★★★★★
"Lonesome Pine" is a collection of 3-5 cuts apiece from three Blue Highway albums on the Rebel label: It's A Long, Long Road (1995), Wind To The West (1996), Midnight Storm (1998). So this 44-minute compilation of previously released material is a fine "Best of" retrospective for the band from Johnson City, Tennessee that performed its first gig on New Year's Eve in 1994...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2014-04-26
★★★★★
2014 sees Blue Highway celebrate their 20th anniversary. Exemplifying a consistency that is unusual in bands of their type, Blue Highway have become a touchstone in contemporary bluegrass. In that 20 year span, all 11 of their albums have featured the same musicians that make up the group today. There's none of the regular member-swapping that often denotes bluegrass bands for Blue Highway...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-04-19
★★★★★
Bluegrass stalwarts Blue Highway have been around since 1994, and their newest full-length, Sounds of Home, is their seventh. The trick to maintaining such longevity rests in finding new inspiration in familiar places. This may be even truer for bluegrass than for other musical genres. It's not as if the drummer can throw in a few techno beats, for example, or the mandolin player can layer in some wah-wah effects. Still, for bluegrass fans, there is plenty to like on this record...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-11-21
★★★★★
Blue Highway performed its first gig on New Year's Eve in 1994 with its original lineup that includes the same consummate musicians that comprise the band today: Tim Stafford (guitar), Wayne Taylor (bass), Shawn Lane (mandolin, fiddle, guitar), Jason Burleson (banjo, guitar, mandolin), and Rob Ickes (Dobro, lap steel). Tim, Wayne and Shawn provide the vocals. Their early years found them associated with the reputable Rebel record label...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2011-10-13
★★★★★
"Bluegrass supergroup" may sound like an oxymoron, but you've earned thetitle when you boast five singer-songwriters whose résumés includestints with Earl Scruggs, Alison Krauss, and Ricky Skaggs. On Marbletown (out June 7), Blue Highway apply their hot licks and high lonesomevocals to a stack of rueful tunes. Highlight: Guitarist Tim Stafford'swaltz "Quarter Moon" sounds like an instant classic. Why are these guyssuper? They can make your heart soar even as it's breaking.
- ew.com
2009-06-04
★★★★★
Bluegrass super-group Blue Highway has named their latest, Marbletown, after Mark Knopfler's song of the same name, one of only two non-originals on the record. That's not only a tribute to Knopfler, but also an indication of Blue Highway's selfless approach to contemporary bluegrass, and its attention to the song over the solo...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-11-11
★★★★★
Contemporary bluegrass at its best, this album contains masterful playing, inspired singing, and memorable songwriting. Blue Highway turn in an affecting vocal and instrumental performance on guitarist Tim Stafford's haunting "The Rounder," as well as ripping through a cover of Merle Haggard's "Huntsville" and showcasing their gospel side on a soul-stirring arrangement of the traditional "God Moves in a Windstorm...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Contemporary bluegrass supergroup Blue Highway's gospel album Wondrous Love shines brightly with reverent harmonies and hard-earned precision. Expertly recorded and produced, each voice gets equal space and every instrument's strum is clean and warm, intimate and clear...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Consistently turning in the best contemporary bluegrass performances on record, Blue Mountain continues their streak with Still Climbing Mountains. Vocalist Tim Stafford and the exceptional dobroist Rob Ickes are well-worth every IBMA award they've won, and the songs remain as strong as any the band has recorded before. An early highlight is the blistering instrumental "Monrobro," featuring some of the fastest dobro playing on record, and the rousing harmonies of "Danville Pike...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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