Bluegrass has, I think often unfairly, been seen as culturally and politically conservative. Folks forget that when it first began, it rocked the boat of traditional music, sorta like what bebop was to swing. That tradition continued a few weeks ago in Raleigh, North Carolina, with lots […]
Located in Boston, Massachusetts — that bastion of Northeastern probity, where the “the Cabots speak only to Lodges, and the Lodges speak only to God” — Berklee College of Music is a hotbed of musical revolution and change more reminiscent of the […]
Don Rigsby made his solo recording debut with an all-gospel album. He sings and plays with traditional bluegrass “supergroup” Longview, and has been widely seen as the traditional anchor of the modern bluegrass pace-setting Lonesome River Band. But if you […]
