On her new album, On Banjo, Alison Brown devotes her usual careful attention to the sonic architecture of tunes. On these 10 tunes, she dwells in the spaces between the notes, listening for ways that her banjo and various other […]
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“What was born in Kentucky / is living in Raleigh now.” — Chatham County Line With eight stages and over 100 performing artists, this year’s International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass festivities, held in Raleigh, North Carolina, last week […]
No Depression has a seemingly subtle, yet extraordinarily important relationship with the FreshGrass Festival — an annual bluegrass and roots music festival that takes place at the Mass MoCA contemporary art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts. The presenting organization, the […]
It seems that while many of us have been focused on the rough and rowdy portion of roots music, there has been a revolution in bluegrass that is just as significant as the one in the early 1970s. Diversity is […]
The Banjo Jamboree in Čáslav, Czech Republic, is Europe’s oldest bluegrass festival. It’s been on my bucket list for years and I finally had the chance to play there last summer on the occasion of its 44th anniversary. Even though […]
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Winter 2016/Bluegrass Beyond issue of No Depression in print. When we’re not running a summer subscription drive (now through June 15), stories from the journal are exclusive to print. Subscribe today for just $6 […]
Bobby Osborne, the 85-year-old singer and mandolinist best known for the bluegrass music he started playing with his brother a half-century ago, has a new record out this week called Original. (Full disclosure: the album was made with the help […]
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