With uncommon passion and devotion, High Lonesome traces the evolution of Bluegrass music, one of America's most vital musical fusions, from it's folk roots in the Kentucky hills through the innovations which shaped it's most modern forms. With over 100 songs and a keen thread of the cultural and historical forces running through them, High Lonesome is a vivid testament to the enduring strength of a music which has continued to find a voice over decades of shifting musical taste.