The vast majority of bluegrass bands are local ones. Most of the national bands with shiny big buses wrapped in graphics displaying the band’s name have sprung from the primordial soup of local and regional bands that are found, to […]
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The weather is cooling a bit, the stages are going up, the kegs of FreshGrass IPA are being rolled in, and the banjos will soon be tuned. Yes, it’s time again for the FreshGrass Festival. This will be my third […]
We talk a lot about the balance of tradition and innovation here at No Depression and within the FreshGrass Foundation. The balance and blend of those two things is what, we believe, makes this music we love so vibrant and […]
Though it’s been barely a year since Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver’s last release, there’s been a thorough change in personnel, with but one member remaining. Three departing musicians, including longtimer Jamie Dailey, have been replaced, and for the first time, […]
A select few musicians have, while exploring their own unique sound, plugged into traditional music at its spiritual core (Duke Ellington would probably head the list). For almost three decades and dozens of recordings, that vital connection has energized the […]
Surely it hasn’t escaped notice that we are enjoying a rare and multi-generational bluegrass renaissance. It is easy to take for granted that the next album from, say, Alison Krauss or Nickel Creek or the Del McCoury Band will be […]
For a few years, after a string of excellent gospel albums that owed at least as much to the southern gospel quartet tradition as to bluegrass, it looked as if Doyle Lawson and his band might never make a bluegrass […]
First, the facts: These two CDs collect four of the most influential bluegrass albums ever made. For anyone with an interest in bluegrass (as opposed to an individual artist here and there), they are required listening. Why? Because Doyle Lawson […]
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