CMT Blog: Archive

In 2009, Blue Highway turned the corner on 15 years together with the original lineup intact -- a remarkable achievement for any band, but especially so in bluegrass. Luckily, it's not too late for Rounder Records to acknowledge their longevity as the indie label released a new compilation, Some Day: The Fifteenth Anniversary Collection, on Tuesday (Jan. 19). The title track is a new recording of one of their oldest tunes, and they've also included two new selections -- "Cold and Lowdown Lonesome Blues" and "Bleeding for a Little Piece of Mind," with Darrell Scott lending his rich baritone to the latter. I'm also pleased to find my favorite Blue Highway tune on here -- "Still Climbing Mountains," which is sort of my personal anthem of perseverance. The band won an IBMA award for song of the year in 2008 with the cinematic "Through the Window of a Train," and I hope they keep chugging along for a long, long time.