JA0084 (Brett Ratliff - Cold Icy Mountain)

Description: Brett Ratliff was raised by a coal miner and teacher in Van Lear, Kentucky. As a youngster, Ratliff sang in church and along to recordings of Loretta Lynn and Hank Williams. As a teenager he played guitar for bluegrass bands. When Brett met musical father and son Jamie and Jesse Wells he became hooked on the moving, emotionally charged mountain music of his home. Since then, Ratliff has learned banjo tunes and ballads from some of the masters of old time music, like knock-down banjo player George Gibson of Knott County and Pike County fiddle and banjo player Paul David Smith.

Recordings for the 2008 release JA0084, Cold Icy Mountain, were recorded at Maggard Engineering Studio in Big Stone Gap, Virginia on May 5 & 7, 2007. The release was engineered by Jim Price, and mastered by Alan Maggard, and produced by Brett Ratliff and Julie Shepherd. Musicians included Brett Ratliff on banjo, Jesse Wells on fiddle, Adrian Powell on fiddle and mandolin, the Clack Mountain String Band, and Julie Shepherd flat foot dance.

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