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Artist
Barbara Lamb
12+ albums
folkcountryviolinbluegrassfiddle
about
Barbara Lamb (born in Seattle, Washington, on January 14, 1958) is an American folk musician. She has been featured soloist with The Laura Love Band, was a former member of The John Cowan Band and Asleep At The Wheel, and was founding member of Ranch Romance Principally recorded at Champagne Studios, Nashville, Tennessee and Ironwood Studio, Seattle, Washington, her solo album was Lamb's declaration of independence upon her departure from Ranch Romance, an (almost) all-woman retro country swing outfit that had recorded several very fine albums for the Sugar Hill label. Her former bandmates join her here on several tracks that could have easily been included on a Ranch Romance album, including a debonair rendition of the Texas swing classic "Panhandle Rag" and a charming Tex-Mex number titled "So What." Elsewhere on the program she returns to her bluegrass roots, accompanied by banjoist Tony Trischka, guitarist Scott Nygaard, and mandolinist Sam Bush, among others. The program opens with a burning performance of "Sally Goodin," and it also includes a great fiddle and banjo arrangement of "Katy Hill" and a cute fiddle-and-bongo arrangement of "Ducks on the Millpond." She also gets good and countrified in collaboration with Tim O'Brien on "A Good Woman's Love" and on a slow waltz entitled "Montana Glide." The variety works very well; this is an excellent album. ~ Rick Anderson Personnel: Barbara Lamb (vocals, fiddle, twin fiddle, piano); Zelda Quackenbush (vocals); Jo Miller (
