Undercurrent

Paczosa and Jarosz produced it, with Paczosa and Shani Gandhi engineering, Paczosa mixing and Paul Blakemore mastering; the studio and dates were not found. Jarosz played vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, octave mandolin and banjo, with Luke Reynolds on guitars and pedal steel, Jedd Hughes on guitars and Mark Schatz on bass; Parker Millsap sings on "Comin' Undone", and Aoife O'Donovan and Sara Watkins appear on "Still Life". It reached number one on the Top Bluegrass chart and 117 on the Billboard 200, and won the Grammy for Best Folk Album, while "House of Mercy" won Best American Roots Performance at the 59th ceremony.

AllMusic's Thom Jurek gave it three and a half stars; the Wall Street Journal's Jim Fusilli called the songs direct, unadorned and thoroughly beautiful; PopMatters' Steve Horowitz gave it 8 out of 10 and wrote that it positively shines.