By W.J. Hallock Carolina Road – Back To My Roots Rural Rhythm Records Released: August, 2011 A bluegrass band with name recognition, a solid fan base and musical credentials has two choices when it comes time to record a new […]
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By Dan King Scenic Roots – “Grounded” Scenic Roots Music LLC 2012 As a reviewer for Prescription Bluegrass, I receive many album submissions from independent artists hoping to get a favorable review published on their work. Many of them contain admirable […]
By Dan King Steep Canyon Rangers – Nobody Knows You Rounder Records Released: April, 2012 Most folks these days have at least a casual awareness of the Steep Canyon Rangers from their affiliation with actor/comedian Steve Martin. The banjo picking […]
Throwing the listener straight into the deep end of the pool Gary Sunshine challenges perceptions with an opening track that sounds like a corroboration between Beck, Dylan, Cohen and The Suicide Twins. ‘If you see the Devil’ is the soundtrack […]
Last month, I wrote about the connections that my mother and I have found through music. That led me to thinking this month about me and my dad. Although I had thought about it for awhile, I couldn’t quite figure […]
I love that Sarah Beatty’s Twitter bio reads “Music and science. Science and music“. I completely get that. Being a recovering neuroscience nerd, I find nothing odd about having two loves in two seemingly opposite universes. I’ve been listening to […]
John Fullbright’s From The Ground Up is one of the best debut albums you’ll ever hear and I’ll stand on Steve Earle’s coffee table in Todd Snyder’s cowboy boots and say that. Let me begin again since I don’t know if […]
Living the Dream Albert Castiglia Blues Leaf Records June 12 2012 By Grant Britt Albert Castiglia should be huge. His guitar work is ferocious. Slinging barbed licks around like the Kings, Albert in particular, but also able to stick it […]
A newsgroup that I’m in recently posed this question: What song would you use to illustrate what rock and roll is to someone who had never heard it or had no idea what it was? A question as daunting as […]
Who would have thought songs about bears, wolves, and loneliness–penned by a woman living in a cabin in the woods with a heavy-heart–could be so arresting? Last night, Canadian song slinger Sarah MacDougall made her debut at NXNE (Toronto’s equivalent […]
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