Bluegrass guitar flatpicker and singer/songwriter Rebecca Frazier has spent a lot of time navigating the Rocky Mountains during her time as a Colorado resident, and that inspired her new single, “High Country Road Trip,” out now from Compass Records. The song captures a freedom and sense of possibility as well as the view “way up in the clouds.”
“High Country Road Trip” is the third single from Frazier’s upcoming album, Boarding Windows in Paradise, releasing Sept. 13, 2024. It’s her first collection of new material since 2013’s When We Fall.
Frazier’s tour through Colorado, Tennessee, West Virginia, her native Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Alabama, and Georgia, begins on June 12 with a performance at Lakewood, Colo.’s Bonfils Amphitheater.
Frazier shares about the new song:
My whole life has been a counterpoint of going with my gut and enjoying the moment while also considering intention and the bigger picture. I grew up on the water in Virginia, so I love going with the flow. But I’ve got a philosophical side that also makes me ask, ‘Where is this leading?’
This song is meant to capture that moment of joy somewhere in the middle: that elevated feeling of loving the lightness of not knowing what’s around the bend, and not necessarily trying to create a specific outcome.
Frazier began working on the song years ago, then asked another former Colorado resident, Rorey Carroll, to help her finish it. The track was Produced by Bill Wolf and features Béla Fleck on banjo, Sam Bush on mandolin, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Barry Bales on bass, Josh Swift on dobro, and Shelby Means and Adam Chaffins on harmony vocals.
In addition to the new single and already released songs “Make Hay While the Moon Shines” and “Available,” Boarding Windows in Paradise features four more tracks written or co-written by Frazier, along with her version of the traditional, “Saro Jane,” and her interpretation of Roy Orbison’s “It’s Over.”
Tour dates
June 12 – Bonfils Amphitheater, Lakewood, Colo.
June 14 – Palisade Bluegrass & Roots Festival, Riverbend Park, Palisade, Colo.
June 15 – Gold Hill Inn, Boulder, Colo.
June 16-21 – Steve Kaufman’s Acoustic Kamp, Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn.
July 14-18 – Bluegrass Week, Augusta Heritage Center, Elkins, W.Va.
July 19 – Bone Fire Smokehouse & Musictorium, Abingdon, Va.
July 20 – Doc & Rosa Lee Watson Music Fest, Cove Creek School, Sugar Grove, N.C.
Aug. 30-31 – Four Corners Folk Festival, Pagosa Springs, Colo.
Sept. 10 – Station Inn, Nashville, Tenn.
Sept. 20 – Deer Creek Coffeehouse, Darlington, Md.
Sept. 21 – Berlin Fiddlers Convention, Berlin, Md.
Sept. 21-22 – Maryland Folk Festival, Salisbury, Md.
Oct. 9 – The Spot on Kirk, Roanoke, Va.
Oct. 10 – The Tin Pan, Richmond, Va.
Oct. 11 – Easy Wind Farm, Burgess, Va.
Oct. 20 – Clubhouse on Highland, Birmingham, Ala.
Oct. 24 – White Horse Black Mountain, Black Mountain, N.C.
Oct. 25 – Muddy Creek Café & Listening Room, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Oct. 26 – The Down Home, Johnson City, Tenn.
Nov. 8 – Eddie Owen Presents: Red Clay Music Foundry, Duluth, Ga.
