O'BRIEN,TIM - Where The River Meets The Road (Sealed) (CD)

Where the River Meets the Road is the fifteenth solo release from GRAMMY award winning artist, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Tim O'Brien. Each of the 12 tracks on the album is connected to his home state of West Virginia. Two originals, "Guardian Angel" and the title track "Where the River Meets the Road," tell deeply personal stories of O'Brien's family - the death of his older sister when he was a toddler, and the tale of his great grandfather moving to his hometown of Wheeling in the 1850s. The remaining ten songs were collected and compiled after more than a decade collaborating with the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame. Inducted into the Hall of Fame himself in 2013, his work with the organization helped connect him with the sheer width and breadth of music born of West Virginia's native sons and daughters. The project altogether paints a cohesive picture of the beauty and hardship that makes West Virginia the haunting, comforting, magnetic homeland that it is. All at once quintessentially West Virginian and archetypically Tim O'Brien.