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.
February 20, 2023
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Badger Mountain Dry Band creates bluegrass out of varied material
GEORGE — Almost anything can be turned into bluegrass, as the Badger Mountain Dry Band demonstrated at the George Community Hall on Saturday. “We play lots of different kinds and styles of music,” said Jim Honeyman, lead vocalist and mandolin player for BMDB. “Basically whatever we want, adapted into bluegrass style and played with bluegrass instruments.” Saturday’s set list covered a pretty broad range of music, all converted, as Honeyman said, run through the filter of mandolin, fiddle, guitar and high vocals (sung from the heart and through the nose, as banjo player Nick McLean said) that defines bluegrass.