CROWE LAWSON & WILLIAMS Standing Tall and Tough Mountain Home 15022 mountainhomemusiccompany.com There are only a handful of the original bluegrass pioneers still active and performing or recording in any measure at all – … Continue reading →
Peggy Seeger Everything Changes Signet Music www.peggyseeger.com Everything Changes is not at all a Peggy Seeger recording I would have anticipated. It is far more a chanteuse album than an album of folk songs. … Continue reading →
Nate Leath and Friends Volume 2 Patuxent Music 224 www.pxrec.com A common lament heard in old time and bluegrass music circles at the end of the 20th Century went something like this: “All the … Continue reading →
The Carmonas The Carmonas Self-Released www.thecarmonasmusic.com The Carmonas are a family band built around singers Alison and Aaron and guitarist Chad. Their debut full-length album has eleven songs, all originals. Eben Cathey on banjo, … Continue reading →
Makem and Spain Sessions, Vol. 1 Red Biddy www.redbiddy.com If the name Makem rings a bell, it’s because Rory is the offspring of Irish folk legends Tommy and Sarah Makem. He once had a … Continue reading →
Whiskey Shivers Whiskey Shivers CBM 001 www.whiskeyshivers.com Long ago, bluegrass was dubbed folk music in overdrive. Decades later, punk’s faster-and-louder ethos experienced a faster/who-needs-louder breakaway as a new generation pogoed to fiddle breakdowns and … Continue reading →
Ani DiFranco Allergic To Water Righteous Babe www.righteousbabe.com Carpel Tunnel Syndrome may have forced her to tamper her power-cord guitar assault, but poetic depth and sharp-edged literacy remain as potent as ever on Ani … Continue reading →
Bob Dylan and The Band The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11 Columbia Legacy 888750 161222 www.legacyrecordings.com A legend in their time, Bob Dylan’s basement tapes were informal sessions recorded on three … Continue reading →
True North Elsebound True North www.truenorthbluegrass.com Particularly in the “Internet Age” of the past twenty years or so, the discussion of what is and what is not “bluegrass” has pushed the boundaries of the … Continue reading →
Poor Man’s Fortune Bayou Curious Poor Man’s Fortune www.poormansfortune.com What an intriguing album! I should have expected this from the album title, Bayou Curious, but the new album from Texas-based ensemble Poor Man’s Fortune … Continue reading →
