Up All Night

Though the collection is new, the sextet's followers will find familiar touchstones in four previously-released hit singles that bookend the set: the nostalgic recollection of "Sleepy Little Town," sentimental favorites "Flowers And Lace" and "Thankful,"and the bluegrass gospel classic, "Traveling The Highway Home." In between, listeners will find another eight songs that fill in the portrait of a group at the height of their powers, blending soulful ballads, energetic traditional bluegrass, gospel songs and an outlook that centers on family, faith and the old home place. On Up All Night, that musical one-two punch delivers a group of songs supplied by some of the music's most successful writers, including Milan Miller ("Maybelle"), Rick Lang ("Thankful" and "Low Down Blues"), Ray Edwards ("Where My Darlin' Waits For Me," "This Ol' Train") and Jon Weisberger ("Up All Night" and "You Put Me First," the latter co-written with Blue Highway's Shawn Lane). There's even room for a signature instrumental, Roberts' "It's A String Thing," that gives the pickers a turn out front - one that, not surprisingly, they take full advantage of