Darrell Scott - Family Tree

This week we have the second album by a fine singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Nashville who usually makes his living working behind the scenes as a studio musician, songwriter and record producer. The CD is called Family Tree by Darrell Scott and it's a delightful, thoroughly literate, mostly acoustic collection of songs and character studies revolving around family members and relationships, Scott's and others.

Though Scott plays a lot of the string instruments on Family Tree, he is joined by some tasteful Nashville pickers, including mandolinist Sam Bush of New Grass Revival, and Viktor Krauss, the bass-playing brother of bluegrass phenom Alison Krauss. Two of Nashville's most ubiquitous players are also present, drummer Kenny Malone and the late bassist Roy Huskey, Jr., who passed away not long after the making of this CD. Fellow acclaimed singer-songwriter Tim O'Brien also appears, and co-wrote one of the songs that appears on Family Tree. ~ Full review by George Graham

Track Listing :

• My Father's House
• Rhonda's Last Ride
• Lazarus Dies Again
• Double-Headed Eagle
• Mahala
• When There's No One Around/Will The Circle Be Unbroken
• She Sews The World With Love
• I Never Had A Sister
• Family Tree
• Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
• The Hummingbird
• My Father's House (Reprise)

More information about Darrell Scott can be found at the Darrell Scott official website