Mountain Home Music Company

07/19/2025

Thanks to East Portland Blog for sharing "Everybody's Got Their Nine Pound Hammer" from Ashby Frank 🎶

Music Ashby Frank meditates on the burdens of daily life By admin on Sunday, July 6, 2025 After the semi-acoustic funk of his Dire Straits cover, “The Bug,” Mountain Home Music Company’s Ashby Frank is heading back to hard core bluegrass turf with a blazing meditation on the burdens of d...

07/18/2025

"Tom and Jerry" from Andy Leftwich will be released in one week! 🎶

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07/18/2025

"Mama Took Her Ring Off Yesterday" from Vickie Vaughn Band will be out in one week! 🎶

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07/18/2025

Unspoken Tradition 's album, Resilience, will be out in one week! 🎶

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07/18/2025

🎶 NEW MUSIC 🎶

For a follow-up to their blazing take on the traditional “Cacklin’ Hen,” fiddlers Deanie Richardson ( Sister Sadie ) and Kimber Ludiker ( Della Mae ) have applied their innovative twin fiddling approach to a 1950s composition that helped to expand the harmonic horizons of bluegrass. Written by the late, famously idiosyncratic mandolin master, Frank Wakefield, "New Camptown Races" is further testimony to the powerful creativity and impeccable ex*****on the duo have brought to their Mountain Home Music Company collaboration.

Once again, Richardson, who holds the IBMA’s Fiddle Player of the Year trophy, takes the lead, offering up an array of variations on Wakefield’s melody that Ludiker harmonizes note for note and stroke by stroke of the bow with nearly unthinkable precision and passion. Interludes are supplied by award-winning labelmate Kristin Scott Benson (banjo), mandolinist Tristan Scroggins (Missy Raines & the New Hip) and IBMA Guitar Player of the Year Cody Kilby (Travelin’ McCourys), while Hasee Ciaccio (Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals) keeps the ensemble anchored to a brisk tempo. With such an abundance of talent, the track’s 3+ minutes race by in kaleidoscopic fashion, right down to the brief “breakdown” that signals the virtuosic performance’s impending finale.

“We have long loved Frank Wakefield’s great mandolin tune,” notes Ludiker, “and we set out to create a twin fiddle reimagining of this classic Bb tune with the spirit of a high-energy late-night jam.”

Adds Richardson, “‘New Camptown Races’ is a song that Kimber and I played together last year, and it went so well we knew it was one we wanted on this record. I went to a recording from one of my fiddle heroes, Randy Howard on this. I will admit, I did steal a few licks from Randy on this one. Love that my dear friend is with us on this track.”

"New Camptown Races" is streaming in Dolby Atmos spatial audio on Apple Music, Amazon Music and TIDAL .

Listen to it here: https://clg.lnk.to/drkl-NCR

07/18/2025

🎶 NEW MUSIC 🎶

As they celebrate the formation 30 years ago of the band, Chris Jones & The Night Drivers have turned once again to the country flavor that has served Jones so well through those decades. “How Small of Me” wraps a characteristically complex meditation in the mid-tempo lilt of a mid-60s classic from the likes of George Jones.

Indeed, to accentuate the feel, the bluegrass singer/songwriter reached out to an old pal who has portrayed Jones on the stage — and has his own distinctive voice, too. “Jim Lauderdale and I have been friends for decades now,” Chris notes, “but this is the first time we have ever sung together on a recording, so I’m really happy about this.”

“Meanwhile,” he adds, “I co-wrote the song with John McCutcheon, somebody I first met when I was a teenager, and though more recently, he’s somebody who the band and I have performed with a few times at the Walnut Valley Festival in Kansas, we had never written a song together until last year, and ‘How Small of Me’ is one of our first results.”

Still, even as Chris Scruggs (Marty Stuart’s Fabulous Superlatives) contributes plenty of swooning steel guitar, “How Small of Me” keeps a largely acoustic tone, kicking off with elegant mandolin from Night Driver Mark Stoffel, and underpinned by Jones’ acoustic guitar, touches of baritone ukulele by Night Driver Grace van’t Hof and upright bass from former Night Driver Jon Weisberger. It’s a fitting framework for a lyric that Jones and McCutcheon have worked to convey emotional nuance, especially in the memorable chorus that starts and ends the song:

How small of me to think the least of you
How blind was I, I never tried to see the longer view
Wounded by a mere mistake I almost set you free
How small of me

As for Lauderdale, he’s on the record as saying, “When I first heard Chris Jones over 25 years ago he became one of my favorite singers, and he continues to have one of the most distinctive and best voices in music, period. It’s like fine wine for the ears.”

"How Small of Me" is streaming in Dolby Atmos spatial audio on Apple Music , Amazon Music and TIDAL

Listen to it here: https://clg.lnk.to/cjnd-HowSmallofMe

07/17/2025

Congratulations to Lonesome River Band ’s own Mike Hartgrove on his induction into The National Fiddler Hall of Fame 🎻🎶

Mike was recognized alongside the legendary Rhonda Vincent and the late Lyman Enloe for their outstanding contributions to the world of fiddling and their dedication to preserving this timeless art form. Earlier this year, Mike received his 50-year pin from the Nashville Musicians AFW Local 257.

What an incredible and well deserved honor!

07/17/2025

ICYMI: Jaelee Roberts Music has an album coming soon! Thanks to Country Standard Time for sharing the news. 🎶

07/17/2025

Thanks to Eric Alper for sharing Danny Roberts Music 's latest song, "Letichfield"! 🎶

After an emotional Grand Ole Opry appearance that included a retirement sendoff of long-time Grascals bassist Terry Smith, the group’s leader, mandolinist Danny Roberts might have been in a nostalgic mood when he chose the next in his series of singles for Mountain Home Music Company. Named f...

07/16/2025

Thanks to Country Music News International for sharing Unspoken Tradition 's upcoming album, Resilience! 🎶

Unspoken Tradition's "Resilience": A Deep Dive into Bluegrass with Roots and Resolve at Country Music News International Magazine

07/16/2025

Follow Chris Jones & The Night Drivers on Spotify now 👇 so you can hear "How Small of Me" as soon as it's out this Friday! (7/18)

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