Country music in America has long marketed towards and embodied an eclectic blend of common folk: typically, southern, lower-class, God-fearing, hard-working, blue-collar white men, found in Appalachian homes and hollers scattered well beneath the Mason-Dixon line. From the earliest decades […]
Thomm Jutz’ Facebook page has looked more like a chart feed than a social media site. But you can’t blame the prolific songwriter for the screen shots celebrating his plethora of recent hits. “#6, 7, 9 and 17 this […]
This second volume of Bear Family’s revealing, entertaining retrospective of the musical adventures of this singular singer will take listeners into surprising places — even those who figure they know Mac Wiseman’s work pretty well. The 114 tracks here begin […]
You’d figure Mac Wiseman would be one of the handful of universally recognized first-generation bluegrass giants familiar to listeners well beyond the hardcore fans of the genre. Before 1950, after all, he’d already dueted with Lester in Flatt & Scruggs’ […]
Mac Wiseman, “The Voice With A Heart”, was inducted into the bluegrass Hall of Honor ten years ago, but he’s been woefully underrepresented on CD, and consequently is probably the least familiar of the Hall’s members to anyone not immersed […]
