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Steep Canyon Rangers are Asheville, North Carolina’s multi-GRAMMY winners, perennial Billboard chart-toppers, and frequent collaborators of the renowned banjoist (and occasional comedian) Steve Martin. Today, the band has shared the results of what is perhaps their most singular musical partnership to date – teaming with Philadelphia soul legends Boyz II Men and their hometown Asheville Symphony to completely overhaul the Rangers’ original “Be Still Moses,” which was first recorded on their 2007 breakout album Lovin' Pretty Women.

The idea to rework “Be Still Moses” was spearheaded by Steep Canyon Rangers’ producer Michael Selverne, who first told the band about this on a phone call with poor reception. Naturally, they laughed and swore they had misheard him before wrapping their head around Selverne’s plan: contrast Woody Platt’s bluegrass-flavored, sonorous baritone with the timeless vocal arrangements that defined Boyz II Men's stratospheric rise in the '90s. Thanks to legendary arranger and conductor Michael Bearden, a close friend of Selverne, the connection was made, and the results were nothing short of awe-striking to everyone involved.

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She walks past the soldiers out in the street
Stays to the side with her eyes on her feet
She hardly makes a whisper, just barely a word
And this was all the baby heard

Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Keep your head down

Lying on the bank where the cool water flows
A baby’s crying for a mother that he’ll never know
She says the pharaoh wants you to die
So I’m leaving you here if you’re gonna survive

Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Keep your head down

You’re gonna be there when he parts the tide
And leads all the people to the other side
Climb that mountain by the lord’s goodwill
But right now boy you better be still

Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Keep your head down

Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Keep your head down

Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Be still Moses, don’t make a sound
Keep your head down
Keep your head down
Keep your head down

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released August 30, 2019
2019, Asheville Symphony under exclusive license to Yep Roc Records

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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

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