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The Rocky Creek Ramblers

by The Rocky Creek Ramblers

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Jonesboro 03:09
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Cockleburr 02:43
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Here's 22 tracks of hard-hitting transitional old-time tunes and songs inspired by the sounds that used to be heard at fiddlers conventions around the Southeast. It's a pile of well-rendered fiddle tunes with rock-solid backup.

The Rocky Creek Ramblers conjure up a delicious throwback sound—earthy fiddle, percolating three-finger banjo, spanking mandolin chops, and tasty guitar and bass runs. Cutting his teeth in the scene around Galax, Va, Ken Landreth delivers a three-finger banjo style that weaves perfectly around Joseph's fiddle. The Jims (Nelson and Collier) lay a fine foundation on guitar and mandolin. Joe Dejarnette's bass rounds it all out for a thick, driving string band sound.

The album includes familiar and tantalizingly unfamiliar tunes drawn from some of our favorite fiddlers (listed in a pdf of liner notes)—folks like Otis Burris, Bob Douglas, Tommy Magness, Leslie Keith, Red Wilson, and Roy Wooliver. A couple of songs and banjo/ fiddle duets add some texture and allow everyone to catch their breath.

Recorded at Studio 808a in Floyd, VA, after a few days playing and sweating at the Mount Airy Fiddlers Convention in 2016 and in a final session in 2019, this album captures the drive and spontaneity of a hot jam session at a summer fiddlers convention. It's a dancer's delight.

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released February 5, 2021

The Rocky Creek Ramblers are:
Ken Landreth - banjo
Jim Nelson - guitar and vocals
Jim Collier - mandolin and vocals
Joseph Decosimo - fiddle and vocals
Joe Dejarnette - bass

recorded, mixed and mastered @Studio808a by Joe Dejarnette

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The Rocky Creek Ramblers Mount Airy, North Carolina

The Rocky Creek Ramblers play classic, hard-driving bluegrass/old-time music inspired by the classic transitional bands that mixed old-time and old school bluegrass approaches into a heady string band cocktail. The band came together over annual sessions at the Mt. Airy Fiddlers Convention. Composed of heavy duty players, the band dishes up a heaping helping of heavy duty fiddle music. ... more

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