Joe K. Walsh goes track by track through “Trust and Love”
By WTJU
Date: 05/02/2025
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Mandolinist Joe K. Walsh, a longtime favorite at WTJU, will stop by Sunset Road this Friday to go track by track through his latest album, “Trust and Love“, out now on Adhyâropa Records. You can listen over the air at 91.1FM and online at wtju.net.
Hailed by David Grisman as a “wonderful mandolin player”, and by Darol Anger as “one of the best mandolinists I’ve ever played with”, Portland, Maine-based musician Joe K. Walsh is known for his exceptional tone and taste, and his collaborations and recordings with acoustic luminaries including Darol Anger, Brittany Haas, Grant Gordy, Mike Block, Danny Barnes, Scott Nygaard, and Joy Kills Sorrow.
Trust and Love is a collection of instrumental love songs of a sort, beautiful melodic vignettes showcasing the power of musicians listening and reacting to each other, sensitive improvisors sharing a musical conversation and following the threads. Arriving in this Maximalist moment, this record is a gently insistent argument for a “less is more” approach to string band music, and a reminder that subtlety matters as much now as ever. This record features some of the most exciting instrumental voices in the bluegrass and folk music world: Rich Hinman (pedal steel/lap steel/guitar), Zack Hickman (bass), John Mailander (fiddle), Bobby Britt (fiddle), Dave Brophy (drums/percussion), and Joe on mandolin family instruments.
