I’d just like to say thanks again to all of the jam camp students at this year’s MBOTMA fest. It was a ton of fun working with all of you this year — and I know I’m also speaking for my fellow High 48s and for Willie Scott Bauer. We’ve posted pictures from jam camp on The High 48s’ website. Check ‘em out: www.thehigh48s.com.

And for those of you who’d like electronic copies of the version of Shenandoah Valley Breakdown we worked at jam camp and in my fiddle workshop, feel free to email me from the Contact page of this website  — I’d be happy to send those out. And, of course, feel free to email me with any lingering questions you might have about what we covered in jam camp or the workshop.

Take care,

Eric

The High 48s have just released their third CD. It’s called Up North, and it features eight High 48s originals, two bluegrass classics and a song we picked up from the Irish band The Pogues, as well as some smokin’ guest appearances from Mike Compton on mandolin (www.mikecompton.net/ ) and Randy Kohrs on dobro (www.randykohrs.com).

I’m usually pretty self-critical about my recordings, but I’m really, really happy with the way this CD turned out. I like it. I like it a lot! And I hope you do, too.

We’ve posted some sample tracks on The High 48s Facebook site — check it out. You can purchase a copy directly by emailing me through Contact page on this site (CDs are $15 plus $2 shipping), or at CD Baby (MP3 downloads are also available through CD Baby, and will be through iTunes in a couple weeks).

I haven’t gone away. I’m not lost in a blizzard. I haven’t quit the music business and enrolled in truck driving school. There are lots of gigs on the calendar (well, on my own calendar at least) and two High 48s CDs in the works (one mostly originals, the other mostly standards and all gospel), and more stuff TBA.

But the shelves will look a little bare here at www.ericchristopher.net while I’m at work on the new version of the website. And  in a couple of days the new site will be up in all of its widget-y glory, with no end of interactive gee-gaws that’ll surely enhance your pleasure and understanding of bluegrass music. Or at least my little corner of it. Stop back in a couple days and see what I’m talking about.

Until then…

Eric