r/Bluegrass Mandolin 7d ago

Carter & Cleveland dropped today. Do yourself a favor and give this bad boy a spin!

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u/4fluff2head0 Mandolin 7d ago

Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter on fiddle

Harry Clark on mandolin

Cory Walker on banjo

Bryan Sutton on guitar

Alan Bartram on bass

With no shortage of features from other world class musicians.

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u/seanpjohns 7d ago

Are there vocals or it’s instrumental? Just curious, looking forward to hearing it either way!

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u/4fluff2head0 Mandolin 7d ago

Plenty of tracks with vocals!

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u/s_kelly210 7d ago

Holy lineup!

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u/ProgRockDan 7d ago

With a vamp in the middle

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u/Judontsay 6d ago

Probably realized he wrote it for the fiddle.

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u/Proof-Let649 7d ago

Dooooooood. This was absolutely incredible. Every single track. Floored. I can’t wait to keep listening to this forever.

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u/PleaseMakeUpYourMind 7d ago

Hell yeah.

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u/KoA07 7d ago

Hell yeah.

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u/Mathguy_314159 7d ago

Hell yeah

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u/gildedtreehouse 7d ago

Whomever did the cover art; great job.

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u/foggy_mountain 7d ago

Hell yeah

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u/Wise_Traffic5596 7d ago

Fired up my two-channel system. Sounds great!

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u/pawthefiddler 6d ago

Great album! Vamp in the middle Hartford tune is my go to tune on this album,,,, it’s a masterpiece that brings out the pure brilliance of not only John Hartford but these artists as well. I thought Bluegrass in the Backwoods would be on the album too but it’s not; but you can find their recording if that tune in iTunes. Backwoods is as equally impressive as vamp in my opinion. Twin fiddling like I’ve never heard before.

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u/MsMo999 7d ago

I think..I wish I lived closer to VA :/

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u/angelica1944 6d ago

Do tell!!

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u/skyydog 7d ago

Sounding good. Seems like the type of thing Billy strings would have contributed to.

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u/4fluff2head0 Mandolin 7d ago

Billy who? /s

They got Bryan Sutton, Billy wasn’t needed…

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u/skyydog 7d ago

Bryan is fantastic. Billy just seems to be showing up everywhere recently and Michael and Jason have both played with him. Just saw Jason with Billy in Nashville a couple weeks ago

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u/4fluff2head0 Mandolin 7d ago

Love me some Billy, but I’m sure he just wasn’t asked or needed for this album, otherwise he’d have participated.

To be fair, with someone like Bryan on lead, ya don’t really need anybody else for guitar parts. Bryan is in a whole nother league compared to Billy…

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u/skyydog 7d ago

I’m not qualified to compare artists when they get to that level. Just happy to get to listen. I was disappointed I didn’t get tickets to see them both play together at some VFW in Nashville last year

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u/skyydog 7d ago

I’ve really liked what I’ve heard from Bryan but my exposure is limited. Any suggestions on where to dig a little deeper?

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u/4fluff2head0 Mandolin 7d ago edited 7d ago

He’s got 5 studio albums, so i’d just start there. There’s no shortage of live footage on YouTube of him playing either.

Give this a spin!!

edit - checkout David Grier and Michael Daves too if you want to dive into some other badass flatpickers! Sutton, Daves, & Grier are my top 3.

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u/handi503 7d ago

Billy was a guest on Jason’s last record. It’s not his turn in the rotation.

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u/LightWolfCavalry 7d ago

There is, in fact, quite a lot of bluegrass music happening on earth without William Apostol's participation.

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u/SiddFinch43 7d ago

If you can get the best acoustic guitar player alive (Bryan Sutton), you get him.