One of his ideas that took shape this fall, and winter is an original concept that wildly inspired not just Vollrath, but other performers he knows and respects. He came up with a unique idea, a new way of collaborating with other fiddle players, bass players, and guitarists. The idea was this: Vollrath would write the first half of a song, then send the recording to a musician who would write the second half. When he talks about this in-process project, the excitement is clear in his friendly, warm voice. It is easy to see that he loves what he does.
“That [first] day, I wrote the first 13 tunes,” he said. “I had people in mind as I was writing these tunes. It was kind of magical…it happened so fast.”
“Everybody said yes, I’m in, send me what you got,” Vollrath said.