Live at the Down Home

Personnel: Josh Miller (vocals, guitar, banjo); Tim Shelton (vocals, guitar); Joe Booher (mandolin); Jim VanCleve (fiddle).Audio Mixers: David Hall ; Tim Shelton.Liner Note Author: Randy Pitts.Recording information: The Down Home, Johnson City, TN (12/04/2010).Editors: David Hall ; Tim Shelton.Photographer: Erick Anderson .NewFound Road singer/guitarist Tim Shelton introduces "These Days," the second track on the band's sixth album, Live at the Down Home, by praising its songwriter, Jackson Browne, and asking the Tennessee club crowd to voice its approval, which it does. That's notable not only because Browne might have been considered persona non grata to a country or bluegrass audience because of his political views, but also because he is not known for his contributions to the bluegrass repertoire. Yet that is NewFound Road's approach here, to offer traditional arrangements of sometimes non-traditional material. So, even though the song list includes Earl Scruggs' "Ruben" and Carter