Video trailer for Casey Driessen

Casey Driessen has long been one of my favorite young musicians in Nashville, a fiddler who arrived via bluegrass channels but who has long been one of the most creative and experimental members of that fraternity. He's backed up Tim O'Brien, Steve Earle and plenty of others, and he's built his own cult fan following with his various bands, his work with Bela Fleck and his solo album 3D, released a couple of years ago on Sugar Hill Records. Now Casey has made a new solo record with the musical collaboration of multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott, bassist Viktor Krauss, drummer Matt Chamberlain and producer Jason Lehning. Casey asked me to capture some of the sessions and piece together this preview of the album, titled Oog (Dutch for eye and a reference to a famous M.C. Escher drawing), due early next year. It's up on our YouTube channel, but here's a version hosted at VIRB in hopes of getting better quality.