Ms. Lynch has been hitting the road in the last couple of years with enough enthusiasm, energy and enjoyment to give the most boisterous youngster pause, and she’s done so with a crackerjack band that, through several personnel changes, has been exquisitely attuned to her signature blend of strength and delicacy, melancholy and gentle good humor, folk overtones and bluegrass drive. The departure of long-time guitarist, banjo player and harmony singer Jim Hurst was recently announced — this may well be his last Nashville gig with the band. It’s a loss that will surely have an impact, but Lynch has coped with previous changes before and come up shining each time. Remaining band members include the legendary Mark Schatz, whose bass talents are exceeded only by his hambone gifts, and seriously under-sung fiddle/mandolin man Jason Thomas, whose playing has exactly the right degree of lyricism to match Lynch’s world-class vocals.
Sat., Jan. 23, 9 p.m., 2010
Sat., Jan. 23, 9 p.m., 2010
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