Big Richard, "The Missing Stair" (DelFest Sessions)

Our ‪@DelFest1‬ Sessions continue with the second edition in our series from the McCoury-hosted festival, held over Memorial Day Weekend 2024. We were fortunate to have ‪@TheBluegrassSituation‬ contributors and videographers ‪@iknowweshould‬ on hand at the event in Cumberland, Maryland to capture intimate, riverside performances with some of the impressive acts on the DelFest lineup. This time, we're featuring Colorado-based string band, Big Richard (‪@BigRichardBand‬).

We've followed this genre-blending bluegrass group for more than a few years now, so we were delighted to sync up with Joy Adams, Eve Panning, Hazel Royer, and Bonnie Sims on the banks of the north branch of the Potomac River, where Maryland and West Virginia meet at the site that's been home to DelFest since it began in 2008. The band's first song is "The Missing Stair," an inspiring number co-written by Sims with artists and songwriters Melody Walker and Phoebe Hunt.

With a wide open groove, plenty of soul and passion, and an encouraging, challenging message, the lyrics process traumas, whether familial or generational, spoken or unspoken. There's pain, reckoning, and ultimately a tidy dose of redemption, all punctuated by gorgeous solos – especially by Adams on bluegrass- and old-time-inflected cello – and soaring collective vocals. This is a chorus for all of us to sing along, that's for sure.

Hear more at ‪@BigRichardBand‬ and http://www.bigrichardband.com/

Video: Bradley Wagner
Audio: Juan Soria
Drone footage: Christopher Weist

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