Back with their first new music since the release of last year’s full-length The Winning Hand, Mountain Home Music Company’s durable hitmakers, Lonesome River Band serve up an old favorite from the bandleader and award-winning banjo player’s Sammy Shelor’s only solo project, the legendary 1997 release, Leading Roll.

"’I’m On To You’ is a song written by my friend Jimmy Yeary, who has become one of the most in-demand writers in Nashville,” recalls Shelor. “I recorded this song back in 1997, and it was the first song Jimmy had featured on an album. The album is long out of print, but this song kept making its way into sound checks and the show every now and then.”

It’s easy to see why that’s so. From start to finish, “I’m On To You” seems tailor-made for the signature sound LRB has maintained for decades, with an original performance that featured one-time members Dan Tyminski and Ronnie Bowman along with, among others, Hall of Famers Tony Rice and Jerry Douglas. It’s no surprise, then, that the update is nuanced, even though its muscular groove can hardly be called reverential. With guitarist Jesse Smathers taking the vocal lead, joined in the chorus by mandolinist Adam Miller (while Shelor recaps his harmony role from 1997), the remake keeps the classic tempo and banjo-led arrangement while swapping out Douglas’ dobro for supple fiddling from veteran Mike Hartgrove — and, in a move that will bring a smile to the face of any listener who recalls LRB’s Telecaster-fueled live takes on “Hobo Blues” some 30 years ago, adding Eddy Anderson’s chicken-pickin’ electric guitar, too.

“It has that 80s Country vibe that we felt would lend itself to the sound we are doing for this upcoming album,” Shelor notes with a grin. “We hope you like this version!”

"I'm On To You" is streaming in Dolby Atmos spatial audio on Apple Music, Amazon Music and TIDAL. Listen to it HERE.