Someday the Heart Will Trouble the Mind

The 13-track setlist for Someday the Heart Will Trouble the Mind, which was recorded live in the Watershed Productions studio in Vancouver, draws from the classic catalogue of JD Crowe, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, and Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, among others. The High Bar Gang prides itself on harmony vocals and this album delivers the goods on a number of tracks. ‘Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky?’ showcasesShari Ulrich, Wendy Bird and Kirby Barber on a Flatt & Scruggs classic that blends bluegrass, gospel and country blues in a deeply fine mix. Another highlight in the same vein, which the band calls the ‘cheatin’ and hurtin’’ side of bluegrass, is a superb rendering of Peter Rowan's rambling blues, ‘Cold Rain and Snow’, which is carried to a transcendent level by Ulrich's barbed-wire-sharp violin solo.