Belleville, Illinois, five-piece Old Salt Union proves its skill as a modern stringband while mostly avoiding folk and bluegrass tropes on its new album Where the Dogs Don’t Bite. Bandmates Ryan Murphey (banjo), Justin Wallace (lead vocals and mandolin), John […]
Postmodern bluegrassers and 2015 FreshGrass Band Contest winners Old Salt Union are getting ready to release a new self-titled album, out August 4 via Compass Records. In advance of the album’s release, we’re premiering a brand new video for Old […]
I’m excited today to announce the first ever No Depression Singer-Songwriter Award, which we’re launching in conjunction with the FreshGrass Foundation. For the past several years, FreshGrass has awarded cash and instrument prizes to up-and-coming artists via banjo, fiddle, band, and duo contests. […]
The last full-bore music festival I attended was the 2008 Austin City Limits Festival. A great three-day lineup of musicians, but I remember feeling like a disoriented steer in a roundup in the intense heat and the dust, and being […]
