Another Monday, another start of the week with a Bluegrass tune, and ‘A Man Like Me‘ is everything a Bluegrass ballad of broken hearts and love gone wrong should be. There’s a great interplay between the lead vocal of Junior Sisk and Dan Tyminski’s elegant tenor vocal, on the lonesome blues embodied in the heartbroken lyrics “I walk the streets and wring my hands trying hard to understand / But I just can’t make myself believe / that it’s for good she’s gone / Why do I go through this pain day and night / it’s all the same / Heaven help a man like me who walks alone.” Yes indeed friends, even the honky-tonks offer no consolation, when you’ve lost love well, what is the point?
This new single from Junior Sisk is the second release from the upcoming album ‘If There’s a Will There’s a Way‘, which is set for release in the Autumn. Along with Junior on lead vocal, Dan Tyminski joins on tenor vocal, Heather Berry Mabe on guitar, Tony Mabe on banjo, Jonathan Dillon on mandolin, Curt Love on bass, and Tim Crouch on fiddle.
It is surely time for a little classic Bluegrass hard luck bad times drowning your sorrows in a honky-tonk song. And here's a perfect example of that genre with Junior Sisk reminiscing over the love that is gone. There's a cure though, for someone who can't "convince my heart she's…
Junior Sisk's new song 'Up There On The Hillside' draws on the darker side of tradition for a chilling recounting of a murder ballad. It's a song that came together quickly, as Junior Sisk explains "I came up with the tune first, then while we were in the studio, I…
Justin Moses has a new album slated for release on January 22nd, it's called 'Fall Like Rain' and 'The Lightning And The Thunder' is a stand-out track from it. It's a rollicking Bluegrass number featuring Dan Tyminski on vocals with Moses providing banjo and overdubbed dobro and fiddle. The rest…
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?