This first Tallgrass Express album contains some real gems. Among the 18 songs, Charlie Laughridge will really get you moving with his classic old-time fiddle tunes and cowboy vocals. Derrick Doty demonstrates remarkable instrumentation and shares his moving love song Ancient Sound. Loren’s banjo work gives this album a real kick; then he slows it

This first Tallgrass Express album contains some real gems. Among the 18 songs, Charlie Laughridge will really get you moving with his classic old-time fiddle tunes and cowboy vocals. Derrick Doty demonstrates remarkable instrumentation and shares his moving love song Ancient Sound. Loren’s banjo work gives this album a real kick; then he slows it down beautifully for Shenandoah and In the Pines. Finally, this CD contains Annie Wilson’s first two original songs about life in the Flint Hills: Reasons for Home, and This Was a Very Good Year. (2005)