PREMIERE: Della Mae — You Don't Have to Do That

Originally published on the Bluegrass Pride blog in August 2021. This piece served as the world premiere for this single, helping drive momentum for the album release on August 27, 2021.

After the year we've had, there is an undeniable drive to reunite. Bluegrass, by its nature, is powered by community and togetherness. It's all about learning from each other, bonding over late night jam sessions in a festival parking lot, and laughing as the sun cracks over the horizon just as instrument cases are latching shut for the night. In the end, we're all just one big family band.

That is what makes Della Mae's newest release, Family Reunion, such a perfect album for the moment. As a band pieced together with members spanning the eastern seaboard, the album itself is infused with the excitement and warmth of that first reunion that we're all waiting for. It's vulnerable, it's upbeat, it's driving. Listening to it carries the exact same feeling of being in a jam with all your favorite picker friends.