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Article: Nashville Bluegrass Band, American Beauty.(Review)
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- Southern Cultures
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- March 22, 1999
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Nashville Bluegrass Band, American Beauty Sugar Hill, 1998 SHCD 3882, $15
These two Sugar Hill releases cover an expanse of bluegrass territory and show off the genre's breadth and vitality.
"Strong and a little raw," is how Jim Mills describes his music. The Raleigh, North Carolina, native has produced an avowedly traditional album, in sympathy with the Flatt and Scruggs music of his childhood. Fans of Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, and Ricky Skaggs's Kentucky Thunder will recognize Mills's talent on the banjo, and Bound to Ride will not disappoint them. In this his first solo effort, Mills declares that "there's not one song on this record that I think ...