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Every so often, a bluegrass recording comes along that's as easy to enjoy as it is hard to describe. Sounds of the Mountains will delight fans with music that's at once comfortably familiar, refreshingly new and always unique. To listeners familiar with Junior Sisk, Tim Massey and Elmer Burchett from their work with Wyatt Rice & Santa Cruz, this album will be a revelation, the fulfillment of Jon Hartley Fox's description of a modern band with a traditional soul. What comes through clearly is the exuberance of skilled, passionate men making music as much for their own enjoyment as for any more tangible rewards. Perhaps Rambler's Choice are best described in the term they favor themselves: the Sounds of the Mountains are simply straight-ahead bluegrass. --Jon Weisberger, from his liner notes