Central Valley born and bred Gary Tackett’s DREAM as a 10 year old was to “play guitar on a Merle Haggard record”. “That was my only dream”. “Not to be a policeman, fireman, or doctor, but to be a sideman […]
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The list of Bela Fleck’s collaborators is a head-spinning kaleidoscope through modern music. Sam Bush and John Cowan in New Grass Revival, a group that redefined acoustic music. The out-there rhythm section of Roy and Victor Wooten and the polymath […]
Well, this is the second Christmas song that I have already reviewed this season. Mindy Smith has already released a five song EP last month. Mike has a really nice Video built around his song “Almost Christmas”, which is a […]
I realize that in this community of old hippies, post-punk latter-day newbie-parental types and the occasional bluegrass traditionalist who stumbles here by mistake because they think we all love to hear the “Orange Blossom Special” covered the same way six […]
Beautiful Scars is not an album that The Burning Angels have made before. It is an album that two of the band’s constant members (Mark Cunningham, Andrew Vickery) decided had to be made immediately after the release of Love & […]
I started making videos just to see if the new technology worked for me. Once I decided they were a pretty good way to share bluegrass music, it became inevitable that I would have to start a You Tube channel […]
At 52, I’m starting to experience some of the downsides that come with reaching “middle age”. No, I’m not talking about some of the vagaries that come with reaching this milestone, such as how my knees feel or the fact […]
Joe Ely remembers the last time he played a songwriters show in Virginia Beach quite well, thank you. He was on stage at the Pavilion in 1991 with John Hiatt, Guy Clark, and Lyle Lovett when Lovett invited an old […]
BLUE RODEO In Our Nature (Telesoul) For close to thirty years now, Canada’s Blue Rodeo has taken the road less traveled – and succeeded far beyond anyone’s expectations. The band emerged in the early 80’s as a countrified rock band […]
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