Britt returns with solo disc

"I am so grateful to Mountain Home for believing in me and allowing me to create this music that I'm so very proud of," Britt said. "The musicians and singers that I assembled for this project sound so good together. We first played in an all-star configuration at the Station Inn (in Nashville), and it was so much fun that I wanted to continue that in the studio. These guys and gals truly poured their hearts and souls into these songs, and I cannot wait for the world to hear them."

The team includes fiddler Jason Carter and his one-time Travelin' McCourys/Del McCoury Band mate Alan Bartram (acoustic bass, harmony vocals), singer-guitarist John Meador (Vince Gill Band) and Jonathan Dillon on mandolin, supplemented with contributions by East Nash Grass's Jeff Partin (resonator guitar), Dillon's Red Camel Collective bandmate and award-winning singer, Heather Berry Mabe, Balsam Range's Caleb Smith, The Isaacs' Ben Isaacs and old-time banjoist Tina Steffey.

Britt has put together an artfully varied collection, starting with the opener "What Kind of Memory Will You Be." There's burnished bluegrass, including the driving "Heading Back to Heartache," the classic-sounding gospel quartet, "Stone of Faith" and the mournful Caleb Smith lead, "Bend In The River," along with a pair of banjo-led instrumentals "Welcome to New York" and Britt's own brooding "Streets of Wenatchee."

Britt, a North Carolina native, was in the all-female Petticoat Junction; North Carolina's New Vintage; Lou Reid & Carolina, and Alan Bibey & Grasstowne, along with work fronting her own Gena Britt Band. In 2012, she helped to found Sister Sadie, the GRAMMY-nominated group with whom she continues to record and perform today.

Britt has won seven IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) awards, beginning with 2001's Recorded Event of The Year in 2001 for her work on Mark Newton's multi-artist tribute to women in bluegrass, "Follow Me Back To the Fold." Other IBMA honors include Recorded Event of the Year in 2006 for "Back to the Well" by the Daughters of Bluegrass; Album of the Year in 2006 for her contribution to "A Celebration of Life for Musicians Against Childhood Cancer" and, with Sister Sadie, three Vocal Group of the Year Awards (2019, 2020, 2021) along with the organization's top Entertainer of the Year Award in 2020. She is also the recipient of a Banjo Player of the Year trophy from the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music.