Three Cows and Two Horses

Yet another IBMA top male vocalist, Buddy Melton performs with Balsam Range and cuts hit bluegrass records with Milan Miller. Buddy is careful around cows these days, having suffered serious injuries in 2012, when a cow kicked the gate he was closing. It was the kind of farming accident common around. “Three Cows and Two Horses” is an evocation of hardscrabble childhood, from a nonagenarian pleased to be “around here to tell.” Andrea Zonn’s harmonies lift the dusty tale into the ether.