The Turner Family

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Barefoot Bluegrass

A new solo effort from Mountain View’s own Tiffany Turner



The Turner Family Gospel Bluegrass group has become one of Mountain View’s premiere groups. Noted for their heartfelt renditions of gospel standards as well as their own gospel compositions, the Turners are favorites of both local and visiting music lovers. After recording seven CDs with the family, eighteen year-old Tiffany Turner has just released a solo effort without the family, instead utilizing some of the genre’s top artists to back her up.

The Larry Nelson Family of nearby Clinton, Arkansas, contributed their enormous talents toward Tiffany’s latest CD by backing her up with their lilting four-part harmonies and tight instrumental efforts.. Britton Curry is widely known for his fiddle and mandolin work with such luminaries as Alan Jackson, Rascal Flats, Trace Adkins, Charlie Daniels, Billy Ray Cyrus and more. Britton added his inimitable talents to every cut on this CD. Another Southern Gospel star, Jeff Easter, plays piano on what has become Tiffany’s signature song, A Beautiful Place.

One of the Turner Family’s biggest inspirations came from the Bluegrass Gospel’s legendary Lewis Family, the first family of gospel bluegrass. So it was understandable when producing this CD that Tiffany contacted the zany and multi-talented Little Roy Lewis to provide his incredible banjo talents, and boy did he. Little Roy is widely known as being one of the best on the five-string and his renditions provided just the right flair on the instrumentals

The final track, The Ballad of Jed Clampett, is dedicated to bluegrass and five-string legend Earl Scruggs. Tiffany and Britton did the song justice first with a slow-tempo run-through but quickly moved on to a hard driving bluegrass beat that makes you tap your toes.

The only bad thing we can say about Tiffany’s first solo effort is that in spite of its eleven tracks it’s over too soon. That’s easily rectified by hitting the replay button.