Sisk, Junior / If There's a Will There's a Way
| Album: | If There's a Will There's a Way | Collection: | Country | |
| Artist: | Sisk, Junior | Added: | Aug 2024 | |
| Label: | Mountain Fever Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2024-08-24 | Pull Date: | 2024-10-26 | Charts: | Country/Bluegrass |
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| Week Ending: | Oct 27 | Oct 20 | Sep 29 | Sep 22 | Sep 15 | Sep 8 | Sep 1 |
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| Airplays: | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 09, 2024: | The Iron Skillet
Nothing's Good About Goodbye |
4. | Nov 06, 2024: | Alex plays music
Nothing's Good About Goodbye |
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| 2. | Nov 09, 2024: | Music Casserole
If There's a Will There's a Way |
5. | Oct 29, 2024: | Traditions
If There's a Will There's a Way |
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| 3. | Nov 07, 2024: | The Fo'c'sle
Bluegrass Country |
6. | Oct 26, 2024: | where's my snail?
Wild and Wicked World |
Album Review
Be Sharp
Reviewed 2024-08-18
Reviewed 2024-08-18
BLUEGRASS
Virginia-based singer & guitarist Junior Sisk has apparently left behind his long-time band, Rambler’s Choice, and assembled a new group comprising guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and bass (the typical BG lineup). This album’s ten tracks provide a nice variety of material. Notable guests sing tracks #2 and #6; bandmate Heather Berry Mabe sings lead on track #5; I believe Junior sings lead on all other tracks.
FCC clean
1 * mid-tempo. a sweet & grateful love song (3:34)
2 * mid-tempo. Dan Tyminski (Allison Krauss & Union Station) sings an old Roger Miller tune - it’s more honky tonk than bluegrass - about a man whose woman has left him (2:54)
3 * mid-fast. cheerful & uplifting country gospel about redemption (2:22)
4 mid-tempo. maudlin Rodney Crowell song (also the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) reminiscing about growing up poor - daddy working hard, mama reading the Bible (3:43)
5 mid-fast. Female lead vocalist can’t wait to get home to Kentucky. Straight country (3:05)
6 mid-slow. Ricky Skaggs sits in on a Stanley Brothers tune about mother’s passing (3:23)
7 ** mid-fast. bright sounding breakup song with good singing & good playing (3:43)
8 ** mid-slow. country gospel ballad about keeping hope w lovely harmony singing (3:23)
9 ** slow. sad breakup song (with a grudge) sung very nicely (3:04)
10 fast. high-energy bluegrass number with some impressive picking (2:55)
Virginia-based singer & guitarist Junior Sisk has apparently left behind his long-time band, Rambler’s Choice, and assembled a new group comprising guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and bass (the typical BG lineup). This album’s ten tracks provide a nice variety of material. Notable guests sing tracks #2 and #6; bandmate Heather Berry Mabe sings lead on track #5; I believe Junior sings lead on all other tracks.
FCC clean
1 * mid-tempo. a sweet & grateful love song (3:34)
2 * mid-tempo. Dan Tyminski (Allison Krauss & Union Station) sings an old Roger Miller tune - it’s more honky tonk than bluegrass - about a man whose woman has left him (2:54)
3 * mid-fast. cheerful & uplifting country gospel about redemption (2:22)
4 mid-tempo. maudlin Rodney Crowell song (also the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) reminiscing about growing up poor - daddy working hard, mama reading the Bible (3:43)
5 mid-fast. Female lead vocalist can’t wait to get home to Kentucky. Straight country (3:05)
6 mid-slow. Ricky Skaggs sits in on a Stanley Brothers tune about mother’s passing (3:23)
7 ** mid-fast. bright sounding breakup song with good singing & good playing (3:43)
8 ** mid-slow. country gospel ballad about keeping hope w lovely harmony singing (3:23)
9 ** slow. sad breakup song (with a grudge) sung very nicely (3:04)
10 fast. high-energy bluegrass number with some impressive picking (2:55)
Track Listing
| 1. | What a Wonderful Life (3:34) | 6. | Memories of Mother (Feat. Ricky Skaggs) (3:23) | |||
| 2. | A Man Like Me (Feat. Dan Tyminski) (2:54) | 7. | Nothing's Good About Goodbye (3:43) | |||
| 3. | These Are They (3:42) | 8. | If There's a Will There's a Way (3:23) | |||
| 4. | Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream) (2:22) | 9. | Wild and Wicked World (3:04) | |||
| 5. | Bluegrass Country (3:05) | 10. | Old Cold Shoulder (2:55) |