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Terry Baucom and Alan Bibey logged decades of prime bluegrass experience in such bands as Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, IIIrd Tyme Out, and Boone Creek, and their current group BlueRidge?s follow-up to Common Ground shines with the kind of confidence such resumés foster. In building their sound more around four-part Southern gospel singing than progressive instrumental interpretations, they carry on the bedrock bluegrass tradition, centering much of their repertoire around religious numbers such as the a cappella "Shifting Sands" and the call-and-response "My Lord?s Going to Set Me Free." And by spicing things up with such hot picking as Bibey?s banjo-driven instrumental "Vandiver" and the hard-luck love songs "Rock Hearts," "It?s All My Fault," and Charlie Moore?s "The Fiddler," they keep an impressive hand in the secular scene. But even with Ed Biggerstaff?s thrilling tenor vocal on "The New John Henry Blues," this is still largely an album for stay-at-home Sunday mornings, equally nurturing to spirit and soul. --Alanna Nash