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The Rocky Creek Ramblers

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altacke Ken Landreth is one of my favorite banjo players of all time. This whole album is amazing! Makes me miss those hot sunny days in the Mt. Airy flatlands watching these guys shred. Favorite track: Raven's Gap.

Aaron Albrecht Great album - my favorite track is (6) Cockleburr

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1.	Sally Ann 02:16	buy track
2.	Red Apple Rag 02:25	buy track
3.	Echoes of the Ozarks 02:55	buy track
4.	Jonesboro 03:09	buy track
5.	June Apple 03:36 video	buy track
6.	Cockleburr 02:43	buy track
7.	Bob Wills Stomp 02:33	buy track
8.	Sail Away Ladies 02:41	buy track
9.	C Waltz 02:03	buy track
10.	Cumberland Gap 02:24	buy track
11.	New Five Cents 02:37	buy track
12.	Bill Cheatum 01:55 video	buy track
13.	Handsome Molly 03:31	buy track
14.	Mississippi Sawyer 03:01	buy track
15.	Bryson Higgins Tune 03:09	buy track
16.	Black Mountain Blues 02:51	buy track
17.	Ebenezer 02:24	buy track
18.	Bound to Ride 02:30	buy track
19.	Paddy on the Turnpike 02:07	buy track
20.	Blaine Smith's Piece 03:06	buy track
21.	Raven's Gap 02:37	buy track
22.	Roy Wooliver's Money Musk 02:01	buy track

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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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