The Wronglers With Jimmie Dale Gilmore

The Wronglers With Jimmie Dale Gilmore

The Wronglers are a San Francisco-based group that includes Warren Hellman, founder of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, that city's free equivalent to the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Through Jimmie Dale Gilmore's appearances at Hardly Strictly, he and banjoist Hellman struck up a friendship that's turned into this collection of Heirloom Music – traditional folk, blues, and country songs from the pre-World War II era of the 20th century that have come to define Americana. Backed by the sixpiece Wronglers, Gilmore warbles his way through "Big Rock Candy Mountain," "Deep Ellum Blues," and "In the Pines" in a sweetly reverent manner. Recalling a slightly polished picking party, one that occurs wherever acoustic instruments and those knowledgeable of the folk tradition gather, Heirloom Music earns its place in the parlor.