Tonight we went to “Bluegrass Underground” in the Cumberland Caverns, by McMinnville. The headliner was Tim O’Brien and Friends. It was a fabulous show, tight, utterly relaxed musical mastery and good humor. Tim is a great singer, a great songwriter, a great player, a great band leader, and a very funny guy. His friends, Bryan Sutton, Danny Barnes and Dennis Crouch, are the best of the best, guitar, banjo, and stand-up bass.
The warm-up act was Kindling Stones, an unusual, sublime duet consisting of Chris Moore who sings, writes, and plays bazouki and reed organ, and Mark Wingate a fabulous fiddle player, singer, and writer of tunes. Together they sang and played esoteric original material and 19th century Shaker songs. Beautiful harmonies, great playing.
It’s a once a month show, which is recorded and played on WSM in Nashville. Next month is Cadillac Sky,, so we are definitely going to that. I forgot to bring my camera, so these pics were taken with my crappy iPhone camera.
I can’t believe you called the iPhone camera crappy…where’s your allegiance, man?
BTW, that site is cavernous!