MUSIC

People, Places and Songs

Released in April, 2023, the long awaited follow up to Greg’s debut solo album (Songs of Heart and Home) is NOW AVAILABLE!!! Hard copies are available online and at public appearances. The album is available digitally from all the popular distribution channels.


Songs of Heart & Home

Greg Blake’s debut solo album, Songs of Heart & Home, was released in September, 2015, where he was joined by some of the greatest bluegrass musicians of today. On songs like "Dreaming of a Little Cabin" or "Turn Your Heart Toward Home", you can hear the gentle guidance of a pastor and a devout family man reflecting on the good path. While bluegrass gospel may be one of Greg's signature talents, he's certainly not averse to a little rough-and-tumble country singing, and his new album features a blazing bluegrass version of Johnny Cash's "Hey Porter" that shows off Blake's razor-sharp and lightning-fast guitar picking abilities. Drawing from a wide variety of song sources, from Cash to 80s country (Joe Diffy), to Canadian folk (Ian Tyson), to the original source himself, Big Mon, Greg Blake has a far ranging set of influences but a powerful Appalachian base to his music that resets these vocal gems in new ways.



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Jeff Scroggins & Colorado

Here’s a few numbers from the most recent recording efforts of Jeff Scroggins & Colorado.  Jeff and I came from many different influential streams, but they all converged in the pool of the tension between hard drivin’ traditional bluegrass from the patriarchs such as Monroe, Reno, Scruggs and the Stanleys and the early “Contemporary Bluegrass adaptations” executed by the Country Gentlemen, the Seldom Scene, Cliff Waldron, Country Gazette and the Newgrass Revival.  We love taking a not-so-worn bluegrass classic OR a song that we love from any genre and infuse it with the starkly contrasting individual contributions of each of the band members that, somehow, mysteriously turns into a pleasant sounding cohesive whole. Enjoy!