Down in the Hollow

Emmitt wrote it and it opens the album, with Noam Pikelny on lead guitar for this track per the per-track credits. George Graham wrote that it sounds bluegrassy enough, with the addition of the drums and keyboards. We found no artist statement about the subject, no single, chart or video. Setlist.fm lists 430 performances, tied for third among their songs, and ranks it first among songs played with sit-ins, at 19 times.

An audience recording from the 2007 Telluride Bluegrass Festival, on June 24, has it as the twelfth and closing track, with guests Sam Bush, John Cowan, Jeff Coffin, Andy Hall, Tyler Grant and Jeff Austin. On September 22, 2023 Herman and Emmitt sat in with Billy Strings at his Renewal festival in Buena Vista, Colorado, with Emmitt on lead vocal. Our upload is presumably the studio version.