[Cover photo credit to Tom Turk]

Bluegrass band Sister Sadie’s Gena Britt has been making music for more than 30 years. Now, the banjo picker who has been nominated again for the IBMA’s Banjo Player of the Year award, has partnered with Mountain Home Music Company to release her first solo album in nearly six years.

Titled Streets, Rivers, Dreams & Heartaches, her latest collection shows her continued growth and movement towards new horizons. It arrives on November 7th, 2025.

Britt says:

I am so grateful to Mountain Home for believing in me and allowing me to create this music that I’m so very proud of. The musicians and singers that I assembled for this project sound so good together! We first played in an all-star configuration at the Station Inn, and it was so much fun that I wanted to continue that in the studio. These guys and gals truly poured their hearts and souls into these songs, and I cannot wait for the world to hear them!

The core team Britt put together includes award- winning fiddler Jason Carter and his one-time Travelin’ McCourys/Del McCoury Band mate Alan Bartram (acoustic bass, harmony vocals), singer-guitarist John Meador (Vince Gill Band) and Jonathan Dillon on mandolin. The album also includes contributions by East Nash Grass’s Jeff Partin (resonator guitar), Dillon’s Red Camel Collective bandmate and singer, Heather Berry Mabe, Balsam Range’s Caleb Smith, The Isaacs’ Ben Isaacs and old-time banjoist Tina Steffey.