Here are some words from Tim Stafford of the bluegrass group "Blue Highway" regarding Greg's latest recording.

             If it hadn't been for Greg Cornett, I probably would 
never have gotten involved in bluegrass music.  He was the first guy 
I ever saw play a mandolin.  As students at Ketron High near 
Kingsport, TN, just a couple hollers over from Poor Valley, VA, we 
grew up together learning about the music.  Greg was three years 
older and always more accomplished than I was--his interests included everything from Elton John to old-time music.  But I went to my first bluegrass festival with him and his girlfriend in the mid-70s, and was hooked.  Later, we played in a group together for a couple of years--Greg was the main lead singer and I tried to tenor him.

             Greg was and is a natural musician, with loads of talent.  His piano improvisations in the choir room at Ketron left me amazed.  Later on, he took up clawhammer banjo and guitar and became adept at them as well.  He was always singing in that rich, honey  baritone, and he had a knack--people would stop what they were doing and listen when Greg started singing.  Ironically, he's become best known for his whistling.  I remember Greg whistling back then and was impressed, but never realized he'd take that talent so far.  If there's a better whistler out there, I'd like to hear them.

             On his debut solo recording, Greg whistles a couple tunes, including the title cut, with a virtuosity that demands re-listening.  His association with guitar and luthier virtuoso Wayne Henderson has taken him to far-flung places; Wayne plays here on  "Sweet Bunch of Daisies" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" (with bassist Butch Barker) while Greg whistles his heart out.  The beautiful "Margaret's Waltz" is a heartfelt tribute to his mother that also features brother Ted on fiddle.

But the majority of this record features, as Larry Sparks would say, "mainly Greg.........."  And rightly so.  Greg shows he's an adept and versatile musician with sparkling turns on "Mississippi Sawyer/Ragtime Annie," and "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine."  He's just a flat good singer too, as you can tell from "Dark as a Dungeon," "When You and I Were Young, Maggie," "Hobo's Lamentation," "Lula Walls," "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" and "Trials, Troubles, Tribulations."  Many are sparse arrangements with just an instrument and vocal; this showcases Greg's fine singing and admiration of acts ike Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family even more.  "Peggy-O" reflects the influence of longtime friend and mentor Wayne Chilcote, who sadly passed away in 2003.  I'm sure Greg will never forget watching Wayne, Frank Wing, Wiley Cox, John Guthrie and Eric Levine perform as Country Comfort at Ketron High in 1974.  I know I won't.

Needless to say, I'm a little biased when it comes to Greg and his music, but one listen and you'll agree there's a real talent here, the kind that old-time musicians used to wink at years ago in silent  smiles that said, "Watch this boy, he"s a good one."