Mike Compton: Rotten Taters

"From One to Twelve"
"Forever Has Come To an End"
"Wood Butcher's Walkabout"
"Hallie's Hornpipe"
"Dust and Ashes, He Rose from the Dead"
"Post Oak Grove"
"I'll Tell You about the Women"
"Rotten Taters"
"Yankee Gal"
"Midnight Hour Blues"
"Torment of Billie"
"Jimmy Fell Off the Wagon"
"How You Want Your Rollin' Done"
"Dear Honey"
"Jenny Lynn"

I was fortunate to have been able to share adjoining campsites with Mike Compton at both Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival and the Peaceful Valley Bluegrass Festival, back to back, in New York State when he first left The Nashville Bluegrass Band in 1989. I got to know him a little in those two weeks, which was a real pleasure. Mike was just a regular guy, living near Big Indian, NY who just happened to be a famous mandolin picker and who I also found to be a genuine person.

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Wayne Taylor: It's About Time

Wayne Taylor has been singing and playing bass with the band Blue Highway since its inception more than 17 years ago. Now he has released a wonderful solo CD, It's About Time, backed by an all-star cast of musicians and singers.

Ron Stewart plays both fiddle and banjo, Jesse Brock picks the mandolin, Tom Adams plays guitar, Buck White plays piano on one number, while Brooke and Darin Aldridge, and the Whites (Buck, Sharon and Cheryl) contribute outstanding harmony vocals. Eight of the twelve songs were written by Mr. Taylor, and a ninth was co-written by him with fiddler and lead vocalist Rachel Johnson Boyd.

Review: The Mid North - You're Right About The Stars

So the first guess on seeing the name of the band is "Where Is The Mid North?"; Pennsylvania? Connecticut? New Jersey? New York? It throws your geography for a loop, not to mention your ideas of the borders of bluegrass when you find the band hails from Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia.

They bill themselves as "Bluegrass/Americana," and they combine the spirit of old-time roots music, the energy