Arm in Arm, by Steep Canyon Rangers

Arm in Arm

by Steep Canyon Rangers

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besugo232425 Another album found that I love every track. Only just discovered these guys when I heard 'sweet spot' on MediaMonarchy.com and had to buy the track through Bandcamp and now purchased the vinyl of Arm in Arm too. Favorite track: One Drop of Rain.

perrasjodi I love every track on this album. It's so hard to choose one over another -- like choosing a favorite child. The Steep Canyon Rangers keep turning out better music than the album before, which I didn't even think was possible. Outstanding. Favorite track: Crystal Ship.

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1.	One Drop of Rain 04:09	lyrics	buy track
Chairs turned over on their sides Worse for the weather ‘round here tonight So put on your brave heart, put on your thickest skin It’s a fight to the end The worst bad habit I fell into Is wanting it all, all the time from you If I have to ask, I’ll ask for more Like a beggar at your door The need is endless but it don’t take much One drop of rain and we’re soft to the touch One drop of rain and we’re soft to the touch Mercy’s all I have to share And I’ll bring it to you and I’ll keep it there In the broken spaces the spirit moves It comes pouring through i can feel the pain, open me right up One drop of rain and we’re soft to the touch One drop of rain and we’re soft to the touch So cover me over Cover me over Cover me over, hold me under tonight and tell no lies And I’ll tell no lies Put your hands on me baby and feel me breathe There’s a storm raging inside of me If I shed one tear I’d flood this town And together we would drown Hearts grown hard ‘til they turn to dust One drop of rain and we’re soft to the touch And only love could make us so damn tough One drop of rain and we’re soft to the touch One drop of rain and we’re soft to the touch One drop of rain One drop of rain One drop of rain
2.	Sunny Days 05:04	lyrics	buy track
Sunny days They suit you well You were born to stand in the light of the angels I know all your places All your fair weather friends I know that I’ll see when those clouds roll in Looking for a quiet place To hide you away You stay one step ahead of the storm Looking for a bed that’s safe and warm I always find you at my door One step ahead of the storm You still got your suitcase And all your souvenirs You been dragging it ‘round with you now for all these years And all that you borrowed And all that you bought I guess it ain’t living dangerously if you don’t get caught And I”ll put some coffee on There ain’t nothing you’ve gotta say You stay one step ahead of the storm Looking for a bed that’s safe and warm I always find you at my door One step ahead of the storm One step ahead of the storm Is it too much to hope for that you’d be mine What i wouldn’t give to be with you just one time in the sunshine In the sunshine Yeah, in the sunshine You stay one step ahead of the storm Looking for a bed that’s safe and warm I always find you at my door One step ahead of the storm You stay one step ahead of the storm Looking for a bed that’s safe and warm I always find you at my door One step ahead of the storm Yeah, one step ahead of the storm Sunny days Sunny days Sunny days They suit you well
3.	Everything You Know 04:06	lyrics	buy track
Cortez sailed on his boat so brave It was too late to trade His treasures for feathers As he was sinking down under the waves Where his cannons won’t fire and his flags won’t wave no more Shipwrecked ghosts Floating like driftwood ‘Til one bright morning they come washing up on your shore Don’t tell ‘em everything thing you know Let the whole world wonder When the time is right to give up the gold Hold a little back for the folks back home Checked out of my room, walked down to the Rio Grande Fortune teller on the sidewalk Laughing at the way I talk He drew a map upon my hand Said what’s to be and what might have been So I pulled up these chains Set a course for the Spanish Main And I’ll be coming back someday, baby, but I don’t know when Don’t tell ‘em everything thing you know Let the whole world wonder When the time is right to give up the gold Hold a little back for the folks back home Empty handed ‘cept for a sidewalk rose Hey mama, it ain’t easy To keep that skillet good and greasy A pot of coffee on the stove Don’t tell ‘em everything thing you know Let the whole world wonder When the time is right to give up the gold Hold a little back for the folks back home Don’t tell ‘em everything thing you know Let the whole world wonder When the time is right to give up the gold Hold a little back for the folks back home
4.	Every River 04:20 video	lyrics	buy track
It’s been said every man has a need to find his glory Tooth and nail his fortune at any cost But I see it plain in the fields laid out before me All not gained in honest shall be lost Oh the careless way we cast aside the cries of a stranger What a ruthless age and it preys upon us all Somewhere ‘neath the anguish and the anger Sweet charity’s there just waiting on a call Oh sister don’t you know it well You can sow the seed but you just can’t tell Oh from the father to the soldiers son Love’s gonna keep them, every one Oh let the hallelujah play Sing it together in the old-time way Every stone must fall, every fear must fade Every river’s got to carry on Can’t you hear the wretched wheels filled with disaster Listen to the wreck and rumble of the mighty gears Bolts of war they’re falling, falling faster everyday All on a whim and a whisper in the tyrant’s ear But we shall not cave to to a house of deception We shall not cave to the kings living only for the crown Steady on through the seas of desperation Oh captain won’t you set that compass for the common ground Oh sister don’t you know it well You can sow the seed but you just can’t tell Oh from the father to the soldiers son Love’s gonna keep them, every one Oh let the hallelujah play Sing it together in the old-time way Every stone must fall, every fear must fade Every river’s got to carry on Oh sister don’t you know it well You can sow the seed but you just can’t tell Oh from the father to the soldiers son Love’s gonna keep them, every one Oh let the hallelujah play Sing it together in the old-time way Every stone must fall, every fear must fade Every river’s got to carry on Every stone must fall, every fear must fade Every river’s got to carry on
5.	Honey on My Tongue 03:23	lyrics	buy track
You’re gonna leave I better get used to that I thought I might watch your back All the time You introduced me to A whole wide world who Lights up the way I do When you walk up smiling Open me right up Find the joy of way too much Find the pain of never enough Dancing their dance Arm in arm Circling round this room Like the sun chasing the moon Yeah you open me up I’m in my bare feet Standing in the clover Got you buzzing around my head I don’t care if I get stung For a little bit of honey on my tongue For a little bit of honey on my tongue You can’t keep a secret Or leave a keepsake on the shelf Every little bit of yourself You give it away Is it mine to tell That you ought to go carefully Baby leave that care to me Run along and play I’m in my bare feet Standing in the clover Got you buzzing around my head I don’t care if I get stung For a little bit of honey on my tongue In my bare feet Standing in the clover Got you buzzing around my head I don’t care if I get stung For a little bit of honey on my tongue For a little bit of honey on my tongue For a little bit of honey on my tongue You’re gonna leave I better get used to that I thought I might watch your back All the time
6.	In the Next Life 04:08	lyrics	buy track
Once I had a lover who never held back Once I had another who wanted all I had It took a few years to remember them well To leave my tears right where they fell Maybe in the next life Maybe I’ll get it right Maybe in the next life Baby, give me one more try And I’ll wait my turn I’ve still got karma to burn Somewhere in a past life I must’ve been a real saint Hey, lucky me, born with money in the bank And to my future self, I’m sorry in advance But I’m feeling too good now To worry ‘bout a second chance Maybe in the next life Maybe I’ll get it right Maybe in the next life Baby, give me one more try And I’ll wait my turn I’ve still got karma to burn It’s too early to call, it’s too late to call sober When you were out in the woods, did you hear me fall over Falling on your quiet place, wrecking the scene Turning all your time away into some strange dream Maybe in the next life Maybe I’ll get it right Maybe in the next life Baby, give me one more try Maybe in the next life Maybe I’ll get it right Maybe in the next life Baby, give me one more try And I’ll wait my turn If it’s not too late to learn I’ve still got karma to burn
7.	Bullet in the Fire 04:42	lyrics	buy track
The day that he dropped out of school his father said he’d be a fool To hang around this little town too long But what his father didn’t know was Sara was starting to show And they didn’t give a damn if it was wrong Folks ‘round here they like to talk They love to think the road they walk’s the only way That’s what they say For a while there it was chaos there were hungry nights and tradeoffs Trying to dig their way out of that hole At night he’d sit out on the couch wondering if he was cut out to play this role With no control The man is a liar who says that he sees anything beyond this day The bullet in the fire is laughing at the choices and the plans we made It will give and it will take, break your heart But it cannot touch your mind and how it shines And the rest just fades over time Now his eyes are hard as stone, there’s not much left but skin and bone So far from how he’d pictured growing old All the ones that he’d proved right or wrong and all the times that he’d been strong And somehow he outlived them all When i asked him for the reason why he longs for the next season Why he’s holding on He told me, son The man is a liar who says that he sees anything beyond this day The bullet in the fire is laughing at the choices and the plans we made It will give and it will take, break your heart But it cannot touch your mind and how it shines And the rest just fades over time The man is a liar who says that he sees anything beyond this day The bullet in the fire is laughing at the choices and the plans we made It will give and it will take, break your heart But it cannot touch your mind and how it shines And the rest just fades over time
8.	Take My Mind (feat. Oliver Wood & Michael Bearden) 03:43 video	lyrics	buy track
Give me nothing to hold that you don’t mind breaking My nerves are on fire, my fingers are shaking I’ve been taking the news pretty good ‘til now Never did any good anyhow I’ve been racking my brain for a simple solution A little peace to replace my shattered illusion ‘Cause I’m losing the stories that I once believed Reality won’t let me be Take my mind Send it on the next thing flying On down the line Take my mind Take my mind Send it on the next thing flying On down the line Take my mind I could walk out in the rain, find me a rainbow Instead I sit in my room and pull the shade on the window But the shadow I cast never fades away It covers up my brightest days Take my mind Send it on the next thing flying On down the line Take my mind Take my mind Send it on the next thing flying On down the line Take my mind Waking up with the fear, she’s a mean ol’ mistress The cradle’s gonna fall, I can’t cover the distance My resistance is shot and my strength is gone Helpless as a sinking stone Take my mind Send it on the next thing flying On down the line Take my mind Take my mind Send it on the next thing flying On down the line Take my mind
9.	A Body Like Yours 05:02	lyrics	buy track
A body like yours fits just right with a body like mine Don’t you believe we can love all night if we take our time Daylight’s fading, no persuading ‘cause you know what’s on my mind A body like yours fits just right with a body like mine The taste of your kiss is sweet on my lips like homemade wine I love how it hits me the way that it gets me every time Daylight’s breaking no mistaking cause I know what’s on your mind A body like yours fits just right with a body like mine I’ve seen the blue skies and that LA county skyline I’ve seen the moon peek through the Carolina pines Felt the sand beneath my toes swimming in the Gulf of Mexico But I’ve never known anything so fine A body like yours fits just right with a body like mine A heart like yours knows how to love a heart like mine Giving me the rhythm, the rhyme and the reason to be living this life When I’m off track you bring me back to beating right in time With a body like yours held so tight to a body like mine I’ve seen the blue skies and that LA county skyline I’ve seen the moon peek through the Carolina pines Felt the sand beneath my toes swimming in the Gulf of Mexico But I’ve never known anything so fine A body like yours fits just right with a body like mine I’ve seen the blue sky and that LA county skyline I’ve seen the moon peek through the Carolina pines Felt the sand beneath my toes swimming in the Gulf of Mexico But I’ve never known anything so fine I’ve seen the blue sky and that LA county skyline I’ve seen the moon peek through the Carolina pines Felt the sand beneath my toes swimming in the Gulf of Mexico But I’ve never known anything so fine A body like yours fits just right with a body like mine A body like yours and a body like mine
10.	Afterglow 04:49	lyrics	buy track
Not an actor nor an action, just a quiet satisfaction If I’m stoned just let me be Underneath a quilt just as smooth as silk Leave me lying just as long you please Don’t mind me If I’m a sight to see All the band left town but I hung around There’s a sound that I was looking for I’m not ready yet to quit it ‘cause I might just forget it The minute that I walk out the door This might be paradise To see it all through innocent eyes I should be somewhere, I know But I’m enjoying the show Still in the afterglow Still in the afterglow Tie a string around my finger and let it linger Let it last While the fire’s still going, let’s don’t let this moment Go slipping off into the past This might be paradise To see it all through innocent eyes I should be somewhere, I know But I’m enjoying the show Still in the afterglow I’m not ready to go I’m enjoying the show Still in the afterglow Still in the afterglow Still in the afterglow Still in the afterglow I should be somewhere, I know But I’m enjoying the show Still in the afterglow I’m not ready to go I’m enjoying the show Still in the afterglow I should be somewhere, I know But I’m enjoying the show Still in the afterglow Still in the afterglow Still in the afterglow Still in the afterglow Not an actor nor an action, just a quiet satisfaction If I’m stoned just let me be
11.	Crystal Ship 03:55	lyrics	buy track
The leaves are turning gray She said the sky is filled with lead I’m weary to my bones and I can't sleep in my own bed She did not ask that I might follow That I might understand All she asked as I recall her by her footprints in the sand Oh, the crystal waters Oh, the crystal sea Oh, the crystal ship that took my love away from me Every creek and every raindrop Cries out with the sound For the sea she is their mother and she calls them to go down So the restless river runs Without a moment's peace To lose itself at last in the silence of the deep Oh, the crystal waters Oh, the crystal sea Oh, the crystal ship that took my love away from me And I fear there’ll be no stars Looking out from that far shore And I don’t know how you’ll find your way home anymore Oh, the crystal waters Oh, the crystal sea Oh, the crystal ship that took my love away from me

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For every copy of Steep Canyon Rangers' Arm in Arm sold (up to 2,000 albums), Wicked Weed Brewing will be donating $10 to Haywood Street's Downtown Welcome Table, an Asheville, NC-based organization that provides a fine dining experience meant to counter the notion often held by those living on the streets that "handouts, hand-me downs, and leftovers are all I deserve."

Whatever you call it – history, collective consciousness, experience – the Steep Canyon Rangers have a lot of it. As kids, they grew up listening to the rock, Americana, jazz, and blues that would one day inspire them to pick up instruments and make music of their own. A few years later they were young men on university campuses, playing bluegrass together at house parties and college bars. Now, after two decades as a band, they’re grown men with families, touring the world as GRAMMY Award-winning musicians, famous for high-powered live shows. Their new record, Arm in Arm, is an homage of sorts, both to the early influences that first sparked their dreams of playing music as well as the bluegrass tradition that initially carried them. It’s also an homage to the relationships that have borne the Steep Canyon Rangers to this moment, where their music is reflective of exactly who they are as artists, performers, collaborators, and friends.

It’s funny to hear a GRAMMY Award-winning band that’s been together for over twenty years and inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame talk about new possibilities, but age has a way of making things feel new, and the vibe on Arm in Arm feels new, but is it? The music is certainly a departure from the band’s earliest days of wearing suits, picking and grinning around a single microphone, but perhaps it’s also a return to the even earlier days when these men were young kids influenced by the sounds of electric guitars and skull-rattling drums. The music on Arm in Arm is brand new, but maybe it’s old. It’s expansive, evolutionary, and fresh, which is to say it’s pure and original. Whatever you call it, this is the best music the Steep Canyon Rangers have ever made.

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released October 16, 2020

2020, Yep Roc Records. All rights reserved.

Woody Platt: guitar, vocals
Graham Sharp: banjo, vocals
Mike Guggino: mandolin/mandola, vocals
Nicky Sanders: fiddle, vocals
Mike Ashworth: drums, vocals
Barrett Smith: bass, vocals

Produced by Steep Canyon Rangers and Brandon Bell
Recorded & Mixed by Brandon Bell at Southern Ground Studios in Nashville, TN
Mastered by Chris Boerner at Kitchen Mastering in Carrboro, NC

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Steep Canyon Rangers Asheville, North Carolina

Steep Canyon Rangers have spent two decades bending and shaping bluegrass, wedding it to pop, country, folk rock, and more to create something original and all their own. The genre-defying band has developed a remarkable catalog of original music that links them to the past while at the same time, demonstrates their ambitious intent to bring string-based music into contemporary relevance. ... more

shows

May 3

Birdfest

Pinewood, SC
May 10

Theater at Lime Kiln

Lexington, VA
May 17

The Wind Creek Event Center

Bethlehem, PA
May 18

Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena

Atlantic City, NJ
May 31

Bijou Theatre

Knoxville, TN
Jun 7

Salvage Station

Asheville, NC
Jun 14

Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Morrison, CO
Jun 15

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Vail, CO
Jun 20

Ryman Auditorium

Nashville, TN
Jul 20

Boulder Theater

Boulder, CO
Jul 26

Blue Note Napa

Napa, CA
Jul 26

Blue Note Napa

Napa, CA

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