Ron Stewart

All these musicians are multi-talented and often appear playing instruments that you may not expect them to.

Adam Steffey on mandolin, Ron Stewart on banjo, uh, Harold Nixon on bass, Keith Garrett on guitar, and here they are doing the song Never Again Will I Knock On Your Door.

The stars up in the sky remind me of your eyes.

And the way they used to gaze into mine.

And interestingly, she's got some of the guys from Boxcars playing on this album.

Um, Missy Werner's doing the lead vocals.

Ron Stewart is playing the banjo again and playing fiddle as well.

Uh, Tim Steffen on guitar, Alan Bibey on mandolin.

And I love his music and I'm getting to study with him coming up here, but he put together an amazing band.

You know, Ron Stewart, an amazing banjo player.

We got Michael Daves and me singing a duet.

Josh Gooding on mandolin.

Well, I'm going to play one of my all-time favourite tunes from Dan Tyminski.

from the album carry me across the mountain he's got a little bit of help on this song uh tony rice playing some rhythm guitars joey douglas on dobro ron stewart on banjo and uh barry bales on bass aubrey haney on fiddle can't get a better band than that and dan Tominsky is playing Madeline, and he does the tenor, he does the lead vocal, and Stan Tominsky is listed as a lead vocal.

That might be in the choruses or something like that.

It's a classic Jimmy Davis tune, and it's called I Dreamed of an Old Love Affair.

Yeah.

Before we were shooting, you were talking about building this habit through the pandemic of writing weekly with a friend of yours.

Do you do is that is that a habit that you've carried over from from earlier, from the days of like Blue Highway early days? Did you make a routine of it?

not back in those days it just like whenever i would come to town because you had to be sitting across from somebody in those days with you know you couldn't do it there was no electronic medium i couldn't just sit at the house in my pajamas and write songs which i can now which is so cool so no i didn't develop that until the pandemic started really just we started doing more zoom stuff you know

And so he said, Hey, you want to pick, you know, you've been picking with anybody.

I was like, well, we're thinking about putting this little group together, you know? And then Rob Ikes, I called him because he had gone out with Union Station a lot.

He was friends with Ron Block.

They had played in a band together up in California.