Home from the Mills

by Jimmy Gaudreau, Moondi Klein

Overview

Given their solid bluegrass and newgrass credentials, what looks like a brother-duet format, and the fact that they're recording for Rebel Records (one of the country's foremost traditional bluegrass labels), you would expect mandolinist/tenor singer Jimmy Gaudreau and guitarist/lead singer Moondi Klein to deliver a nice, safe program of classic pre-bluegrass and proto-bluegrass material, probably reprising a bunch of Louvin Brothers and Blue Sky Boys songs the way Tony Rice and Ricky Skaggs did on their classic duo album back in 1980. But no. Instead, what you get is a wide variety of folk and acoustic country tunes, songs by the likes of John Starling ("C&O Canal"), Gordon Lightfoot ("Shadows"), and Townes Van Zandt ("If I Needed You"), as well as such oddball selections as a French aria from a Massenet opera and a new version of "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie," a song that was a hit for Fats Waller in 1935. There's some traditional material, all of it instrumental: lovely renditions of "Fisher's Hornpipe," a medley of "Whiskey Before Breakfast," and "Red-Haired Boy" -- potboiler stuff, certainly, but played with winning grace and affection. Klein and Gaudreau are both getting on in years and you can hear it in their voices; Klein, in particular, isn't as solid as he was back in the days of Chesapeake and the Seldom Scene. But they still harmonize beautifully and they pick like a dream. Their many fans will find lots to love on this album. ~ Rick Anderson

Product Details

Release Date:	05/08/2012
Label:	Rebel / Rebel Records
UPC:	0032511184320
Rank:	173118

Tracks

1. Bending Blades
2. Leaving Nancy
3. Rod McNeil
4. Whiskey Before Breakfast/Red Haired Boy
5. Close the Door Lightly When You Go
6. Home from the Mills
7. Shadows
8. C & O Canal
9. Fisher¿¿¿s Hornpipe
10. If I Needed You
11. I¿¿¿D Rather Live by the Side of the Road
12. Enferment les Yeux
13. New Morning
14. It¿¿¿s a Sin to Tell a Lie

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Jimmy Gaudreau   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Mandola,Mandolin,Vocal Harmony,Octave Mandolin
Moondi Klein   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Octave Mandolin
Lauren Klein   Vocal Harmony,Guest Artist

Technical Credits

Traditional   Composer
Mark Freeman   Production Coordination
Jimmy Gaudreau   Producer
John Starling   Composer
Jules Massenet   Composer
Paul Lawrence Mellyn   Composer
Tim O'Brien   Composer
Albert E. Brumley   Composer
Gordon Lightfoot   Composer
William P. Mayhew   Composer
Townes Van Zandt   Composer
David Glasser   Mastering
Eric Andersen   Composer
Eric Bogle   Composer
Casey McPherson   Composer
Moondi Klein   Producer
Stuart Martin   Mixing,Engineer,Producer
Art Wachter   Band Photo