I heard this CD in preview on CD Baby and just had to own a copy.Bluegrass/Rock and even a little English folksy stuff and a sharp moaning fiddle .Great music for driving along the motorways... Great music at anytime.The vocals on Poor Ellen Smith just have that Psycho edge.Truly fierce stuff and I love it.
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If you take roots music pretty-much straight up, the aptly named A.P. Carter Highway will deliver the goods. Tapping a nice mix of traditional tunes and covers of material (by Jean Ritchie, Gillian Welch/David Rawlings, among others) San Francisco's All Wrecked Up throw a hefty dose of musicianship and respect for the genre at their audience. The mostly fine production pulls the acoustic instruments and bluegrass basics into the modern era. A take on Dock Boggs' "Prodigal Son" stumbles somewhat on a guitar attack that seems out of place, but the grizzled vocal of Chris Ereneta saves the day. Christa Dahlstrom furnishes many of the tracks with vocals, and her fine voice is especially well-fitted to "House Carpenter," made wistfully eerie by Chris Knoth's e-bowing. The band has circled in San Francisco's resurgent school of traditional bluegrass for quite some time, unfortunately eclipsed by the more recent freak-folkers such as Devendra Banhardt, Six Organs of Admittance and Joanna Newsom.
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First heard this group live on a Berkeley, CA radio station.  Lots of energy, great diversity in the cuts, think they should be a little wilder on their CDs because they knocked my socks off live - but it still is a terrific DC.  Recommend this to anyone liking this blend of country, blues terrific tunes.  Great guitar, fiddle and banjo and lots more.
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