| Product Summary | | Label: Cbs/epic/wtg Records | | UPC: 00886970668620 | | Release Date: 3/20/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 204108652 | | Item#: M3GPN5 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 27033 | Format:  CD |
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| Although Ricky Skaggs gets top billing, it's 1980s adult contemporary star Bruce Hornsby who does most of the work on their bluegrass-themed duet album, Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby . Hornsby wrote five of the album's eleven songs, including a remake of his early hit "Mandolin Rain," and his jazz-influenced piano playing is at the heart of these largely acoustic tunes. The duo shines, though, on the handful of traditional folk and bluegrass songs, such as "Hills of Mexico" and "Across the Rocky Mountain," but it's a giggly reworking of Rick James's "Super Freak" that reveals the casual looseness and good humor of the session as a whole
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Ricky Skaggs (banjo); Bruce Hornsby (piano); Cody Kilby (guitar); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Jim Mills (banjo); Andy Leftwich, Stuart Duncan (fiddle); Mark Fain (bass guitar); John Anderson, Paul Brewster (background vocals). | | Although Ricky Skaggs gets top billing, it's 1980s adult contemporary star Bruce Hornsby who does most of the work on their bluegrass-themed duet album, RICKY SKAGGS AND BRUCE HORNSBY. Hornsby wrote five of the album's eleven songs, including a remake of his early hit "Mandolin Rain," and his jazz-influenced piano playing is at the heart of these largely acoustic tunes. The duo shines, though, on the handful of traditional folk and bluegrass songs, such as "Hills of Mexico" and "Across the Rocky Mountain," but it's a giggly reworking of Rick James's "Super Freak" that reveals the casual looseness and good humor of the session as a whole. |
Producer: Ricky Skaggs; Bruce Hornsby |
Engineer: Wayne Pooley; Brent King; Lee Groitzch |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/20/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 06686 | | Label : Legacy Recordings | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 48m : 52s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00886970668620 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Entertainment Weekly (p.60)
- "Together, they prove bluegrass' structures were ripe for loosening up after all." -- Grade: BGlobal Rhythm (Publication)
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- "[B]eautiful, vibrant and sure to please roots obsessives, casual country fans and just about anybody else. A great record." |
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