Praised by Bluegrass Unlimited magazine as "One of the lonesomest, hard-drivingest traditional bluegrass bands alive," High Country captures the spirit of classic bluegrass and keeps it fresh and lively. Freight favorites for most of their thirty-odd years as a band, High Country never ceases to delight with their driving rhythms, deft picking, and soulful singing.

Bandleader and mandolinist Butch Waller is joined by Larry Cohea on banjo, bassist Glenn Dauphin, fiddler Tom Bekeny, Bob Waller on guitar, and Jim Mintun on guitar and dobro. High Country's seventh album, The Earthquake (Strictly Country), firmly reinforced the band's status as California's premier band in the Bill Monroe and Stanley Brothers tradition, with its vital mix of powerful originals and standards, from blues to breakdowns to gospels sung in close harmony.