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"Closing The Gap" is a snapshot of the Mountain Drifters after a period of intense touring, of learning each other’s “isms” and instincts, and as a result slowly developing our collective “isms” and instincts as a unit. This album is MMD in our natural and instinctual state of BEING; raw, playful and free, the way the music is meant to be. The music is hopeful and optimistic and comes from the heart, and so we start the story off with this: “There’s a bright side somewhere, ain’t gonna rest until I find it,” . And we look at the world all around us, and that thought continues to resonate, The title track Allison de Groot's “Closing the Gap” feels like a race. Each note tries to catch up with the next, narrowing the gap and steadily propelling the tune from one section to the next. . .

Grammy-nominate fiddler and Berklee Visiting Scholar Bruce Molsky brings the next generation of roots players, guitar genre-bender Stash Wyslouch and master of the clawhammer banjo, Allison de Groot together for an audacious, joyful and compelling musical journey as Molsky’s Mountain Drifters.

A year in the making, we are proud to release Bruce Molsky’s most unique recording thus far. In grand Tiki Parlour style, it features a DVD & CD along with an informative booklet written by Bruce and old-time guitar genius/living encyclopedia Christopher Berry. It showcases tunings, history, personal anecdotes and of course the whimsical artwork of Angelina Elise. Bruce’s fiddle, banjo, guitar and vocal wizardry is beautifully showcased in Sight & Sound!
1. Shelving Rock
2. Old Virginia
3. Fiddle Or A Dram
4. Métis Set
5. Brothers and Sisters
6. Red Rocking Chair
7. Tie Your Dog, Sally Gal
8. Flying Indian
9. Come Home
10. Morgan on the Railroad
11. Married Man’s Blues
12. Laughing Boy Set
13. Polly Put the Kettle On
14. Bye Bye Little Girl
15. We’ll Have a Way Hoeing Corn
16. Solly’s Favorite/Old Sledge

At the Rauland International Winter Festival in February of this year, Bruce Molsky, Arto Järvelä and Ånon Egeland – all highly respected tradition-bearers and major figures in their respective traditions – met to play a concert together. A few free days scheduled before a concert at Oslo’s Rikscenen the following week turned into a session in the intimate studio at Rauland’s Department of Traditional Art and Traditional Music. The recordings they made there, together with live material from the Rikscenen concert, resulted in this album by three fantastic players at the top of their game.