★★★★★
A large contingent of Yonder Mountain String Band fans were out in full force at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons, Colorado for the live recording of this 23-track album at Kinfolk Celebration in September, 2003. The band's distinctive jamgrass sound is supplemented with the expert fiddling of Darol Anger. Four tracks at the end of the 2-CD album also include Rashad Eggleston and Brittany Haas...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2012-09-10
★★★★★
The concept is great: Liberate bluegrass' hot-shit riffing and blue-sky harmonies from its hidebound formalism and see where it flies. It's turf explored by the Dead and others. But while this Boulder, Colorado, crew brings dazzling chops to the table, the songwriting is less memorable. The high-lonesome stuff works best (the melancholy hoedown "Rain Still Falls"), and "Isolate" is a minimalist mold-breaker...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-09-05
★★★★★
"Yonder Mountain String Band" is bluegrass for those with pop sensibilities. The band, however, has been performing bluegrass for over seven years, and with their Vanguard debut they are experimenting, with mixed results."Sidewalk Stars" and "Angel" are fast-paced, down-home no-frills bluegrass tunes that will adequately feed the appetite of anyone with a craving for great musicianship. "How 'Bout You?" is much better suited for someone who really likes Top 40 radio...
- www.ink19.com
2009-07-20
★★★★★
Let's get one thing immediately straight: Yonder Mountain String Band will not pass muster in places like Harriman, Tennessee or Etowah, Georgia or Galax, Virginia. Those are places where the most raw and traditional forms of bluegrass music germinate. Only rarely has a band of "fer'ners" succeeded in capturing the hillbilly musemost notably Washington, D.C.'s Country Gentlemen with their spooky cover of "Can't You Hear Me Callin'" over three decades ago. As a rule you either have it in your ...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Since its inception, the Yonder Mountain String Band, which releases its own records through its Frog Pad label, has alternated studio releases with successive volumes of live albums all called Mountain Tracks. This time, Mountain Tracks, Vol. 4 follows Mountain Tracks, Vol. 3 without an intervening studio album. And that's fine. The group has made its reputation through its concerts, where the musicians can stretch out and try different things...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
As its title implies, Town By Town, the Yonder Mountain String Band's second studio recording and third CD overall, is something of a concept album about life on the road, the reality for the quartet's members since the group's formation...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
This double-disc set collects the highlights from a two-night concert by the Yonder Mountain String Band held at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons, CO, on September 12 and 13, 2003, at the Kinfolk Celebration the band throws each year for its fans. A bluegrass/jam band hybrid, Yonder Mountain is certain proof that the two genres have as many similarities as differences...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
This Nederland, CO, band's brand of string band music is as steeped in the jam band tradition as it is in the high and lonesome bluegrass sounds originated by Bill Monroe. Though this isn't the first band to blend these influences, driving rhythms and exceptional picking make for an enjoyable debut, if not one without definite weaknesses. The band's vocals and songwriting talents (all four members sing and write) simply don't equal its instrumental abilities...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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