Name: The Steeldrivers
Brand: Rounder Records
SKU: 17987
Price: 10.26 GBP
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Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

The Steeldrivers

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Album: The Steeldrivers
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Blue Side Of The Mountain	More Info...	3:28
2)	Drinkin' Dark Whiskey	More Info...	2:54
3)	Midnight Train To Memphis	More Info...	3:03
4)	Midnight Tears	More Info...	2:56
5)	If You Can't Be Good, Be Gone	More Info...	2:30
6)	If It Hadn't Been For Love	More Info...	3:59
7)	Hear The Willow Cry	More Info...	2:58
8)	Sticks That Made Thunder	More Info...	4:09
9)	East Kentucky Home	More Info...	2:37
10)	To Be With You Again	More Info...	3:34
11)	Heaven Sent	More Info...	3:48
2)	Drinkin' Dark Whiskey	More Info...	0:03
3)	Midnight Train to Memphis	More Info...	0:03
4)	Midnight Tears	More Info...	0:03
5)	If You Can't Be Good, Be Gone	More Info...	0:02
6)	If It Hadn't Been for Love	More Info...	0:04
7)	Hear the Willow Cry	More Info...	0:03
8)	Sticks That Made Thunder	More Info...	0:04
9)	East Kentucky Home	More Info...	0:02
10)	To Be With You Again	More Info...	0:03
11)	Heaven Sent	More Info...	0:03

Album: The Steeldrivers
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Blue Side Of The Mountain	More Info...	3:28
2)	Drinkin' Dark Whiskey	More Info...	2:54
3)	Midnight Train To Memphis	More Info...	3:03
4)	Midnight Tears	More Info...	2:56
5)	If You Can't Be Good, Be Gone	More Info...	2:30
6)	If It Hadn't Been For Love	More Info...	3:59
7)	Hear The Willow Cry	More Info...	2:58
8)	Sticks That Made Thunder	More Info...	4:09
9)	East Kentucky Home	More Info...	2:37
10)	To Be With You Again	More Info...	3:34
11)	Heaven Sent	More Info...	3:48
2)	Drinkin' Dark Whiskey	More Info...	0:03
3)	Midnight Train to Memphis	More Info...	0:03
4)	Midnight Tears	More Info...	0:03
5)	If You Can't Be Good, Be Gone	More Info...	0:02
6)	If It Hadn't Been for Love	More Info...	0:04
7)	Hear the Willow Cry	More Info...	0:03
8)	Sticks That Made Thunder	More Info...	0:04
9)	East Kentucky Home	More Info...	0:02
10)	To Be With You Again	More Info...	0:03
11)	Heaven Sent	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

Personnel: Chris Stapleton (vocals, guitar); Tammy Rogers (vocals, fiddle); Mike Fleming (vocals).
Audio Mixer: Luke Wooten.
Liner Note Authors: Jon Weisberger; Tim O'Brien.
Recording information: Sound Emporium - Studio A.
Author: Buddy Miller.
Photographer: David McClister.
A fairly obvious recipe on paper is rendered grippingly powerful by singer-guitarist Chris Stapleton's baritone yowl and a band of fleet-fingered bluegrass pros (banjoist Richard Bailey, bassist/vocalist Mike Fleming, mandolinist/vocalist Mike Henderson, and fiddler/vocalist Tammy Rogers). A lot of records of this sort go for a similar gritty Americana thing, but this impressive debut pulls it off by spiking the traditional milieu with undeniable sex appeal, a serious rarity in bluegrass (listen to his smoldering harmonies with Rogers on the standout "Blue Side of the Mountain"). Fans took note--this record logged very impressive digital sales and snared both Grammy and International Bluegrass Music Association awards.

Professional Reviews

Down Beat (p.79) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[G]uitarist Chris Stapleton sings with the depth of a Southern bluesman....[With] excellent original tunes about redemption, prison and the vagaries of love."

Harp (magazine) (p.107) - "[T]he STeelDrivers are bluegrass through and through, from their instrumetnal virtuosity to their classic high-low harmonies to their music itself..."