By Don Thrasher, Contributing Writer
2:55 PM Thursday, February 11, 2010
New Found Road is known primarily as a bluegrass group. That’s certainly a big part of the band’s sound, but as revealed on the latest album, “Same Old Place” (Rounder Records), this crew isn’t concerned with sticking to some rigid, genre-specific template.
“We started out doing all gospel, but I didn’t want to be in that little niche,” band leader Tim Shelton said last week, speaking over the telephone from his home in Franklin. “Musically, I wanted to do other things. I continue to want to do other things. We’ve started doing more and more, almost, acoustic-pop-sounding material in our live show.
“We’ve been doing a wider variety of material for the last five or six years,” he continued. “We did our first secular album in 2005, and we had a song off that go No. 1 on the bluegrass charts. It’s kind of progressed slowly from there.”
The commercial and critical success of the group’s 2005 self-titled album — which featured country, bluegrass and gospel songs — lead to a deal with venerable roots label, Rounder Records. Read more.
2:55 PM Thursday, February 11, 2010
New Found Road is known primarily as a bluegrass group. That’s certainly a big part of the band’s sound, but as revealed on the latest album, “Same Old Place” (Rounder Records), this crew isn’t concerned with sticking to some rigid, genre-specific template.
“We started out doing all gospel, but I didn’t want to be in that little niche,” band leader Tim Shelton said last week, speaking over the telephone from his home in Franklin. “Musically, I wanted to do other things. I continue to want to do other things. We’ve started doing more and more, almost, acoustic-pop-sounding material in our live show.
“We’ve been doing a wider variety of material for the last five or six years,” he continued. “We did our first secular album in 2005, and we had a song off that go No. 1 on the bluegrass charts. It’s kind of progressed slowly from there.”
The commercial and critical success of the group’s 2005 self-titled album — which featured country, bluegrass and gospel songs — lead to a deal with venerable roots label, Rounder Records. Read more.
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