While some people might be tempted to typecast Mountain Heart as just another bluegrass band, in truth they’re far more than any simple stereotype would suggest. Five years removed from their previous effort, That Just Happened, the band vary the […]
Mountain Heart has long had a perfectly good thing going: a crisp, smooth sound, nimble musicianship (notably fiddler Jim Van Cleve, banjoist Barry Abernathy and mandolinist Adam Steffey), and a repertoire heavily weighted toward gospel. Sometime between 2006’s Wide Open […]
Mountain Heart’s third album for the Skaggs Family label is their most honest recording to date. The bandmembers may have been schooled by the likes of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and the Renfro Valley Barn Dance, but they also heard […]
No bluegrass band has come on stronger in the last few years than Mountain Heart, which won the IBMA’s Emerging Artist of the Year title a couple of years ago before their first album had hit the streets. Their Skaggs […]
Mountain Heart was voted IBMA Emerging Artist of the Year in 1999, before they’d even released their debut album. That makes for an interesting piece of bluegrass music trivia, but it’s hardly anything you can build a career on. Successful […]
Even before the release of their 1999 debut, the members of Mountain Heart were looking forward to this, their first all-gospel collection. So were fans of the band’s polished but heartfelt eclecticism, and their patience has been rewarded with an […]
