, their musicianship and vocal talent is superb. There are several harmony laden tunes on this album, with "God Moves In a Windstorm" being my favorite. I like to try and pick out all of the parts and learn them, but I can typically on get three of the four. With bluegrass male harmonies you typically have a tenor that sing the melody with a high tenor harmony that is often above the melody. A bass part fills out the bottom and tucked in the middle is a low tenor or baritone, but since this can often follow the high tenor harmony an octave lower, I have trouble picking it out. Since the high tenor is typically far too high for me, I really only sing two parts. I saw these guys live at a local bluegrass festival a couple of years back and they were even better live than recorded. I listen to this album on a fairly regular basis and consider it one of the better of my collection. Find out more about Blue Highway at their website.

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