Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe

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Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe
Cherryholmes - Cherryholmes III.jpg
Studio album by
Cherryholmes
ReleasedSeptember 30, 2008
Genre Bluegrass, country
Length43:53
Label Skaggs Family Records
Producer Ben Isaacs
Cherryholmes chronology
Cherryholmes II: Black and White
(2007)		Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe
(2008)		Cherryholmes IV: Common Theads
(2010)

Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe is the third major-label studio album by Cherryholmes. The album was released on September 30, 2008 and was nominated for Best Bluegrass Album at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards.

Cherryholmes

Cherryholmes was an American bluegrass band from Los Angeles, California, made up of six members of the Cherryholmes family: father Jere (Pop), mother Sandy Lee, daughters Cia Leigh and Molly Kate, and sons B.J. and Skip.

The Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works in the bluegrass music genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".

51st Annual Grammy Awards award ceremony

The 51st Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, on February 8, 2009. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss were the biggest winners of the night, winning five awards including Album of the Year for their critically acclaimed album Raising Sand. Krauss became the sixth female solo artist to have won 5 awards in one night joining Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys, Norah Jones, Beyoncé Knowles, and Amy Winehouse. Lil Wayne received the most nominations with eight.

Contents

Content and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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With four members of the Cherryholmes family in their teens and early 20s at the time of the album's recording, many songs deal with the early pressures and emotions involving heartbreak. One example is "Devil in Disguise", a cover song co-written by Gram Parsons. Other tracks on the album include "This Is My Son", about a parent sending her child off to war, [3] and "Sumatra", which was nominated for Best Country Instrumental Performance at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. The album was nominated in the Best Bluegrass Album category. [4] It peaked at number three on the Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums chart and number 48 on the Top Country Albums chart. [5]

<i>Billboard</i> (magazine) American music magazine

Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style, and is also known for its music charts, including the Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular songs and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows.

Barry Mazor of American Songwriter wrote that "the ever-increasing vocal harmony strength, instrumental prowess, and original songwriting talent can’t be missed on this latest outing." [2] Allmusic's James Christopher Monger remarked that on this album, the band "do(es) away completely with the traditional, opting for a sleek batch of self-penned contemporary bluegrass numbers that lean closer to Nickel Creek and the Dixie Chicks than they do Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder." [1] Of the "Devil in Disguise" cover, Meredith Ochs of NPR said that "the song gives the Cherryholmes family a chance to demonstrate skill at that other bluegrass essential: harmonies, especially those that are genetically linked." [3]

Barry Mazor

Barry Mazor is a music journalist and the author of Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music, winner of Belmont University's Best Book on Country Music award in 2016, and "Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century," which won the same award in 2010. He has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal and he is a former senior editor and columnist for No Depression magazine. He is the host of the streaming radio show "Roots Now," on Nashville's AcmeRadioLIve.

<i>American Songwriter</i> American bimonthly magazine dedicated to the art of songwriting

American Songwriter is a bimonthly magazine, established in 1984 covering every aspect of the craft and art of songwriting. It features interviews, songwriting tips, news, reviews and lyric contest. The magazine is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

NPR US non-profit membership media organization

National Public Radio is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. NPR differs from other non-profit membership media organizations, such as AP, in that it was established by an act of Congress and most of its member stations are owned by government entities. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

Track listing

  1. "I Can Only Love You (So Much)"-3:05
  2. "The King as a Babe Comes Down"-4:05
  3. "Don't Believe"-2:43
  4. "This Is My Son"-3:38
  5. "Sumatra"-2:58
  6. "My Love for You Grows"-2:50
  7. "Goodbye"-3:07
  8. "Bleeding"-3:47
  9. "The Sailing Man"-3:05
  10. "Broken"-3:47
  11. "Devil in Disguise"-2:56
  12. "Mansker Spree/O'Coughlin's Reel"-3:18
  13. "Traveler"-3:22
  14. "[Untitled]"-1:32

Charts

Chart (2008-9)Peak
position
US Billboard Heatseekers Albums [5] 12
US Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums [5] 3
US Billboard Top Country Albums [5] 48

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References

  1. 1 2 Monger, James Christopher. "'Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe' Overview". Allmusic . Retrieved June 9, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Mazor, Barry (October 27, 2008). "'Cherryholmes III > Don't Believe'". American Songwriter . Retrieved June 9, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Ochs, Meredith (September 30, 2008). "Cherryholmes: Sweet Family Harmony". NPR . Retrieved June 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, George Strait Among Leading Grammy Nominees". CMT. Archived from the original on June 9, 2014. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "'Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe' Awards". Allmusic . Retrieved June 9, 2014.
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