Bluegrass Breakdown: Visions, Part One

They’re a phenomenon that have have nothing to do with your eyesight, but everything to do with your imagination—or in some cases, everything to do with the supernatural. With the ample guidance of Jimmy Martin, Steve Martin & Edie Brickell, the Stanley Brothers, and Flatt & Scruggs, we’ll be looking at all manners of visions—from visions of love and visions of plenty to visions of Jesus and visions of golden crowns.PROGRAM PLAYLIST

• The Stanley Brothers: “Vision of the Promised Land” from The King Years 1961-1965(King)
• Flatt & Scruggs: “Amber Tresses Tied In Blue” from 1964-1969(Bear Family)
• Jimmy Martin: “20/20 Vision” from Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys(Bear Family)
• Steve Martin & Edie Brickell: “I Had a Vision” from So Familiar(Rounder)
• Carter Cantrell & Nightwind: “Vision of Love” from So Far Away(Neugrass)
• Mark Johnson & Emory Lester: “Forever True” from Acoustic Vision/Blockade Runner(Bangtown)
• Randy Waller: “The Vision” from Randy Waller(Landel)
• Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver: “A Vision of Jesus” from Once and For Always/The News Is Out(Rounder)
• Gary Blanton & the Gospel Crusaders: “Vision of Christ” from Sing Three Nails(Jessup)
• Don Rigsby: “Vision of a Golden Crown’ from A Vision(Sugar Hill)
• Daniel Crabtree: “A Vision of Heaven’ from In the Shadow of His Wings(Codel)
• Rob Ickes: “Be Thou My Vision” from Slide City(Rounder)
• Steve Spurgin: “Visions of Plenty” from Folk Remedies(Blue Night)
• The Dominion Bluegrass Boys: “Vision of You” from No Place Like Home(Weslyn)
• The Kitchen Dwellers: “Visions of More” from Ghost In the Bottle(self-released)
• Radford & Michelle Vance: “Banjo Vision” from Together(self-released)