Road Trip by John Reischman (mandolin) & John Miller (guitar)

It's hard to believe that it has been eleven years since we put out "The Bumpy Road" together. In those years, we've both been involved in a host of other recording projects, while all the while intending to do another John & John disc someday.

When we finally began to do some serious preparation for recording in late 2011, we found that we were both interested in enlisting instrumental support on several of the tunes we were planning to do, a different tack from our first two CDs, which were strictly duo projects. John Reischman's choice of mandola for playing "Stay, Stay" and "Quilombo" gives them a different sound, too.

If these are the ways that "Road Trip" differs from our two earlier CDs, I suppose it does share many of the characteristics of the music on those CDs, too: a commitment to melodic beauty, strongly felt rhythms and listening to each other. We hope you enjoy taking this "Road Trip" with us.

John Miller
May, 2013

I made my first recordings at the age of 21, a solo Country Blues album "First Degree Blues" and one with Bluegrass trailblazers Country Cooking. I released four more solo albums before I turned thirty. After a long lay-off, started recording again in the '90s with instrumental duos, duos where I backed singers, solo recording and larger ensembles. You'll be able to find it all here.

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