I love surprises. On New Year’s Eve this year, one of our sons got married to a wonderful young woman who has enriched his life. The reception ended at midnight on one of the coldest nights of the year with […]
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“Old people always think their time, their format, was better. Mine actually was.” — Tom Petty on PBS’s Soundbreaking The bluegrass community, seemingly quite small, actually consists of thousands, perhaps millions, of people around the world who celebrate a musical form that, […]
We’re at the Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival in Tunbridge, VT, this weekend. Located in the hills of central Vermont, east of the Green Mountain National Forest and west of the Connecticut River that divides Vermont and New Hampshire, the Tunbridge […]
We’ve headed north towards home, which we won’t reach for another six weeks, leaving the live oaks, sandy soil, and winter friends behind, until we run into them at other events. Ringing in my ears is the oft-asked question, “Do […]
Who would’ve thought that Tom Petty’s halfway-sinister-sounding rock ‘n’ roll seduction “Cabin Down Below” would make a good bluegrass song? In the Gibson Brothers’ hands, it does. They moved it to a higher key, nudged the tempo a bit, and […]
The Gibson Brothers have been making bluegrass records for a decade now, and practically every review has been studded with references to “brother duets” and “sibling harmonies”. There’s sense to that, of course: Eric (banjo) and Leigh (guitar) are brothers, […]
Having spent four years in an ultimately fruitless effort to make a country album, Leigh and Eric Gibson appear intent on making up for the lost time, releasing their second Sugar Hill bluegrass disc just a year after their debut […]
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