If you go where the snowflakes storm/where the rivers freeze and the summer ends/see for me she has a coat so warm/to keep her from the howling winds
Continuing the theme of some of my favorite musicians covering Bob Dylan and the plethora of bluegrass tunes I've been doing lately (I told you I love bluegrass in the spring!)...
Sam Bush makes his second appearance on the Ultimate Playlist (see Track 49) with an amazing cover of Bob Dylan's "Girl from the North Country." The original version lives on the record "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" and there's a great version where Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash do a duet of the tune on Dylan's "Nashville Skyline" album. But it was Sam Bush that introduced me to the song.
Bush was one of the first 'big' stories I did as a fledgling freelancer, and he really helped introduce me to a world of bluegrass that I would begin to love. The dude's been playing mandolin and fiddle since he was a kid and has been a major player in whole "newgrass" genre since he was a teenager. He was a co-founder of Newgrass Revival, a band that opened for the Grateful Dead on occasion, also featured banjo giant Bela Fleck, and basically helped introduce traditional bluegrass to the brave new world. He pops up on a lot of my favorite bluegrass records by folks like Bela Fleck and Tony Rice
Learn more about Sam Bush here: http://tinyurl.com/32m8c5k
Though the freelancing gig was extremely low paying, it did have its perks in lots of free CDs and lots of free concerts. And Bush's "Peaks of Telluride" CD was one of my first favorites. It's a live album, compiled from Bush's numerous visits to the famed Telluride Bluegrass festival. Again, it's a testament to what two dudes with two chunks of wood can do. Dobro-god Jerry Douglas really adds a lot of color to this song, with some mighty fine pickin' and a singin' from Mr. Sam Bush. And of course it doesn't hurt to start with a masterful blueprint from Bob Dylan.
--Music is good
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