Corn River is the debut album by the American band Blood Oranges, released in 1990.[2][3] The album is a mixture of country/bluesgrass covers and originals penned by Jim Ryan and Cheri Knight, who also share the vocal duties. The band supported the album with a North American tour.[4] Their arrangement of "High on a Mountaintop" served as the basis for Marty Stuart's version.[5]
The Boston Globe said that Corn River "is a stunner—glowing with male/ female harmonies reminiscent of Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris duets, along with some country rock and overdrive mandolin that make this a crossover marvel."[8]The Rocket noted that it "covers a lot of ground, without inconsistencies or misbegotten attempts at clever diversity."[9] The St. Louis Post-Dispatch called the band "the only effective rock/bluegrass fusion band around."[10] The Winston-Salem Journal labeled the music "a delightful, almost surreal hybrid of hillbilly hoedowns, Anglo-style folk and the sort of rural rock 'n' roll identified with the Band."[11]
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