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
Week Ending: Oct 27 Oct 20 Sep 29 Sep 22 Sep 15 Sep 8 Sep 1
Airplays: 4 2 1 1 2 2 2

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 07, 2024: The Fo'c'sle
Bluegrass Country
4. Oct 26, 2024: where's my snail?
Wild and Wicked World
2. Nov 06, 2024: Alex plays music
Nothing's Good About Goodbye
5. Oct 22, 2024: Show 1
Nothing's Good About Goodbye
3. Oct 29, 2024: Traditions
If There's a Will There's a Way
6. Oct 22, 2024: Traditions
Wild and Wicked World

Album Review
Be Sharp
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)

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)