Bryan Bowers - By Heart

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Free Music Review: Beautiful "Auto-Parts" Music!
Hit: 5 Stars

There are some great songs included here. Three stand out for me: Bowers plays the Alfred Brumley standard "I'll Fly Away" more slowly and stately than many other players, giving it a hymn-like quality. In his demonstration of the different things he can do on the "auto-parts" with "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" he shows just what a virtuoso he is. (Some listener thought she heard him say he played auto-parts.) My favorite here is "Zen Gospel Singing." Some traditional bluegrass songs will make you suicidal-- try "Rank Stranger", for example-- so it's good to hear this lighthearted new song about going from a Baptist, being in church each Sunday praying, "as sure as you're born" to a Buddhist chanting mantras in "four-square harmony." This updated approach to bluegrass seems appropriate since many bluegrass fans now attend concerts wearing expensive, handmade cowboy boots and driving SUV's with monthly payments that are more than some early bluegrass singers probably made in a year. Several members of the original Seldom Scene band, John Duffy, Mike Auldridge and Tom Gray, sing on this number with Mr. Bowers in perfect harmony.

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