More Behind the Picture Than the Wall

From the heartbreak harmonies of the ballads to the blitzkrieg instrumental breakdowns, the veteran Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver touch all the bluegrass bases on this follow-up to the more spiritually-focused You Gotta Dig a Little Deeper. Not that this secular album is lacking in inspirational material, as a revival of Leon Payne's "The Selfishness in Man" attests. There's also an otherworldly dimension to "The Phone Call," which tries to heal a fractured father-son relationship. Lawson sings lead on that one, and sounds close to the classic country of George Jones on the title track (where a family portrait fails to show the whole picture), though the younger, higher voice of Jamie Dailey handles most of the other leads. As the album's centerpiece, the instrumental "Tulsa Turn-a-Round" shines the spotlight on the bandleader's lickety-split mandolin. --Don McLeese