Stone County Connection
BY KEVIN KERFOOT



 

Jackson, Tennessee’s Stone County Connection is Kevin Wright, guitar/vocals; Kurt Stephenson, banjo, mandolins, vocals; Curtis Mann, bass and vocals; and Phillip Williams, mandolin/vocals. Guest fiddlers are Becky Goodrum, Brandon Apple and Carl Franklin. The vocals and harmonies are solid and tight on these numbers and some good examples are Cold Sheets Of Rain and the moving Gotta Travel On. Wright’s vocals are pleasant yet powerful, especially on numbers such as the ballad Tennessee Blues, Heartaches By The Number, and I’ll Talk It All Over With Him, which also displays his fluid flatpicking skills. These boys can also pick as evidenced on Bill Monroe’s Old Brown County Barn and Wright’s original Big Will. Other selections include Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong, He Must Have Loved Me A Lot and East Virginia Blues. BMP



 

May/June 2007 Issue
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