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Fade to Bluegrass
Vol. 2: Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica
Genres: Pop, Rock

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Master of Puppets - Iron Horse, Burton, C.
2. The Thing That Should Not Be - Iron Horse, Hammett, K.
3. Memory Remains - Iron Horse, Hammett, K.
4. Creeping Death - Iron Horse, Burton, C.
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Iron Horse, Burton, C.
6. Harvester of Sorrow - Iron Horse, Hetfield, J.
7. To Live Is to Die - Iron Horse, Burton, C.
8. Sad But True - Iron Horse, Hetfield, J.
9. Frantic - Iron Horse, Hammett, K.
10. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Iron Horse, Hammett, K.

CD Details

All Artists: Fade to Bluegrass
Title: Vol. 2: Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Cmh Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 1/31/2006
Genres: Pop, Rock
Style: Tributes
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 027297895027

Synopsis

Album Description

From out of the metal storm rides Iron Horse, the Alabama bluegrass band with the passion to match Metallica song for song. Fade to Bluegrass Volume II is a hand-picked collection of Metallica hits, restrung and refined into beautiful acoustic jams. Reeling fiddles, blazing banjos and the sweetest harmonies prove that bluegrass and metal have more in common than meets the ear -- they?re both on a mission to connect fans to the music that moves them.

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CD Reviews

A Mighty Fine Pickin' 'n A-Singin'!

Gerald Bocook | Hattiesburg, MS USA | 10/31/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

""Fade to Bluegrass Volume II: The Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica" is, by any account, a very well-done experiment into the musical reassignment craze going around these days. Taking the hard, energetic, fast metal of one of the most well-known musical acts ever, and translating them to a slower, pluckier form of music known as Bluegrass.

Where "Fade to Bluegrass Volume II" succeeds is in breathing some new life into some slightly-aged tracks from 10+ years ago in some cases, as well as giving a new face to more recent tracks that might've been passed over because of the album they were on. But, where "Fade to Bluegrass Volume II" fails is in its grace; the original "Fade to Bluegrass" album is an all-time favorite of mine, and the tracks on it were not only well-done, but changed to bring familiarity and freshness to them, whereas a few of the tracks on Volume II feel... alien. A good example being the track "To Live is to Die". Originally a sweeping, epic, sorrow-filled song in rememberance of fallen bassist Cliff Burton, the version found on this Bluegrass translation is a short, under-four-minute li'l ditty with the once-spoken verse now being sung the whole way through. And while this does what the album sets out to do - takes these songs and give a new spin on them - it ends up hurting more than helping, as the original and translated versions bear little semblance to each other, and therefore hurting the overall feel of the product.

Most of this album is very, very good. But, there's just something lacking in this Volume that was present in the first. It's very difficult to put it in words, it's something aural, perhaps the feel that perhaps a couple of these tracks were rushed through without putting enough consideration into how to turn them from pounding metal to plucking bluegrass, and leaving the end result with a bit more to be desired."

An Excellent combination of the two genres

S. Hirt | Ohio | 10/31/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you like either Bluegrass or Metallica, you will love this cd. It is just as good, if not better than the first volume. All the songs are good, but my favorite has to be the rendition of "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)."