All God’s Children, the newest album from East Nash Grass, confirms what listeners discovered on their 2023 release, Last Chance to Win: This band has all the bases covered. Their six-year residency at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge in Nashville built a huge fan base with their tight harmonies and stellar picking, as well as their witty repartee. And after the success of Last Chance, the band began touring widely.
East Nash Grass turned that experience into one of their early single releases from the project, “Hill Country Highway,” penned by the band’s mandolin player Harry Clark, who also sings lead. The consummate road song, it relates the challenge of so much time spent “sleepin’ in a motel bed [wishin’] it was my own,” as well as the images along the road as if seen through the car window:
Texas’ got them longhorns
Kansas grows that sweet corn
Arkansas is just thorns and coppers on the road sides
