Circles Around Me

Circles Around Me is an album by American bluegrass mandolin player Sam Bush, released through Sugar Hill Records in October 2009.

Reception
The album earned Bush a Grammy Award nomination for Best Bluegrass Album.

In his Allmusic review, music critic William Ruhlman wrote that the album "makes a good demonstration of Sam Bush's continuing mastery of the mandolin and his own niche in the bluegrass scene."

Track listing

 * 1) "Circles Around Me" (Jeff Black, Sam Bush) – 3:55
 * 2) "Diamond Joe" (Traditional) – 3:40
 * 3) "You Left Me Alone" (Tom Gray, Jerry Stuart) – 3:07
 * 4) "The Old North Woods" (Bush) – 4:10
 * 5) "Roll on Buddy, Roll On" (Teddy Wilburn, Doyle Wilburn) – 2:41
 * 6) "The Ballad of Stringbean and Estelle" (Bush, Guy Clark, Verlon Thompson) – 4:45
 * 7) "Blue Mountain" (Bush) – 6:09
 * 8) "Out on the Ocean" (Pete Kuykendall) – 2:54
 * 9) "Gold Heart Locket" (Black) – 4:17
 * 10) "Junior Heywood" (Bush, Edgar Meyer) – 6:36
 * 11) "Midnight on the Stormy Deep" (Traditional) – 3:52
 * 12) "Apple Blossom" (Traditional) – 1:35
 * 13) "Souvenir Bottles" (Bush, John Cowan, Stephen F. Brines) – 8:23
 * 14) "Whisper My Name/Hot Tamales" (Ebo Walker) – 7:23

Personnel

 * Jerry Douglas - resonator guitar
 * Cornelia Heard - violin
 * Byron House - acoustic bass, electric bass
 * Courtney Johnson - banjo
 * Del McCoury - guitar, vocals
 * Edgar Meyer - bass
 * George Meyer - violin
 * Stephen Mougin - guitar, mandolin, vocals
 * Scott Vestal - banjo