This is smooth British Columbia bluegrass and more from a fine Vancouver fiddler and singer who's also a longtime member of The Paperboys. Shannon Saunders is a smokey-voiced singer with a Norah Jones-like depth in her voice, and her songwriting and fiddling draw from country, gospel, and Celtic sources as well as traditional bluegrass roots. There's plenty of down-home fiddle, banjo, and high harmonies on this disk, like on the travelling song"See You in the Morning" and"San Juan Worm", a classic breakdown featuring Splinters banjo player Cam Salay, plus some different sounds too, like the traditional"Dark Hollow" arranged as a midtempo shuffle with slide guitar, or the slow, meditative fiddle tune"Bell Housing". Don't worry about getting splinters in your fingers; Cold November is a disk that fans of modern bluegrass will want to grab.(TN) Dirty Linen 2004