“When he came to ask about making an album, we were seriously blown away,” says C.J. Lewandowski, mandolinist of Grammy-nominated bluegrass outfit The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys. The “he” mentioned above? Well, that’s Mr. Americana, himself, Jim Lauderdale. “It was really validating Jim Lauderdale calling us to do a bluegrass album,” says Lewandowski.
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Ben Garnett’s debut album, Imitation Fields, opens bravely, almost daring the casual listener to give up before anything recognizable as a tune emerges from the speakers. After two minutes of gentle cacophony, an angular theme emerges, tentative at first, played on banjo and fiddle.