JOHN REISCHMAN and THE JAYBIRDS On A Winter’s Night Corvus 023 www.johnreischman.com Premier mandolinist, former Good Old Person, producer and stellar bandleader, John Reischman epitomizes the “true-vine” spirit of bluegrass music in the 21st … Continue reading →
Bluegrass has been mostly a boy’s club since it’d development in the 1940s. In the past decade and a half the rules have changed and we find more and more women leading or playing a featured role bands. It didn’t … Continue reading →
Greensky Bluegrass If Sorrows Swim Big Blue Zoo www.greenskybluegrass.com I popped this latest release from Michigan-based Greensky Bluegrass into iTunes, sank back into my chair to listen, and was about a third of the … Continue reading →
Billy Strings & Don Julin Fiddle Tune X Self-Released www.billystrings.com It seems unlikely that a phenomenally talented acoustic musician would just happen to have been born with what would turn out to be such a … Continue reading →
LAURIE and KATHY Sing the Songs of Vern and Ray Spruce and Maple Music 1012 www.laurielewis.com Laurie and Kathy are Laurie Lewis and Kathy Kallick. They have known each other and played together at least … Continue reading →
Fleck and Washburn Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn Rounder Records www.rounder.com When I first heard that Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn had married I thought it was a joke, though that was in part … Continue reading →
RICKY SKAGGS and SHARON WHITE Hearts Like Ours Skaggs Family www.rickyskaggs.com After 33 years of marriage, a passel of Grammys, CMAs and more between them, one of country music’s most celebrated couples finally decided it … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
