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Song list:
Shining Waters, Faultline, Leaving New Hampshire, Queen Anne's Lace, Breakpoint, A Greater Love, An Angel Forever, Slaterville, Minor Swing, Shark Tooth, Melee on the Backstretch, Jesus Loves Me.

: Skaggs Family Records SKFR-2009
PO Box 2478
Hendersonville, TN 37077
www.skaggsfamilyrecords.com
©2003

Andy Leftwich is the young fiddler with Ricky Skaggs' band, Kentucky Thunder, but his talents are not just on the fiddle. He started at six with the fiddle, added the mandolin at 12 and at 14 started playing the guitar. At the ripe old age of 22, he has mastered all three instruments and composed 10 of the 12 songs on this solo album. "Shining Waters" resembles a cascading stream with a persistent fiddle flowing past fast-paced mandolin and answering dobro. "Faultline" and "Breakpoint" feature Andy on mandolin and fiddle joined by Richard Bailey on banjo and Travis Alltop on guitar and the three of them add new meaning to hard driving and produce an earthquake of sound. "Leaving New Hampshire" has a great old-timey woody fiddle sound and "Queen Anne's Lace" has the lyrical mandolin as music box combined with a Celtic fiddle lilt. Andy adds a tribute to gypsy jazz with a turn with Django Reinhardt's "Minor Swing," and "Greater Love" has a romantic slow-paced dance. Li ke a bronco buster climbing in the saddle for the start of a thrilling "ride," Andy has grabbed the reins of a strong musical future.