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Midnight Has Come and Gone

by Black Twig Pickers (VHF)

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Midnight has Come and Gone is the third album by this Southwest Virginia group, and is another set of classic old time, country blues, and Appalachian folk. Since 2003's Soon One Morning, the Black Twig trio of Mike Gangloff, Ralph Berrier, and Isak Howell has expanded to a quartet with the addition of bassist Mike Gayheart. Midnight Has Come and Gone is made up of mostly of original material, road tested at gigs and festivals along the Blue Ridge. Topical stormers like "Fire in the Stove" and "Blood Red Clay" are live staples, belted out here in a virtuoso hail of guitar, fiddle, banjo, and rough harmony. In contrast to the more trad sounding fare, the grungy and twisting "Bent Mountain Drag" recalls "Beggar's" era-Rolling Stones. Continuing the Black Twig tradition of beautiful instrumentals, "Twilight on the Radford Army Ammunition Plant" is another hymn-like meditation outside the showy-offy bluegrass tradition. "Original Natural Bridge Blues" is a song from 1941, which has been recorded in an incomplete fashion by many groups over the years. Ralph's discovery of the original 1940's sheet music in a family photo album revealed a lost verse, presented here for the first time.

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released January 18, 2018

Recorded March-August 2004 in Fairlawn and at Fairystone State Park, Virginia. In the Pines (traditional), Natural Bridge Blues (Magness), Banjo Instrumental (Sutphin), remainder by Black Twigs, copyright 2004 Black Apple

Ralph Berrier Jr: Fiddle, Probably Vocals
Mike Gangloff: Banjo, Maybe Resonator Guitar, Vocals
Isak Howell: Guitar, Possibly Vocals
perhaps Mike Gayheart: Bass and Vocals

Thanks to Ruth for putting up with the sessions, likewise to Chris, Elsa, Amy, Tycho, and Willa; to Patrick, Maurice, Berry, Bill, the Coffee Mill, Oddfellas, the Empty Bottle, and the pasture in Soldiers Grove, Jack, Glenn, Matt, Erika, Mikel. Cover photo by Ruth. Packaging design by Tom Angleberger; fretless banjo made by Lo Gordon of Brevard, NC; resonator put together by Bill Blue, New Smyrna Beach, FLA; Ralph's fiddle tuned TGIF on "Stairway to Hell's Holler," Isak's guitar sounds better with the crack in the top, thank you very much.

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