Balsam Range shows its' "Moxie and Mettle"

The album includes the band's four most recent singles, each of which topped the bluegrass charts, and a new track heading for radio.

"Highway Side," the new song, is about a driver passing a hitchhiker to a propulsive bluegrass beat that delivers the song's message — "I wonder how did he get there...Something tells me he and I are the same" — through harmonies, picking and a sing-along chorus.

In "Richest Man," the same observation of shared humanity is revealed through a contrast between material wealth and other kinds of abundance. This was the band's first single since their chart-topping "Aeonic" album.

Other songs include chart toppers "Rivers, Rains and Runaway Trains" and the title track.

Balsam Range is Buddy Melton (fiddle, lead and tenor vocals); Darren Nicholson (mandolin, octave mandolin, lead vocals, baritone and low tenor vocals); Dr. Marc Pruett (banjo); Tim Surrett (bass, Dobro, baritone and lead vocals); and Caleb Smith (guitar, lead & baritone vocals). The five original members are all acoustic musicians and singers from western North Carolina. Since forming in 2007, the group has garnered 13 IBMA awards.