Mandolin player and singer Chris Thile's band Punch Brothers may have a standard bluegrass lineup
also including a guitar, banjo, fiddle, and bass, but if their music fits into the bluegrass category at all, it's only because of that instrumentation. ...
A staple of the Yep Roc roster since 2005, North Carolina's Chatham County Line often
get labeled as a bluegrass act, though that's only a small part of what they do. More than anything, they're an Americana string band focused ...
For two months in 1928, self-taught bluesman Mississippi John Hurt ventured to Memphis and New
York City to record; he then disappeared into the hills of the Mississippi Delta for 35 years of anonymity in his hometown, Avalon, where the ...
As sideman, bandleader, and visionary, septuagenarian Earl Scruggs has cut a swath through country music
history wide enough to have crossed property lines and infringed on rock music's turf, too. Such is the evidence on Earl Scruggs and Friends, what ...
Junior Brown's rumbling, strikingly deep voice, tasty electric and steel guitar playing, and splendid honky-tonk
and Western swing songs have made him a sensation in country circles. There's nothing phony or clichéd about Brown's music; this is the genuine, untutored, ...
In the '70s, Kicking Mule Records was to fingerpickers what Impulse! was to jazz, Fania
was to salsa, and Philadelphia International was to Philly soul: a major player in their field. Back then, pickers were (and still are) acoustic guitar-playing ...
A cover photograph of a dog wearing a hat with its big, ugly tongue thrust
into the foreground offers an introduction of sorts to Dollar Store's Money Music. It's as if the band is saying the music that the listener ...
Since she started making records on her own under the name La Sera, ex-Vivian Girls
member Katy Goodman has refined and revamped her sound from record to record, starting with the deeply reverbed girl-group approach of the debut La Sera ...
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