Album Notes

The Road Back Home takes you on a journey through foot-stomping dance tunes, haunting melodies, and tribal adventures to the Celtic-Appalachian roots of the Virginia highlands.

This is the Possum Ridge String Band’s second album and their “excellent rehearsal-to-performance ratio” is paying off. You can tell these guys are comfortable playing together and they are having fun – an infectious fun that will rub off on you.

The band members are: Whit Whitfield (hammered dulcimer, autoharp, bodhran, tambourine), Sam Driver (guitar), EJ Burke (fiddle, mandolin, banjo, guitar, vocals), Peter Bramley (banjo, tenor banjo, anglo concertina), Neal Brooks (bass, didjeridoo), and Rannie Winn (whistles).

Their pleasant, rough-hewn sound takes you back to a simpler time and place. This locally-made free-range music is a natural stress-reliever and has been shown (by the Possum Ridge department of public health) to be good for what ails you.