Versatile sound
Grammy-winning guest guitarist Joe Smart, left, picks and sings on “Hallelujah, I’m Ready” while Jim Honeyman wrings high-speed notes from his mandolin.
Joel Martin/Columbia Basin Herald
The Badger Mountain Dry Band performs Saturday at the George Community Hall. From left: Guest guitarist Joe Smart, band leader Jim Honeyman, vocalist Kay Humphrys, Mike Zabel on bass, Nick McLean on banjo and Shawn Hughes, who played fiddle, mandolin and octave mandolin as well as guitar.
Mike Zabel plays a bass solo on “Comes Love.” The bluegrass instrumentation, especially the bass, turned a blues standard into something ethereal and more than a little unsettling.
Nick McLean, left, picks banjo and sings his own composition, “Woe is Me,” about the plight of coal miners in Roslyn. Fiddler Shawn Hughes switched to guitar for the song.
GEORGE — Almost anything can be turned into bluegrass, as the Badger Mountain Dry Band demonstrated at the George Community Hall on Saturday.
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