Music
A Quindecennial Anthology
2022
A double vinyl of our greatest hits so far, released in honor of the bands 15th anniversary April 2021.
Tracks
Disc A
Caney Fork River
Jack Diamond
Gonna Be Movin'
Last Train to Kitty Hawk
Blue Mountain
Burning Georgia Down
Any Old Road (Will Take You There)
Somewhere in Between
Callin' Caroline
Papertown
Trains I Missed
Disc B (2014-2021)
Moon Over Memphis
Eldorado Blues
Songs I've Sung
Stacking Up the Rocks
Blue Collar Dreams
The Girl Who Invented The Wheel
Highway Side
The Girl From The Highlands
The Rambler
Richest Man
Grit And Grace
Moxie and Mettle
2021
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For Balsam Range what matters most is still a song, a message, a distinctive sound and a compelling performance. And though the western North Carolina quintet is known as a bluegrass band par excellence, they’ve always escaped easy categorization; just when you think you’ve got them pegged, they’ll surprise you once again. Such is the case with Moxie and Mettle.
Tracks
Highway Side
Rivers, Rains and Runaway Trains
Traveling Blues
Richest Man
Until I see you Again
That's Enough
His Tomb Is Empty Now
Tonight I'm Heading South
Santa Barbara
Grit and Grace
Aeonic
2019
It has been said that great songs are timeless. But they also organize time into attractive human pieces while their lyrics manage their way into our hearts and minds with lasting meaning. Great music has no expiration date—it is Aeonic.
On the heels of their second International Bluegrass Music Association Entertainer of the Year award, this eminent band continues to be a tour de force in Bluegrass with their album, Aeonic, released January 4, 2019 from Mountain Home Music Company.
Tracks
The Girl Who Invented the Wheel
Tumbleweed Town
The Rambler
Get Me Gone
Hobo Blues
Help Me to Hold On
Let My Life Be a Light
My Cross To Bear
Graveyard Blues
Angel Too Soon
If I Need Someone
Mountain Overture
2018
Mountain Overture, from Mountain Home Music Company, takes the band’s most-loved songs and elevates them, pulling together the rustic and symphonic for a profound effect.
The music scores, arranged by Wes Funderburk and Shelley Washington lift the heartfelt tale of “Trains I Missed” (IBMA 2011 Song of the Year), intensify the sentimental longing of “Blue Mountain,” and draw out the melancholia of “I Hear the Mountains.”
Tracks
with Atlanta Pops Orchestra Ensemble
Trains I Missed
Blue Mountain
Eldorado Blue
From A Georgia Battlefield
Any Old Road (Will Take You There)
Jack Diamond
Matthew
Last Train to Kitty Hawk
I Hear The Mountains
Burning Georgia Down
Mountain Voodoo
2016
Nominated for three International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Awards (Entertainer, Vocal Group, and Vocalist of the Year) for 2016, Balsam Range is offering something that is sure to continue to mesmerize fans of Bluegrass and beyond with their release of Mountain Voodoo.
Mountain Voodoo is like the book of life “Chapter Six” for Balsam Range; 13-tracks filled with songs of journey, home, sense of place, hardcore stomping drive, and longing. There are fiery instrumental parts alternating with heavy, deep ballads overlaid by the vocal harmonies the group has become known for.
Tracks
Something ‘Bout That Suitcase
Blue Collar Dreams
Voodoo Doll
Eldorado Blue
The Girl From The Highlands
I Hear The Mountains
Chain Gang Blues
Rise And Shine
Spring Hill
Hello Heartache
Lines in the Sand
Don’t Walk Away
Wish You Were Here
Five
2014
The band has a consistent knack for conveying emotion with power. The result is a heartfelt delivery of tributes to working class heroes, an original Gospel a cappella song, a pulsing instrumental, and even a John Denver classic. The group pulls from diverse influences and original sources while giving each track the Balsam Range treatment. Five is an album full of songs that have both drive and nuance. With the band’s level of success and their delivery of great albums, expectations are high. Balsam Range Five will not disappoint but continues to raise the bar for the best bluegrass of today.
Tracks
Moon Over Memphis
Chasing Someone Else’s Dreams
From a Georgia Battlefield
Stacking Up the Rocks
Monday Blues
Songs I’ve Sung
Too High a Price to Pay
The Future’s Not What It Used to Be
Don’t Watch These Tears
I Spend My Days Below The Ground
Backdraft (You Light It, You Fight It)
Matthew
Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)
Papertown
2012
Papertown is a perfect mix of stellar tunes from award winning writers such as Carl Jackson, Jerry Salley, and Shawn Camp, as well as grassed up versions of familiar songs from the Allman Brothers and others. Add the band’s gospel cuts and a soulful version of Buddy and Julie Miller’s “Wide River to Cross,” and this album will appeal to a wide range of musical tastes.
Tracks
Other Side of the Mountain
Any Old Road (Will Take You There)
Wide River To Cross
Day In The Life of a Railroad Spike
Better Days
Born Ramblin’ Man
Row by Row
Building The Fire
One Way Out
I Ain’t Leavin’
I Could Do You Some Good
Papertown
The Streamlined Cannonball
Trains I Missed
2010
The title track, “Trains I Missed” – written by Walt Wilkins, Gilles Godard, and Nicole Witt – is a ballad about things not done in life, that leads you straight to what was supposed to be. “Trains I Missed” is one of those songs that helps define a moment in one’s life, as well as in one’s career.
Tracks
Trains I Missed
The Other Side
Callin’ Caroline
East Virginia Blues
The Touch
Hard Price To Pay
Gonna be Movin’
Meanwhile
On the Run
A Heart That Won’t Stop Loving You
Memory of You
Runnin’ Through My Mind
Last Train to Kitty Hawk
2009
This 12 track recording has it all – tunes written in-house as well as songs written by well-known writers such as Larry Cordle, Dottie Rambo and Charlie Monroe. Caleb Smith, BR’s guitarist, demonstrates his writing skills with a lonesome ballad “Jack Diamond” and an instrumental piece, “Jaxon Point”. Millan Miller, the pen behind “Burning Georgia Down” and “Calloway County Flood” recorded on Marching Home, shows up again with Caney Fork River – a lively tune where the character comes full circle by the end of the tune. The driving track, “Julie’s Train” was a result of Buddy Melton and friends getting together and working through a tune in the living room.
Tracks
Julie’s Train
Place No Wreath
I’m Lonesome Without You
Somewhere In Between
Last Train to Kitty Hawk
Caney Fork River
Jack Diamond
Spring Will Bring Flowers
Don’t Take Me Tonight As I Am
Down In Caroline
The Holy Hills
Jaxon Point
Marching Home
2007
The album features six great Bill Monroe songs and seven original tunes written by band members and by today’s premier songwriters. Marching Home grabs your attention from the start with the rocking bluegrasser “The Train’s Ready” as well as “Calloway County Flood” and fan favorite “Burning Georgia Down.” The band’s debut album Marching Home has been receiving rave reviews from fans and music critics throughout the music industry. The album was recently recorded in Arden, NC at Crossroads Studios and was produced by Jerry Salley, award winning songwriter.
Tracks
The Train’s Ready
Blue Mountain
Calloway County Flood
I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
Burning Georgia Down
Could’ve Fooled Me
Goodbye Old Pal
Crying’ Holy Unto The Lord
Marching Home
Come Back To Me In My Dreams
I’m Just As Wrong
The Boat of Love
Travelin’ This Lonesome Road
Secrets, Dreams & Pretty Things
2016
A stellar set of original Bluegrass songs from two old friends. Featuring Sammy Shelor, Adam Steffey, Caleb Smith, Aubrey Haynie, Missy Armstrong, Marc Pruett, Carl Jackson, Darren Nicholson, Rob Ickes, Tim Surrett, Mark Bumgarner, Ron Stewart, Adam Wright, Seth Taylor, Ron Shuffler and Terry Baucom
Tracks
Adeline
Joseph
Will I Want To
Secrets in the Shadows
White Oak Mountain
Big City Dreams Die Hard
Took up Crying
Tangled Web
Nowhere to Hide
When a Woman Leaves
The Boy from Valdese
Lost and Alone in This World
Tracks
Rawhide
Kansas City Kitty
Ashokan Farewell
Flint Hill Special
Cherokee Lady
Crow on a Wire
Shenandoah Breakdown
In the Sweet by and By
Old Jah Clark Mon
Bluegrass Twist
Lost Indian
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Roanoke
Buddy Melton
2007
Buddy’s debut solo album contains a fourteen song package with a tasteful mix of uncut gems and classic bluegrass tunes. Backed by a stellar instrumental cast that includes Tony Rice (guitar), Marc Pruett (banjo), Adam Steffey (mandolin) and Tim Surrett (upright bass), Buddy’s powerful tenor voice soars to unbelievable heights, and his tasty fiddle playing serves as the spice needed to complete the ensemble.
Tracks
Caney Fork River
Dig A Hole In The Meadow
Midnight And Lonesome
Ruby (Are You Mad)
He Had The World On His Shoulders
My Rose of Old Kentucky
Burning Georgia Down
Blue And Lonesome
Get In Line Brother
Good Ole Boys Like Me
Big Sandy River
99 Years
Green Pastures
Pretty Polly
Things Left Undone
2014
Darren Nicholson solo album. Special Guests: Rhonda Vincent, Carl Jackson, Steve Sutton, Tim Surrett, John Driskell Hopkins, Bobby Hicks, Milan Miller, Jennifer Nicholson, Audie Blaylock, Eddie Rose, Mike Ramsey, Aaron Ramsey, David Johnson, Steve Thomas, Tony Creasman, Jeff Collins, Griff Martin, & Kevin Sluder.
Tracks
Things Left Undone
Durango
I’m Not Going There Today
Dancin’ In The Kitchen
Bluegrass Stomp
Like My Dog
Give Mother My Crown
Sugar Creek Gap
In A Perfect World
Traveling Teardrop Blues
Ways I’ve Always Been
Can’t You See
Streamline Canonball
1981
This album is a Marc Pruett solo album. Marc has lived all his life in Haywood and Buncombe Counties, and he is dedicated to preserving the musical traditions of his native region. Pruett received a banjo for Christmas when he was eleven years old, after hearing Earl Scruggs on the radio and getting excited about the instrument. Over the next years he learned by observing and imitating local banjo players. He includes among his influences were local masters Mike Pressley, Raymond Fairchild, Shorty Eager, Roy Kirkpatrick, Howard Burnette, and Tom McKinney. This album is essential listening.
Tracks
Streamline Cannonball
Wildwood Flower
Shortening’ Bread
Down In The Willow Garden
McCloud’s Reel
Whoa, Mule!
Home Sweet Home
Cotton Eye Joe
Grandfather’s Clock
Gray Eagle
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Orange Mountain Special
Dublin’ Banjos
Tracks
Christmas Lullaby
The First Noel
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
I’m Going Home, It’s Christmas
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Jingle Bells