What little is known about the young tenor banjo-playing woman seen in this recently discovered cabinet card photograph is quite intriguing. A handwritten inscription on its reverse informs only that this is: “Annie Jackson (Mrs. J.N. Pyncheon) My Mother.” […]
Pages of Paperwork from Kansas City quartet Levee Town sounds more like it came from the UK rather than the heartland. The fourteen song set is a fresh mix of British invasion, surf rock, classic blues sensibility and rockabilly bravado. […]
Straight out of Sin City, it’s the Turnstyled, Junkpiled Pimp Podcast #02, where Rolling Stone meets Hee Haw, with hosts, Buffalo Badass and her sidekick, Little Squirrel, the self-proclaimed Pancho and Lefty of Podcasts. Bringing the latest and greatest […]
PRESS RELEASE: Album contains 15 years of influential bluegrass guitarist Rice’s interpretations of songs by “The Father of Bluegrass Music.” BURLINGTON, Mass. — Over the past year’s Bill Monroe Centennial there have been numerous anthologies of various artists doing […]
PRESS RELEASE: Album contains 15 years of influential bluegrass guitarist Rice’s interpretations of songs by “The Father of Bluegrass Music.” BURLINGTON, Mass. — Over the past year’s Bill Monroe Centennial there have been numerous anthologies of various artists doing their […]
Written by Jennifer for Now This Sound Is Brave. When I came to the end of this book, I closed the back cover slowly, and rested my fingertips on it, pulling myself back to the present while the the […]
Do you have a spare minute for me, yes? I would like to tell you briefly the tragic story of a poor black stableboy whohappily jumped through life but ended up, against his own will, to be an icon of […]
The Tuttles, “Pins and Needles.” Not too long ago, troubadours went from town to town performing original and traditional songs to the locals who would then teach them to someone else. Music was up close and personal, and a […]
This concert on CD and DVD is a real bluegrass ,Christmas treat, recorded live at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. A very relaxed concert featuring The Whites and Ricky Skaggs with Kentucky Thunder. What a treat to watch […]
Madison Violet The Good in Goodbye Back in October I thought that I would die a happy man if I never had to hear another album of female harmonic folk ever again; as I was being bombarded with Sisters, […]
