Gibson Brothers switch from Sugar Hill to Compass
The band released "Iron and Diamonds" last year. The new CD was produced by the two brothers plus bassist Mike Barber and features six originals (including a co-write with Bob DiPiero) and new songs by Shawn Camp/Paul Kennerly, Chet O'Keefe, Joe Newberry and Marshall Warwick, and a Tom Petty song, Angel Dream.
Recorded at the Compass Sound Studio, the players on the upcoming album include The Gibson Brothers' road band: Barber (bass), Clayton Campbell (fiddle) and Joe Walsh (mandolin), and guest resonator guitarist Mike Witcher (Missy Raines & The New Hip). "I was proud to look at ol' Waylon on the wall, knowing that he did his songs his own way with his own band in the very space we were recording," said Eric Gibson.
Staying true to their upstate New York farm boy roots, The Gibson Brothers recorded two agricultural-themed songs for this record, one written by Leigh (Bottomland) and one by Eric (Farm Of Yesterday). Bottomland, originally recorded for an unreleased Skaggs record, is given an old time treatment here and touches on the lives of sharecroppers. Farm Of Yesterday was written as a tribute to their parents and the family dairy farm that belonged to the Gibson family from 1865-2000. Eric showed the song to Leigh who was moved but said, "it might be too personal to put on the record." Eric replied, "Laying it out there could be the difference between a good record and a great record."
The Gibson Brothers have upcoming appearances at the Argyle Bluegrass Festival, the Old Settler's Music Festival, the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival and the Strawberry Park Bluegrass Festival.
More news for The Gibson Brothers
- 04/03/15: That will be Dr. Gibson
- 07/07/14: Gibson set compass for Rounder
- 08/14/13: The Gibson Brothers lead IBMA nomiantions
- 09/27/12: Gibsons, Sisk & band win IBMA honors
CD reviews for The Gibson Brothers
The family band is a longstanding conceit of bluegrass and mountain music, including the Carters, the Osbornes, the McReynolds, the Whites, The Stanleys and even the progenitors of bluegrass Bill and Charlie Monroe. The trope continues to the present with The Gibson Brothers carrying on this tradition admirably.
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Over the more than 20 years since upstate (way, way upstate) New York natives Eric and Leigh Gibson debuted on the bluegrass scene, it has been more or less de rigueur for the journalists and reviewers who write about them to link them to the long and proud tradition - especially in country music in all its forms - of siblings whose voices combine in mystical ways for some of the most enduring sounds going back more than a century. And while there have been superlative sister acts, from the Carter ...
It's now two full decades since Eric and Leigh Gibson, natives of the farthest reaches of upstate New York (not much more than a couple of stones throws from the Canadian border) debuted on the bluegrass circuit in their early twenties, instantly winning fans with tight harmonies that drew immediate and enthusiastic comparisons to the great tradition of "brother duets" in country music - the Louvins, McReynolds, Delmores, Osbornes, Bollicks (Blue Sky Boys) - well, the list is pretty ...
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