Search - Jeff White :: The Broken Road

Well-Scrubbed Bluegrass

Lee Armstrong | Winterville, NC United States | 01/21/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Jeff White's "Broken Road" CD is great bluegrass fun for the whole family! The title tune has great banjo & fiddles with good lyrical depth, "In another rhelm where no one dwells, I wait here endlessly for another soul on this broken road to beckon faithfully*." Great banjo picking highlights the country "Lonesome As It Gets." "Stay Away From Me" is a fast pretty little tune. "Cliffs by the Sea" is a slow ballad with a beautiful fiddle part. Fast finger picking is the hallmark of "Rich Gal." There will be "hell to pay" if you "Bet On An Angel," a pretty uptempo melody. "Cheater's Heart" is a another pretty melody about a relationship breaking up, "Where do you turn when the road ahead is crumbling? What do you do when the love you knew is crumbling & you're left with a cheater's heart?" "The Struggle" is a slow sad country tune that makes me feel like I'm back in Iowa sitting in the Little Brown Church again, "One day I saw the Light & I knew I'd won the fight!" "This Lonely Heart of Mine" is a peppy tune with nice harmonies and some fierce mandolin pickin'. Perky fiddle in the bluegrass mode about a young person going away from home dresses up "I'll Make My Way." "I'm Not a Stranger to Love" is an aching slow tune followed by "I Wonder," a midtempo toe tapper. "The Only Girl" is a pretty banjo-picking love song. Jeff's set closes with a spooky ballad with some great manodlin, "The Fiddle in the Trees." Jeff's music is good quality bluegrass, well-scrubbed fun you can play with your kids in the car. *I couldn't quite tell if he was singing "faithfully" or "fatefully," but I chose the former! :)"