It's back-to-work time for Sam Bush. The veteran bluegrass-and-more stylist and Kentucky Music Hall of Famer has spent the better part of the winter . . . studio session work, had to be put on hold. "But I'm getting ready to hit the ground running," Bush said in a recent phone interview. "Literally."

While listening to the latest Sam Bush album, “Circles Around Me,” I am reminded of the diverse talent of the veteran musician. In his career, . . . is one of the coolest pickers you will hear, and “Circles Around Me” stands as one more fine chapter in his on-going legacy as a supreme talent.

Sam Bush is a country and bluegrass legend. For over four decades, Bush and his mandolin and fiddle have redefined bluegrass by adding rock, jazz, . . . greatest bluegrass singers and songwriters of all-time. Circles Around Me just further solidifies his name among the pantheon of bluegrass legends.

They’re not the dreams from his youth, like when he would imagine himself playing on stage with the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe. That dream . . . “I went to Vassar’s house once, and he was watching football, without the sound on. And with his fiddle, he improvised a soundtrack for the game.