From Granmaw and me
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Reviews (3)
AllMusic
2017
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Thom Jurek
2017
"Washburn's singing allows the words to fall from her mouth like water and Fleck deliberately understates his fingerpicking style as she covers the rhythm and bass notes ... Fleck's playing just oozes mountain soul. The closer, "Bloomin' Rose," is a metaphorical narrative about the environment delivered though vehicles of British and Appalachian folk and hymnody. Stunningly beautiful and haunting, it is an arresting close to a compelling, imaginative album that is sometimes daunting for all the simplicity of its approach. Echo in the Valley is organic music-making at its very best".
No depression
d. 9. Oct. 2017
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Grant Britt
d. 9. Oct. 2017
"Fleck's mastery of space and timing puts him outside the canon of most string pluckers, even when what he's doing sounds vaguely traditional. Echo In the Valley is his second release with wife Abigail Washburn following the duo's Grammy-winning eponymous debut in 2016 ... Fleck and Washburn's picking has as much in common with China as Appalachia, and Washburn's yodeling could be home in either region as well. But you have to be careful interpreting the duo's work. The framework often is at odds with the message, in a good way, presented in such a way that you can't allow yourself to get carried away by the melody or lack thereof, needing to concentrate on the lyrics instead".
DownBeat
2018 February
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Bob Doerschuk
2018 February
"Echo In The Valley is to bluegrass as Charlie Parker was to New Orleans in the '20s: respectful of its roots, untethered in its ambitions and triumphant in bringing it all together".