I bet there’s a good reason Nashville upright bassist, singer and songwriter Missy Raines won the Bluegrass Music Association’s Bass Player of the Year Award seven times (talent). But Raines doesn’t want to be pigeonholed to strictly grassy sonicspheres, and her material with The New Hip finds her experimenting with a more progressive style and incorporating jazz, pop, and rock lite textures. Have Gun Will Travel opens, as does Mark Newton & Steve Thomas.
— Leilani Polk