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Buy Band Matt Gray - Banjo Annie Staninec - Fiddle Fran Kent - Guitar and Vocals Jarod Stevens - Bass With Very Special Guest Jim Chatfield on Bass on Never My Love and Big Mon ----------------------------------------------------------------- Best Albums of 2014 Roots Music Report Best Songs of 2014 Roots Music Report Best Albums of 2014 WWSP REVIEWS "...emotionally-enriched, vigorously dynamic bluegrass lacking only in pretense and tedium." -The Oregonian --------------------- ...fun, fresh, invigorating, and as infectious as kindergarten chicken-pox. You get a full emotional infusion with luscious vocals and tantalizing instrumentals; truth and tonic all in a single sweet bluegrass dose." Portland Tribune ------------- "Kent is afforded ample room to reveal the depths of her soul, which she does to haunting effect on 'Little Maggie.' But on 'Never My Love,' the mood takes you on a completely different sojourn back to the days of brightly colored T-shirts and 3 minute radio hits with this Association cover done brilliantly as bluegrass." -The Columbian "Appaloosa Daydream, the Urban Monroes’ third CD release; trots, gallops and sometimes flies across a 10-song soundscape of original and traditional bluegrass music. Songs like the upbeat and vocally divine original, “Lamp in the Window” can take you to a warm fire on a cold night, while the title track prances delightedly in a valley of instrumental bliss. Don’t be fooled by seeing “Little Maggie” on this CD’s track listing either. This is uncharted territory. That recognizable title could not prepare one for this sonic surprise package, with a performance as hauntingly beautiful as it is muscular. Combining motifs from Darling Corey and Little Maggie, the band’s arrangement exchanges energy from moment to moment like the ebb and flow of ocean waves as this trail again leads to the unexpected and exciting.
With enduring arrangements and some clever musical horse sense, the Urban Monroes nimbly negotiate a path to discover the unexplored in the midst of some familiar and some not-so-familiar terrain. The CD lays out that fresh panorama in eloquent testimony of the band’s talent. " - Fireball Mail agazine “When four talented musicians convert
four very different acoustic instruments into one
blended sound it is what I call magic...crisp, sweet
and truly captivating.” -The Daily Reed
You would not believe how much we listen to your music while in the shop building banjos! Your music is very inspirational" - Doc Huff- Doc's Banjos-"Love the CD!" - Jeff Eads WNKU's Front Portch
"I just LOVE Little
Maggie. I can't sit still while listening to it. I'm
an old Irish dancer so out comes the Irish
dancing!"-Fan Review "Oh that was just plain
awesomeness there!!!!!!!!!"~Fan Review "Wow!! First time I
heard "Never Mind Love" in a bluegrass style
and I must say it sounds really AWESOME!!!
Harmonies are off the chart!! Great job!!!"-Fan Review "Portland
swings, the fiddle does too. Glass that’s blown, grass
that’s blue. The sweet sweet smell of a garden rose.
The sweet sweet sound of the Urban Monroes! " ~Fan
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