Que Sera Mi Vida - Gibson Brothers - 1980
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The
upstate New York bluegrass group known as the Gibson Brothers
is really two talented brothers and a father-and-son team who can
deliver a close-knit harmony without a hitch.
The brothers are
writer, banjoist, and vocalist Eric Gibson and writer, guitarist, and
vocalist Leigh Gibson. The father-and-son team is Junior Barber on
Resophonic guitar and son Mike Barber on acoustic bass. Brothers
Leigh and Eric began performing as adolescents, playing
gospel
instrumentals in the local church. They added singing harmonies to
their act a few years later, and performed numbers by artists such as
Buck Owens and Jim & Jesse. A musician by the name of Bob Fuller
made sure the young brothers were exposed to the music of bluegrass
greats like Red Allen, Bill Monroe, and Jimmy Martin.
Long Forgotten Dream In 1994, as a quartet, the Gibson Brothers recorded their debut album, Underneath a Harvest Moon, released by the independent label Big Elm Records. The album featured tunes like "Your Man in the Middle," "I Never Was Too Much," and
"Tears of Yesterday." The group's music moves from fun
and energetic to serious and deliberate, stirring in classic
bluegrass and roots country in a way that makes each song original
and the style all Gibson Brothers. In 1995, a performance at
Owensboro,
Kentucky, landed the group a contract with Hay Holler
Records. A year later, the Gibson Brothers released Long
Forgotten Dream. With numbers like "Good as Gold," "Little
Man in the Mirror," and "I Don't Know What to Do," the
album did well enough to earn a place on
the bluegrass charts,
holding ground there for months. The title song made it into the Top
30 of the Bluegrass Unlimited chart, reaching number ten.
Another
Night of Waiting In 1998, the album Another Night of Waiting was
released. One of
its tracks, "She Paints a Picture,"
climbed even higher on the charts than its predecessors. In October
of that same year, the Gibson Brothers signed on with the
Ceili Music label owned by Ricky Skaggs, who produced the group's
next album. Also in 1998, the Gibson
Brothers were named the
IBMA Emerging Artist of the Year. Two years later, the band issued
the playfully bittersweet Spread Your Wings. Bona Fide, which
appeared in 2000, marked their first for Sugar Hill; it included
covers of the Band's "Ophelia" and Gordon
Lightfoot's "Long
Way Back Home," the latter of which served as the title track
for their fifth album. The band released Red Letter Day in 2006,
followed by Iron and Diamonds in 2008, both on Sugar Hill.
Ring
the Bell In 2009, the Gibsons released Ring the Bell, the first of a
three album contract with Compass Records. Help My Brother followed
in 2011, with a guest cameo by Claire Lynch, and 2013's They Called
It Music featured the group's trademark combination of
original songs
sequenced amid standards to extend the bluegrass tradition.
Brotherhood
The Gibson Brothers issued Brotherhood in early 2015; it was
their first all-
covers record, and featured songs by the Everly
Brothers, the Louvin Brothers, Jesse McReynolds, Ralph Stanley, Bill
Church, and the York Brothers, as well as the Blue Sky Boys. It was
their debut offering for the Rounder label.
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