The Chapmans at Cumberland Caverns
by Jon Weisberger
With a newish (and excellent) fiddle player in Tyler Beckett and a new record on a new label, Missouri bluegrassers The Chapmans roll into town on a high note. They put together Grown Up (A Revisionist History) on their own last year. Then they cooked up a deal with Compass Records that should get the album some well-earned attention, thanks to a nifty concept that finds them revisiting songs from the group’s first decade — which, startlingly enough for such a young bunch, ended a decade ago. A few guests pop up, including Noam Pikelny, Stuart Duncan and Rob Ickes, but the focus here is on how far the three brothers and their dad have come, and the music says it’s a long, long way. This is a group that doesn’t get to Nashville as often as they ought. They arguably don’t get the acclaim they deserve, either — at least, not yet.
Sat., March 20, 1 p.m., 2010
Sat., March 20, 1 p.m., 2010
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