All God\u2019s Children<\/em>, out today (Aug. 22) on Mountain Fever Records.<\/p>\n\n\tThe new project features five fresh originals, a pair of cover songs and even a song that offers a new spin on a Liberian chant.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cOur album seems to have a theme of, not necessarily spirituality, but it feels like there\u2019s kind of a connectedness and world music influences,\u201d Denton says, noting recent international traveling the band has done, including trips to Switzerland, France and Ireland. \u201cWe had a kind of old-timey sound, and I think we had lots of traditional old-time music that we turned into bluegrass-style stuff. With this new record, we wanted to do something different than what we had done previously.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cBend in the Road\u201d was written by Clark and Walker. \u201cWe had been toying for it for probably over a year,\u201d Clark says. \u201cWe\u2019d written one or two verses, but it was basically a bunch of trial and error, just seeing what sticks. I guess we were listening to a bunch of Uncle Dave records one night and this song was just ideas we\u2019d written down.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe album\u2019s closing song, \u201cJump Through the Window,\u201d is a new spin on a Liberian chant. Denton worked on the song with close friend, musician and the band\u2019s tour manager Brenna MacMillan.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cBrenna has some adopted siblings from Liberia, and they knew this chant,\u201d Denton says. \u201cShe called it \u2018Jump Through the Window\u2019 and played it for me one day. She\u2019s like, \u2018I want to make it kind of a bluegrass thing,\u2019 so we worked on it together. We brought it to East Nash Grass and we had already recorded some songs for the album and the title track. To put \u2018Jump Through the Window\u2019 on there, it felt like it was the rug that tied the room together.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe album also tucks in a cover of the Jimmy Driftwood song \u201cGit Along Little Yearlings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAll of us are always listening to different music, searching out what could be links to bluegrass. Growing up in central Arkansas, Jimmy Driftwood has a special connection to me because he was from Arkansas, and he was really influential in getting a folk roots program started at the Ozark Folk Center. I remember finding one of his albums on the road, sending a song to Corey, and then the whole band listened and James said it sounded like something we should do for the album. He was right, it turned out to be a really good fit and just kind of fills a gap in our sound.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tBeyond the high-caliber musicianship on their recordings, that coveted entertainer of the year nomination also comes due to East Nash Grass\u2019s energetic, unfiltered performances, which are equally likely to find them laying down blistering instrumentals as engaging with off-the-wall banter with the audience.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe group\u2019s members have played with numerous other bluegrass music luminaries. Kee has played with NewTown and the Hamilton Country Ramblers, while Walker has worked with artists including Tim O\u2019Brien, Sierra Hull and Ricky Skaggs. Denton, a third-generation fiddle player, has worked with the Dan Tyminski Band, Sierra Ferrell, Billy Strings and more, while Clark has toured with Volume Five and Tyminski and Partin has played with Rhonda Vincent and the Rage.<\/p>\n
\n\tAround 2016, Walker came up with the band name East Nash Grass, after noticing a surge of bluegrass music around the East Nashville area. Soon after, Walker and Clark met a bartender working at Dee\u2019s Country Cocktail Lounge who wanted to put on a weekly bluegrass show.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cOne of the things we realized, was Monday night ended up being a really good night to meeting other musicians,\u201d Kee says. \u201cNashville turns into a completely different town on the weekends, and on Mondays, the musicians are coming in off the road and want to get out and hang and see everyone. We started doing a few different special events where we would have guests. We started doing that around 2018, maybe a year into our residency. For a residency, you have to be relentless at it. We were there every Monday in some iteration for all those years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThrough years of performances at Dee\u2019s, and a few lineup shifts, the band refined its sound. They released their debut self-titled album in 2021. Their sophomore album, 2023\u2019s Last Chance to Win<\/em>, rose to No. 4 on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Bluegrass Albums chart. Following the release of All God\u2019s Children<\/em>, they will co-headline a tour with AJ Lee & Blue Summit this fall.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cSome of the, what you might call \u2018irreverence\u2019 we have sometimes onstage, was from playing in the bar and atmospheres were we\u2019re trying to see if anyone is listening at all,\u201d Walker says. \u201cWe\u2019ll see what we can sing and what we can get away with. And the weekly residency gave us a chance to workshop stuff\u2014interacting with folks. That\u2019s kind of where that was born. And every stage has a bit of similarity no matter where you are. I particularly love observational humor and I think it\u2019s fun to play with and poke fun at the formality of playing sometimes. There were some moments where the owners of Dee\u2019s came to us and were like, \u2018Hey, maybe you can dial it back a little bit, maybe not do this.\u2019 But again, that\u2019s part of trying things. You got to just throw s\u2014t at the wall and see what sticks.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe group\u2019s success comes with the post-\u201cbro country\u201d rise of more roots-based artists such as Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle and Tyler Childers \u2014 a surge that has also been beneficial for artists like East Nash Grass.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cFrom about 2012 to 2020, Nashville used the same chord progression on like every country song,\u201d Walker says. \u201cEverybody is tired of that s\u2014t, and that same [chord] progression. That\u2019s why real artists, real country singers, real roots singers are having success, because I think the music business got lazy. They just knew that progression was a selling progression. Now the stuff that has really taken off as far as live shows are people like Billy Strings and Tyler Childers. That\u2019s causing the rising tide to lift all ships.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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