Dunlap & Mabe - Rychey
Running is a song I wrote about my tendencies to procrastinate and leave things until the last minute. It works along with someone who travels for work like a musician or a truck driver and the life of constantly going and working towards the next destination.
The video was filmed by Jack Dunlap, Robert Mabe, Mason Wright, Elizabeth Baker, and Scott Davis. It was filmed at a live show at Bluegrass in the Barn at Capon Crossing Farm in Hampshire County, WV. Jack Dunlap, Robert Mabe, Alex Kimble, Mason Wright, Danny Knicely, and the crowd attending the show appear in the video.
Jack Dunlap & Robert Mabe have been touring the country together since 2019; though collectively have performed and recorded with the likes of Larry Keel, Gina Furtado, Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike, Scythian, Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley, Bud's Collective, The Fly Birds, Dry Mill Road, Old Town Flood, Shannon Bielski & Moonlight Drive, Tim, and Savannah Finch and The Eastman Stringband, Lonesome Highway, Circa Blue, and Jakobs Ferry Stragglers, to name a few.
The band currently features Jack on guitar, Robert on banjo, Alex Kimble on bass, Mason Wright on fiddle, and Danny Knicely on mandolin. All masters of their instruments play a mix of original tunes, classic bluegrass numbers, jazz favorites, and covers anyone would recognize. With roots planted firmly in bluegrass, they stretch their sound in ways that all audiences will enjoy and leave the performance wanting more.
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Rychey is a songwriter, producer, keyboard player, drummer and vocalist based in UK. He describes the new song as follows ‘Tis a tale of a Wagon train protector (who has his own issues) looking after the safety of the travellers and pilgrims heading out West in the US, back in the day.
Rychey continues "To give you an idea, the chorus goes something (well completely) like this…
Different folks got their reasons for travelin' out west,
Some reasons, better than others.
Some men running away from their wives and their lives,
Some women runnin' off with their lovers
Then there's the cardsharp who owns Wagon 3,
That useta belong to me…"
This is a beautiful song that quickly draws the listener into both the story line and the gentle musical undercurrent. Describing the song as Country-ish “Wagon Train (Elopin’ and hopin’)” is all of that, but with a tenderness that feels genuine as the singer lives the part.
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