Short Trip Home

1	Short Trip Home / Edgar Meyer 3:48
2	Hang, Hang / Edgar Meyer 5:10
3	In the Nick of Time / Edgar Meyer 6:10
4	Concert Duo, the Prequil / Edgar Meyer 3:42
5	BP / Edgar Meyer 3:26
6	If I Knew / Edgar Meyer 4:05
7	Ok, Allright / Edgar Meyer 3:54
8	Death by Triple Fiddle / Edgar Meyer 4:22
9	Concert Duo Movement 1 / Edgar Meyer 6:58
10	Concert Duo Movement 2 / Edgar Meyer 5:50
11	Concert Duo Movement 3 / Edgar Meyer 7:48
12	Concert Duo Movement 4 / Edgar Meyer 4:42

Barnes & Noble

Following up on his popular Appalachia Waltz album (featuring Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor), virtuoso double bass player and composer Edgar Meyer offers this new program of down-home music. These feel-good pieces have wryly waggish titles like "Concert Duo, the Prequel" and "Death by Triple Fiddle." The disc mixes Stravinsky-like rhythms with barn dances -- not surprising from a musician who's equally at home in the Grand Ole Opry and Carnegie Hall. They are played with confidence, precision, and infectious joy. Meyer is joined by star classical fiddler Joshua Bell, and Nashville veterans Sam Bush on mandolin and violin and Mike Marshall on guitar, mandolin, and violin. Short Trip Home is so sweet, one wishes it were longer. Benjamin Ivry

Gramophone

For the violinist, the technical demands of this music are very specific - minimum vibrato, a warm lower register for accompaniments and so on - and it's to Bell's immense credit that he sails through these new waters like an accomplished bluegrass veteran. Roger Thomas