Flicker Of Love

Cast Iron was formed in 2019 and calls the Ashville, North Carolina area home. The members include Nick Dauphinais (mandolin), Andrew Blythe (banjo), Rob Sine (guitar), and Celia Millington-Wyckoff (bass), and for this project they have included fiddler James Schlender. 

The band’s pedigrees include stints with Mountain Faith, Larry Stephenson Band, Blue Wheel Drive, Whetstone Run, and others. This new project, their second, includes ten original tunes from the band members and a James Taylor cover. Blythe contributes his “Between A Rock And A Hard Place,” and “Wild Oats.”  Sine presents “When The Last Leaf Falls In Autumn,” “Let The Rain Pour,” “Train To Nowhere,” and the instrumental “Craggy Ridge,” and Dauphinais adds the instrumental “Wild Coyote.” 

The other tunes are co-written by the band members and include “Boca Grande,” “Rockview Pen,” and the title “Flicker of Love.” The cover tune is a good take on James Taylor’s “Today, Today, Today.” 

Cast Iron is quite a nice group, and this is a really nice collection of their well-crafted songs with solid arrangements, pleasant vocals and harmonies, and some really skillful playing castironbluegrass.com