From Muleskinner and Old & In The Way to the Bluegrass Album Band and the Dreadful Snakes, bluegrass music has produced a handful of short-lived supergroups. Eleven years into their tenure, Longview has fared better than most. Deep In The […]
Longview is a bluegrass supergroup first summoned into existence three albums ago by Rounder Records’ Ken Irwin, so there’s presumably a story of sorts behind the band’s new label affiliation. Whatever it is, the sextet has produced its most compelling […]
A poet once noted that tradition “cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour.” It implies “not only the pastness of the past, but of its presence.” To be “in the tradition,” then, […]
