The duo repair ruptured romances in high lonesome heartache songs My Heart Can’t Believe My Eyes and Find You.
And if fans suffer back injuries after 180 bpm banjo instrumental OMFG there’s instant relief at hand – fiddling banjo ace Dr Hamish Davidson provides running repairs at his Bendigo chiropractic clinic.
The good doctor and mandolinist brother Lachlan plunder similar wells as octogenarian mentor Dr Ralph Stanley on trips to Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee.
They wrote ten of the eleven songs on their turbo charged fifth album, which was produced in Nashville by Mark Thornton and Larry Marrs.
The duo whip cream with fellow fiddler Aubrey Haynie, guitarist Bryan Sutton, upright bassist Mike Bub and Randy Kohrs on dobro.
Jerry Salley, prolific collaborator with Australian artists, harmonises and mastered weather metaphors in Driving Into The Storm.
But the peak is social comment in Victoria and Write Me A Letter.
BY DAVID DAWSON
