Recently I wrote a review of Holly Gleason’s marvelous new book, Woman Walk the Line, a collection of essays written by 27 highly accomplished women writing about 27 female country artists. These fairly compact essays vividly present the the impact the performers’ music and […]
Sister Sadie, a five-member super band composed of premier performers from across the bluegrass spectrum, first came together as what looked like something of a lark for a “one-off” show at the Station Inn in Nashville. The Station Inn’s history dates […]
Dale Ann Bradley was raised on unaccompanied church hymns in rural southeastern Kentucky near Renfro Valley, home of the Coon Creek Girls — the first all-female string band on the radio in the 1930s. Bradley’s uncle, who’d migrated to Detroit, […]
In the ’90s, Dale Ann Bradley has come to bluegrass notoriety with the New Coon Creek Girls, whose name derives from the old-time ensemble Coon Creek Girls. That band recorded for Vocalion in the ’30s and held a central role […]
