Circles Around Me is an album by American bluegrass mandolin player Sam Bush, released through Sugar Hill Records in October 2009.
Reception
The album earned Bush a Grammy Award nomination for Best Bluegrass Album.
In his Allmusic review, music critic William Ruhlman wrote that the album "makes a good demonstration of Sam Bush's continuing mastery of the mandolin and his own niche in the bluegrass scene."
Track listing "Circles Around Me" (Jeff Black, Sam Bush) – 3:55 "Diamond Joe" (Traditional) – 3:40 "You Left Me Alone" (Tom Gray, Jerry Stuart) – 3:07 "The Old North Woods" (Bush) – 4:10 "Roll on Buddy, Roll On" (Teddy Wilburn, Doyle Wilburn) – 2:41 "The Ballad of Stringbean and Estelle" (Bush, Guy Clark, Verlon Thompson) – 4:45 "Blue Mountain" (Bush) – 6:09 "Out on the Ocean" (Pete Kuykendall) – 2:54 "Gold Heart Locket" (Black) – 4:17 "Junior Heywood" (Bush, Edgar Meyer) – 6:36 "Midnight on the Stormy Deep" (Traditional) – 3:52 "Apple Blossom" (Traditional) – 1:35 "Souvenir Bottles" (Bush, John Cowan, Stephen F. Brines) – 8:23 "Whisper My Name/Hot Tamales" (Ebo Walker) – 7:23
Personnel Jerry Douglas - resonator guitar Cornelia Heard - violin Byron House - acoustic bass, electric bass Courtney Johnson - banjo Del McCoury - guitar, vocals Edgar Meyer - bass George Meyer - violin Stephen Mougin - guitar, mandolin, vocals Scott Vestal - banjo
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