Mountain Heart - Wide Open *

Artist:

Mountain Heart

UPC:

669890201623

Description:

Mountain Heart: Clay Jones, Adam Steffey, Steve Gulley, Barry Abernathy, Jim VanCleve, Jason Moore.
Personnel: Steve Gulley (vocals, guitar); Barry Abernathy (vocals, banjo, background vocals); Adam Steffey (vocals, mandolin); Jim VanCleve (guitar, fiddle, background vocals); Mark Bright (guitar); Eric Darken, Garett Buell (percussion).
Recording information: 1808 Studios; Emerald Studios; Sound Kitchen; Starstruck Studios.
Photographer: Erick Anderson .
Wide Open, the third collection for Skaggs Family Records from lauded gospel-bluegrass collective Mountain Heart, begins appropriately with a blistering road song called "Traveler`s Prayer." It`s a fitting opener for a band that`s managed to win over legions of both secular and non-secular listeners since the late-`90s. Relying on impeccable musicianship and relentless touring, the group, with this the fifth record into their career, have won numerous awards, and rightly so. Producer Mark Bright (Rascal Flatts, Sara Evans) gives Wide Open a crisp, clean, and subtly commercial sheen that highlights the group`s spiritual ("God and Everybody," "Miracle") and straight-picking sensibilities ("I`m Just Here to Ride the Rain"), especially on fiddler Jimmy VanCleve`s spur-snapping instrumental "Deadwood." ~ James Christopher Monger

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Traveler`s Prayer
2. God and Everybody
3. I Remember You
4. Down in the Valley
5. We Are
6. Wide Open
7. Here I Am
8. Deadwood
9. Miracle
10. Town That Isn`t There
11. I`m Just Here to Ride the Train
12. Everybody but Me

Album Information

Release Date:

02/14/2006

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Country

Subgenre:

Bluegrass

Label:

Hollywood

Producer:

Mark Bright; Mark Bright

Catalog Number:

SKFR 2016

Original Release Year:

2006

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

43 : 19

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