(From Part One) The world shares a voice when it comes to music, a central expression extracting the best and profoundest in us. Comprised always of sound, in its rhythms, reaches, and rampings up-and-down, music also includes silence, but not […]
Songwriters often find inspiration in personal trauma, and can sometimes find healing in such inspiration, too. Such was the case for Trout Steak Revival’s Will Koster, who found emotional healing in writing about a brain injury that left him in a […]
The 2017 Folk Alliance International Conference, with its many facets and some public access, occurred from February 15 to 19 in Kansas City. Part One Prelude – The Impressionist Merge of Folky World-ness in KC There is music and there […]
Travis McNamara and Will Koster were in the crowd when Tim O’Brien began singing “Megna’s” at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. About halfway through the tune about a neighborhood grocer who sells melons and strawberries, Koster turned to McNamara declaring he […]
It’s been five months since Denver-based Trout Steak Revival won the band competition at the 41st annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and the impact of that moment is just starting to set in. Winning the competition means Trout Steak Revival becomes […]
