Black Twig Pickers: Jack Rose & the Black Twig Pickers

Pelt players Jack Rose and Mike Gangloff rummage in USA's folk music
history.

Sounding for all the world like a time capsule recording from early 20th
century America, this eponymous hook up between Jack Rose and Virginian
trio The Black Twig Pickers has such unadorned authenticity you can
almost hear needle scratching shellac as it spins and reels.  Combining
easy-rolling instrumentals with foot-stomping dance tunes, this is an
old-time hoedown of a record woven from rough-cut constituents: steel
guitars, see-saw fiddles, country, folk, and bluegrass styles.  Having
four pairs of hands and feet sunk deep in their musical heritage, old
friends Rose, Gangloff, Isak Howell and Nate Bowles rekindle the
campfire flames of an era past with the kind of lively, unself-conscious
simplicity too often in short supply amid the haste and clutter of
modern living.

-- Andrew Carden
Mojo