This just came out in the Winter 2008 issue of Sing Out!

SHOREGRASS Going Home – Shaw Family Publishing
There was a time when bluegrass wasn't big business. Emphasis was placed on the true nature of the music, not the spit and polish available in the modern recording studio. Shoregrass is a throwback to those lazy Sunday afternoons at the music park with a picnic lunch and friends all around enjoying sincere and talented players providing the sweet music of the mountains.
Banjoist Frank Shaw and his wife, guitarist Barbara, are the core of Shoregrass. They hail from Connecticut and are joined by their son Jonathan on bass, Paul Pozzi on mandolin, and Stacey Phillips on Dobro and fiddle. Barbara and Frank both sing and between them have composed twelve of the sixteen selections on Going Home.
The CD opens with "The Letter" by Barbara, written after a songwriting workshop conducted by Bob Franke at the Old Songs Festival. The assignment was to write a song in the form of a letter. The subject is a familiar one to those of us who have moved far away, not able to visit the home place as often as in the past. The title track, which follows, was also written by Barbara. Its subject once again is universal – the everlasting searching for a home.
Further on in the CD, Stacey Phillips contributed the holiness hymn "Ruth and Naomi," another tune about restlessness and wandering. "I'm On My Way Back to the Old Home" is a tribute to Bill Monroe and, although many have recorded this classic, Frank and Barbara more than do it justice. The CD concludes with the ultimate question – Barbara's "When Will There Be Peace" with the hope of an end to the cycle of never-ending war.
Shoregrass is a refreshing reminder of what bluegrass music is really all about: a talented, family-based band that seem to truly relish playing and singing together. - TD

Nice to know that someone appreciates our music!