It’s been a long, tumultuous seven years since Ben Sollee released his 2017 chamber-bluegrass self-titled album, Ben Sollee & the Kentucky Native. Now the father of three, Sollee kept himself busy with soundtrack scores (LAND from director Robin Wright and […]
A lot of music fans are hitting the road in September. There’s AmericanaFest and FreshGrass and IBMA’s World of Bluegrass, and a wide array of smaller, local festivals that take advantage of cooling temperatures and the celebratory mood at the […]
I’m back after a week’s hiatus to cover the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Hopefully you guys all enjoyed the live reviews but this week I’m back with my regular batch of crowdfunding campaigns. This week’s group features a veteran […]
Ben Sollee was nine years old when his public school teacher introduced him to the cello. As he recounted the story at the Mothlight in Asheville, North Carolina, last night, the Kentucky native comes from a line of musicians who […]
“I’m out on the porch — it’s pushing 70 today and the dogwoods are in bloom.” Travis Young, the creative and organizational force behind Moonshiner’s Ball, is calling me from his home base in Lexington, Kentucky. I can hear a […]
If you really think about it, it’s kind of amazing how much a musician can do with just some wood and some strings. Consider Ben Sollee’s cello, on which he strums and fiddles and saws and percusses. There’s Alejandro Escovedo’s […]
One early Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago, Irene and I found ourselves driving north through Florida’s midlands, heading from a bluegrass festival to a state park near Orlando where we enjoy the quiet, the terrain, and the change […]
