Tab (a.k.a. "Growler Bob") Tabscott plays dobro. That's a guitar with a metal hubcap in the middle. All that metal creates a magnetic disturbance that tends to make dobro players a bit unbalanced. This album is one outcome of this. There are nine vocals (out of 18 cuts), and they are all on the demented side. My favorite is, "Shallow Grave in Darrington," which describes the result of offending the Deliverance-minded residents of this foothills town. Or there's "The Bear Song," which extols the virtues of interspecies marriage. You get the idea - all the vocals are, to say the least, tongue-in-cheek. The instrumentals are where Tabscott gets serious (well, semi-serious anyway). From the all-out "Pickaway" and "Up On the BlueRidge," with a full bluegrass band, to the solo dobro "Geez Louise," the picking is first rate, and includes the spirit of fun which is shown in the vocals. An enjoyable CD from one of the Northwest's best players of the dobro (or resophonic guitar, if you're a Gibson lawyer).
--Ted Briggs-Comstock, Victory Review

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