Circles Around Me

Circles Around Me is an album by American bluegrass mandolin player Sam Bush, released through Sugar Hill Records in October 2009.

Circles Around Me
Studio album by Sam Bush
Released	October 20, 2009 (2009-10-20)
Genre	Bluegrass
Label	Sugar Hill
Sam Bush chronology
Laps in Seven (2006) Circles Around Me (2009) Storyman (2016)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

The album earned Bush a Grammy Award nomination for Best Bluegrass Album.^[2]

In his Allmusic review, music critic William Ruhlman wrote that the album "makes a good demonstration of Sam Bush's continuing mastery of the mandolin and his own niche in the bluegrass scene."^[1]

Track listing

1. "Circles Around Me" (Jeff Black, Sam Bush) – 3:55
2. "Diamond Joe" (Traditional) – 3:40
3. "You Left Me Alone" (Tom Gray, Jerry Stuart) – 3:07
4. "The Old North Woods" (Bush) – 4:10
5. "Roll on Buddy, Roll On" (Teddy Wilburn, Doyle Wilburn) – 2:41
6. "The Ballad of Stringbean and Estelle" (Bush, Guy Clark, Verlon Thompson) – 4:45
7. "Blue Mountain" (Bush) – 6:09
8. "Out on the Ocean" (Pete Kuykendall) – 2:54
9. "Gold Heart Locket" (Black) – 4:17
10. "Junior Heywood" (Bush, Edgar Meyer) – 6:36
11. "Midnight on the Stormy Deep" (Traditional) – 3:52
12. "Apple Blossom" (Traditional) – 1:35
13. "Souvenir Bottles" (Bush, John Cowan, Stephen F. Brines) – 8:23
14. "Whisper My Name/Hot Tamales" (Ebo Walker) – 7:23

Personnel

• Jerry Douglas - resonator guitar
• Cornelia Heard - violin
• Byron House - acoustic bass, electric bass
• Courtney Johnson - banjo
• Del McCoury - guitar, vocals
• Edgar Meyer - bass
• George Meyer - violin
• Stephen Mougin - guitar, mandolin, vocals
• Scott Vestal - banjo