For your auditioning pleasure this weekend: the self-titled work from the quartet, The Barr Brothers, and the latest from Darrell Scott...
Self-taught musicians, Brad and Andrew Barr, bring us music that drifts from intimate storytelling, to gritty blues, to lushly arranged folk and to quasi-electronica with an ambient feel. Nice. Very nice!
The Barr Brothers, "Beggar In the Morning" on the David Letterman Show, January 5th, 2012
http://youtu.be/boHhpY4_SEs
Troubador has a new one, Long Ride Home, a home-made record reflecting the country music, the real country music, that Scott , in Kentucky. The record is composed of Scott's works along with songs co-written by some pretty creative folks; country legends such as Guy Clark, Marcus Hummon, Jim Rushing, and Scott's dad, Wayne.
Other stellar writers and pickers joined Scott on this project: Charlie McCoy, Rodney Crowell, Patty Griffin and Tim O'Brien, who were "." It鈥檚 quite a record.
Darrell Scott performing the quintessential Kentucky mining song, 鈥�You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive鈥�
http://youtu.be/Su06XlGI-w8
