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Made with the help of veteran bluegrass musicians, Jackson Melnick's sophomore album Abilene showcased what country/folk can be when a songwriter isn't afraid to make the tradition their own. The songwriter followed up with Yonder Come Jerusalem, featuring the single “Sorrow Fade Away”, an album that leans further into his homespun genre. “The album came together around Maybelle Carter. I wanted to breathe new life into the songs she worked on," says Melnick, who hails from rural Colorado and took up guitar at age ten to play songs he loved on his hometown streets. "I felt I'd been writing songs in the Carter Family spirit, and that spirit wouldn't have been without her. At the end of making the Abilene record, my collaborator Christopher Henry (Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band) asked me if I knew Maybelles’s stuff. I knew who she was but didn’t really know the extent of her role in things. I got more familiar, and I think Maybelle knew her musical work as part and parcel of her spiritual life, but she was never proselytizing. I try to work within that same jurisdiction, and when I realized I was inspired by her, I started to think of the album as a collection of devotionals. With this I felt like I was no longer held back by traditional arrangements and accompaniments, and the songs took on a life of their own."
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