Corn River

Corn River is the debut album by the American band Blood Oranges, released in 1990. 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. Their arrangement of "High on a Mountaintop" served as the basis for Marty Stuart's version.

Critical reception

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." The Rocket noted that it "covers a lot of ground, without inconsistencies or misbegotten attempts at clever diversity." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch called the band "the only effective rock/bluegrass fusion band around." 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."