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Song list:
Harlan
One Small Miracle
Writing's On The Wall
Bees in the Hive
Let Me Be Your Escort
Couch Potato
Step Into the Water
Beneath Still Waters
It Was in my Mind to Wander
Hello Operator
Joan Henry
No Matter

Pinecastle Records PRC 1129
5108 S. Orange Ave
Orlando, FL 32809
www.pinecastle.com
copyright2003

Dixie and Tom T. Hall have been influential on many of the new bluegrass bands, providing encouragement and the gift of some special songs for each group. Their "Harlan" is a great opening cut for the band, and has the hard-driving banjo and fiddle combination with great harmony vocals that are a hallmark with this band. "Joan Henry" is a song dedicated to John Henry's steel-driving daughter who laid track from here to heaven in the finest family tradition. Following in the tradition of Rhonda Vincent and Dolly Parton, Michelle Nixon also writes many of the songs for the band. Her "Let Me Be Your Escort" tells the story of an angel leading a solider to heaven and her "The Writing's On The Wall" and "No Matter" are love songs with a dose of bittersweet reality.