Ginny Hawker & Tracy Schwarz - Draw Closer

Most of Draw Closer was recorded live in Louisiana in a one-room house built in the early 1800s, and that's exactly the feel that predominates here, the unadorned feel of an intimate living room session with a group of dedicated old-timey musicians. Ginny Hawker's no frills tenor is the focus on most tracks, along with husband Tracy Schwarz's well-worn West Virginia mountain drawl, and the playing (Schwarz on guitar, Ron Stewart on mandolin and fiddle, Peter Schwarz on bass, and with producer Dirk Powell adding mandolin on two tracks) is wonderfully minimal and appropriate. Read More