Tracklist

#1 Up The North Fork
#2 Pearls From The River
#3 Road To Catawba

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Street Date:
October 14th, 2003
Ship Date:
October 6th, 2003
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Street Date:
October 14th, 2003
Ship Date:
October 6th, 2003

First new music in a couple of years from the trio, focusing entirely on their acoustic side - a single session recorded in Virginia by Mikel Dimmick. "Up the North Fork" is a trio for banjo, baritone banjo, and cello - after the snaky bowed introduction, the fast thwacking of the banjos and forcefully strummed cello take over and whip up a storm. The other two tracks are lengthy ragas (one in C, one in D) with the virtuoso modal guitar of Jack Rose front and center. "Pearls From The River" features Rose on 12-string, dueling with Mike Gangloff on esraj. Pat Best's thick, sonorous double bass bowing anchors the duet between the lightning thrumming and plucking of Rose's guitar and Gangloff's arcing, sharply bowed half-time melody. "Road To Catawba" has Rose on 6-string, with Gangloff moving to tamboura, for a full exploration of the D Lydian mode. Mmmm, D Lydian mode… Best's bass is again the foundation, with whistling overtones rising from his bow over the low drone.