Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands - The Golden West

On The Golden West, with her five-piece band the Right Hands, Laurie Lewis keeps to a more basic, traditional bluegrass, mountain style. It is very much a band-album, with long associate Tom Rozum (mandolin, mandola) sharing lead vocals, guitarist Scott Huffman contributing to the vocals and also writing Hard Luck in Heaven.

Together they provide a driving sound when required - Bill Monroe's title tune - or slower, emotional picking as on John Hartford's Goodbye Waltz. The charm and beauty of both folk and bluegrass is at the forefront of every song on The Golden West.

Linda Ronstadt adds harmony vocals to the well-known Rank Stranger and Laurie's self-penned A Hand to Hold. It all adds up to exceptional rootsy music that should appeal to old timey and bluegrass fans alike. ~ Full Review in Maverick Magazine.

• Your Eyes
• Burley Coulter's Song For Kate Helen Branch
• 99 Year Blues
• Before The Sun Goes Down
• Live Forever
• Rank Stranger
• Bury Me In Bluegrass
• The Golden West
• A Hand To Hold
• River Under The Road
• Hard Luck In Heaven
• The Mourning Clock
• Goodbye Waltz