Geoff Union - Cold As Steel

This is an album of all original material - 6 songs and 2 instrumentals - performed by a five-piece traditional bluegrass band. The lyric content is certainly non-traditional, with stories about rebellion, moonshine, fugitives, theft and, of course, 'the road'; musically, it's all bluegrass drive, with aggressive rhythm and dynamic instrumental performance as one might expect from a modern bluegrass album - but way more edge. There's no fluff here, no sad, slow songs, just hard-driving flatpick-guitar-led bluegrass with great harmony singing and cool arrangements. Geoff Union - guitar, vocals Christina Union - backing vocals Billy Bright - mandolin Steven Crow and Dom Fischer on Bass Ricky Turpin - fiddle Mark Maniscalco - banjo.

1) Devil's Card
2) 40 Years
3) Half Past Zero
4) Cold As Steel
5) Lewis Redmond
6) Fannie at the Front Door
7) Spirit of '94
8) Water in the Well