Adam Steffey - One More For The Road '2009

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Deep Rough
02. One More For The Road
03. Don't Lie To Me
04. Let Me Fall
05. Durang's Hornpipe
06. Warm Kentucky Sunshine
07. A Broken Heart Keeps Beatin'
08. Trusting In Jesus
09. Half Past Four
10. Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends
11. What Gives You The Right
12. Barnyard Playboy

Mandolin player, singer, and songwriter Adam Steffey was born in East Tennessee.
He started playing bluegrass mandolin when he was a boy and was playing in local
bands by the time he was in high school. Since the late '80s he's been one of
the most in-demand pickers in the business, and has played with some of the most
progressive bands in the progressive bluegrass scene including the Lonesome
River Band, Alison Krauss & Union Station, the bluegrass gospel band the Isaacs,
Mountain Heart, and the Dan Tyminski Band. He's won the International Bluegrass
Music Association's Mandolin Player of the Year award seven times and has played
on countless bluegrass, country, and old-time music albums. One More for the
Road is only Steffey's second album, but he comes across as a disciplined and
generous bandleader sharing the spotlight with Dan Tyminski, Ronnie Bowman, and
half-a-dozen other fine players. Steffey's original tunes are all killers,
suggesting a bright future as a songwriter should he choose that path. "Deep
Rough," one of the album's five instrumentals, is a traditional high lonesome
showcase for Steffey's mandolin, Stuart Duncan's fiddle, and Ron Block's banjo.
"What Gives You the Right" is a cheatin' song with one foot in traditional
country and one in progressive bluegrass. Steffey's warm deep tenor is perfect
for this tale of a marriage gone wrong. The traditional barn burner "Let Me
Fall" has been done by almost every bluegrass band; Steffey's arrangement is
taken at a vigorous tempo and features Tyminski's vocals, Duncan's fiddle, Ron
Stewart on banjo,and Steffey's blazing mandolin. He sings lead on Red Allen's
"Don't Lie to Me" and "Trusting in Jesus" a Ron Block tune Steffey first cut
when he was with Union Station. He also backs Ronnie Bowman on Kristofferson's
"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" laying back to let Bowman's heartfelt
playing take the spotlight.



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