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Lamplight Cuisine Presents The Greg Blake Band

Apr 19, 2018 | 7:59 AM

You’ll hear it in his voice immediately … the original strain of Appalachian mountain music that lies at the heart of all great modern bluegrass and country.

Greg Blake grew up in the mountains of southwest West Virginia, and when he sings, you can hear a voice that connectsto the great old generations of mountain singers, invested with a rich twang, numbing drawl and the kind of eerily powerful high tenor cry that first inspired the ’high, lonesomesound.’

On his new album, Song of the Heart and Home, he’s joined by some of the best bluegrass talents today, not least members of the band he leads as vocalist, Jeff Scroggins and Colorado, plus guests like 3-time IBMA Vocalist of the year Claire Lynch, K.C. Groves (Uncle Earl), bluegrass icon Laurie Lewis, mandolinist John Reischman, fiddler Blaine Sprouse, bassist MarkSchataz and dobro master Sally Van Meter (who also produced the album).

But it’s his voice hat rings out above them all, earnestly delivering songs of family, love and life in the hills.