“Wildwood” is already album number five for these North Carolina boys and while they have added some touches of drums and piano here and there, their acoustic brand of bluegrass doesn’t really need these enhancements to shine. Especially not when you’ve just written an instant classic called “Crop Comes In”, a song about a farmer working on the field while thinking about his girl. You’re instantly there beside him. It even makes you forget about the next song, “Porcelain Doll”, which is a bit too cheesy for me.
Luckily the band doesn’t fumble the ball on any of the other songs and as they strum and harmonize their way through the remainder of the songs, I can’t help but be instantly charmed. It’s like when I heard The Jayhawks for the first time… all of a sudden you realize that a genre you didn’t really care all that much for, can actually be really good as well.
Score: 7.5 out of 10
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