Wednesday, 27 December 2017

Corrina Rose Logston - Bluegrass Fiddler


Rating: 4/5

Review
Fine music and playing



As its name suggests, this is an album of bluegrass music where the fiddle is strongly to the fore throughout.  It's well played and enjoyable, although I find that a few tracks at a time are enough.

Corrina Rose Logston is a very fine player indeed.  She has delved into some of the less well-known parts of the bluegrass repertoire, which makes for an album with a very traditional feel which I like a lot.  Her band of guitar, mandolin, banjo and bass play excellently, most of the time in a support role but with the occasional lead sound which shows what fine musicians they all are.  There are just two vocal numbers (I Don't Blame You and Foggy Mountain Top) in which Logston does a good singing job, too. 

My only reservation about this disc is that in spite of the variety of waltzes, hornpipes, reels and so on, I find an entire album of fiddle music just a bit much.  However, in smaller chunks it's just great and you may not share my personal reservations.  Certainly it's an album of enjoyable music, excellently played by very good musicians and I can recommend it.

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