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 →
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 →
Bradford Lee Folk & The Bluegrass Playboys Somewhere Far Away Bradford Lee Folk www.bradfordleefolk.com A decade ago one of the hottest bands on the bluegrass circuit was Open Road, a Colorado-based outfit headed up by guitarist … Continue reading →
Seldom Scene Long Time … Seldom Scene Smithsonian/Folkways 40199 www.folkways.si.edu As a recap of the more than forty-year history of the Seldom Scene, the extensive liner booklet accompanying this new release is about as … Continue reading →
Nickel Creek A Dotted Line Nonesuch 541944 www.nonesuch.com In the late 1990s, a trio of prodigiously talented teenagers emerged from the Southern California bluegrass scene into the national folk/acoustic circuit as Nickel Creek. Sean … Continue reading →
Kathy Kallick Cut to the Chase Live Oak 590 www.kathykallick.com More than a decade before the arrival on the scene in the late 1980s of the teenaged wunderkind Alison Krauss, a band called The Good … Continue reading →
RHONDA VINCENT Only Me Upper Management 007 www.rhondavincent.com Rhonda Vincent’s new album attempts to straddle her stellar bluegrass heritage and her love of country music in a most peculiar way. She has made Only … Continue reading →
Various Artists You Are There Shanachie 622 www.shanachie.com Back in the previous century’s videocassette era, Shanachie put out a series of early-1950s live performances by country acts (including Chet Atkins, Ernest Tubb and Marty … Continue reading →
The Rosenthals Fly Away American Melody www.americanmelody.com As The Rosenthals, father and son Phil and Daniel Rosenthal cover a lot of musical ground. While Phil’s roots are in bluegrass, American folk balladry, and mountain music, … Continue reading →
JOHN COHEN The High & Lonesome Sound: The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb Steidl One day in 1959 in Daisy, KY, John Cohen got lucky. Cohen – musician, documentary photographer, fledgling filmmaker, and charter … Continue reading →
