Artist Pert Near Sandstone
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Jenn Baechle
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David Ellis
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Pert Near Sandstone
Making traditional bluegrass in this day and age might strike some as the musical equivalent of posing for an old-timey sepia photograph, but Pert Near Standstone is one of the reasons the Midwestern bluegrass revival makes sense in the present tense. Hard as the Minnesota band tries to sound and look old-fashioned, the playing usually stings like a late-fall breeze off Lake Superior. Banjo, acoustic guitar, fiddle, and stand-up bass interlock so busily and brightly on the new album Paradise Hop that there almost isn’t time to bask in the group’s vocal harmonies.
Updated 11/10/2011
