With a new album, Never Say Goodbye, due at the end of next month, Rebel Records has pushed out another new single from traditional bluegrass specialists, High Fidelity.
This latest reaches deep into the catalog of The Delmore Brothers, who were big in early country music in the 1930s and ’40s. It’s called The Lonesome Road, and despite the band’s founding mission of preserving the sound of bluegrass from the ’50s and ’60s, lead singer and guitarist Jeremy Stephens says this one is new to bluegrass.
“This is our 100% High Fidelity arrangement of a song that, to our knowledge, has never been done in bluegrass before. We hope you like it!”
Of course, they give it a fresh bluegrass treatment, with Jeremy singing in duet harmony with his wife, fiddler Corrina Rose Logston Stephens. They discovered that The Lonesome Road goes back to 1927, when it was recorded by Gene Austin, who wrote the song with Nathaniel Shilkret. The Delmores picked it up and cut it in 1938.
The bluegrass is solidified here by Kurt Stephenson’s banjo and Daniel Amick’s mandolin. It makes for a right peppy grass number.
Check it out.
The Lonesome Road is available now from popular download and streaming services online, and to radio programmers via AirPlay Direct.
Pre-saves and pre-orders for the Never Say Goodbye project, releasing October 30, are likewise enabled.
