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Dakota - Full track! (2.2 MB)
(Bill Evans, Fifth Child Music, BMI)
A banjo instrumental in the key of B, featuring hot solos from all of the band members. Bill was thinking of Terry Baucom's playing as well as Herschel Sizemore's great instrumental "Rebecca" when he put this tune together. The tune was written coincidentally on the anniversary of John Lennon's passing, hence the title "Dakota."

The Good Times We Never Had (940 KB)
(Jim Nunally, BMI)
Jim captures some great bluegrass intensity in his bluesy original that features some wonderful fiddling from Chad.

Sandy Marsh/Fast Ruby (The Slowest Mule) (944 KB)
(Chad Manning, In-The-Midst Music, BMI)
These tunes show that Chad is coming into his own both as a great composer and as a fiddler who is skilled in bluegrass as well as old time, Irish, jazz and swing styles. The first tune in this medley could be described as a "bluegrass/Middle Eastern fusion" while the second is just a great bluegrass jam tune.

Cumberland Furnace (944 KB)
(Bill Evans, Fifth Child Music, BMI)
Along with Sonny Osborne, Bill hosts an annual music camp in the Nashville area called the NashCamp Fall Banjo Retreat. At the 2002 camp, Tony Trischka challenged Bill and Ned Luberecki to each compose a new instrumental that would collectively be called "Cumberland Furnace." This tune was Bill's contribution to this effort. As you might be able to hear, Bill took Earl Scruggs' familiar banjo theme from "Cumberland Gap" and cycled it through a number of keys - from G, to C, F and Bb.

Mexicali Moonshine (944 KB)
(Erik Thomas, Fifth Child Music, BMI)
Due West goes south of the border via Erik's catchy instrumental which manages to fuse bluegrass, swing and Latin ideas in a way that's perfectly suited to both Erik's mandolin style and Cindy's background as a jazz bassist.