Artists reveal themselves with every great work they create. Few bluegrass artists have peeled back the layers as dynamically as Dale Ann Bradley since her debut recording with the New Coon Creek Girls twelve years ago. All the while, she has stayed close to the touchstones of the music– passion, reality, spirituality, and rural-based values.

Catch Tomorrow is a bluegrass album like none other Dale Ann has recorded. Exceptional songs, expressive lead singing, powerful instrumentation, and creative arrangements are staples of her catalog, but this time the emotions go a little deeper, the stories ring a little truer, and Dale Ann’s voice sounds just a little more wistful, earthy, and inspired.

Dale Ann Bradley was born to sing bluegrass. That much is apparent from the first time one encounters her strong mountain soprano and is swept away by the tales of love, desperation, and loss that she favors. Dale Ann’s bluegrass roots run deep, all the way back to the rural Kentucky area in which she was raised.

“I was lucky,” Dale Ann reflects...

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