Akin to Deep Roots and Rosin, Picks and Strings, Bloomin' Strings is a 14-song instrumental album of waltzes, hoedowns, bluegrass-romps, lilting lullabies and homemade country tunes. Many of the limbs on my family tree are no longer growing, they have passed from this life. In doing this project I was able to hear again, those ole waltzes, hoedowns and living-room-string romps, as little brother Jerry was on the upright piano or guitar, while dad, grandpa, grandma and my mom would sing and pick like there was no tomorrow. I wrote a line in a song one time that goes, "On Friday night our front room became Carnegie Hall".....this is a snapshot, musically speaking, into a piece of the world I grew up in. Instruments featured are: Fiddle, Mandolin, Banjo, Doghouse and Elec-Bass, Lap Steel, Classical Guitar, Reso-slide guitar, Pennywhistle and sundry-percussion items.