ARTIST: Drew Emmitt
TITLE: Across The Bridge
LABEL: Compass Records
GENRE: Acoustic
TIME: 55:41 min
SIZE: 71,10 MB
RIP DATE: Nov-19-2005
RELEASE DATE: Jul-19-2005
WEBSITE: n/a
Track List:
01. All Night Ride 02:51
02. Meet Me In The Morning 06:44
03. Cross That Bridge 04:52
04. Big Ice 03:50
05. All That You Dream 05:40
06. This House 03:44
07. Up Where We Are 03:08
08. Listen To The Spirit 04:24
09. Silvanite 03:24
10. Reach Out For Me 05:02
11. Out In The Woods 07:15
12. The Awakening 04:47
Release Notes:
As lead singer and mandolinist for the acclaimed jam
band Leftover Salmon, Drew Emmitt is at least
partially responsible for putting Colorado on the
acoustic music map. His second solo album finds him
teamed up with an interesting array of bluegrass and
newgrass luminaries, including Del McCoury (harmony
vocals) and Ronnie McCoury (mandolin), Jim
Lauderdale (with whom Emmitt wrote several of the
songs on this program), fiddler Stuart Duncan, and
fiddler/mandolinist Sam Bush. Singer John Cowan is
here as well, but luckily he leaves most of his
customary faux-soul-man histrionics at the door,
contributing harmony vocals only. The material is a
combination of fairly traditional bluegrass (Emmitt
and Lauderdale's very fine "This House"),
newgrass-style instrumental originals ("Big Ice,"
"Silvanite"), and border-transgressing fusion
numbers (like an acoustic funk arrangement of Bob
Dylan's blues-based "Meet Me in the Morning" and a
laid-back arrangement of Little Feat's "All That You
Dream"). This album would be rated more highly if
Emmitt were a stronger singer, but as it is it's
sure to appeal to fans of his band and of
adventurous acoustic music in general.