2018 - Comprising Sammy Lind on fiddle, Caleb Klauder on mandolin, Reeb Willms on guitar and Nadine Landry on bass, the old-time four-piece string band Foghorn Stringband are based in Portland Oregon, but variously hail from Washington, Quebec and Minneapolis. Rock Island Grange, their ninth album, is named for and recorded at the Orcas Grange, a historic building on Orcas Island where Klauder grew up. A 19-track collection of traditional bluegrass/mountain music songs and tune, it opens in fine style with a razor-slashing psychopath, murder, marital disloyalty, police brutality, dismemberment and…a train in the fiddle flurrying form of Reuben’s Train (watch the live Deep End Session below), proceeding to the first of the instrumentals, a medley of Rose In The Mountain/Tennessee Girls that ably demonstrates why the quartet is regarded as among the very best exponents of their chosen genre.
19 Songs
- REUBEN'S TRAIN
- ROSE IN THE MOUNTAIN / TENNESSEE GIRLS
- PRETTY FAIR MISS OUT IN THE GARDEN
- GRIGSBY'S HORNPIPE
- THE VIOLET AND THE ROSE
- LONESOME HOMESICK BLUES
- NATURAL BRIDGE BLUES
- AIN'T GOT TIME
- BANKS OF OLD TENNESSEE / KENNESAW MOUNTAIN RAG
- ONLY THE LONELY
- JAKE'S GOT THE BELLYACHE
- MON VIEUX WAGON
- RIDIN' IN AN OLD MODEL T
- LONESOME VALLEY
- TRAIN ON THE ISLAND
- GOING HOME
- GIVE ME THE ROSES
- ROSE CONNOLLY
- THE ROSE WALTZ
