Nonesuch Records announced today that the Carolina Chocolate Drops will be releasing a new four-song EP on January 25th. The EP will be a collaboration with Romanian gypsy stringband, Luminescent Orchestrii. I have to admit, I’m not familiar with Luminescent […]
For liberals like myself, yesterday was a tough though not surprising day. The past two years have found many progressives frustrated with the timidity of a Democratic party lacking the courage to vigorously take the reigns of near historic congressional […]
Halloween is now upon us. As you’re digging through your record collection or shopping online to find appropriate tunes for your All Hallow’s Eve party, you needn’t look beyond a couple of genres: bluegrass and traditional country. Sure, one can […]
In my last post, I reviewed the wonderfully raucous gospel-roots EP, The Night the Cumberland Came Alive by Mike Farris and the Cumberland Saints. The EP was inspired by the devastating flood that overtook Nashville last May. Part of the […]
Never will I forget that night last May when the merciless rains began pounding Nashville, dropping a record month’s worth of rainfall in less than forty-eight hours. The thunder and lightning would periodically subside, but the water never quit pouring […]
I was recently given a copy of the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band’s new album, Legacy. Frankly, I was a bit hesitant to even check out the album despite it having been given to me. I had always associated Rowan with […]
This just in from the good folks at The Bluegrass Blog. Cadillac Sky frontman Bryan Simpson announced that he has decided to leave the band. In an email to the Bluegrass Blog, Simpson cites a religious calling as his reason […]
I hate to commit one of the most overused cliches of music “criticism,” the forced paradox, but it just seems too damn appropriate here. Texas singer-songwriter Ramsay Midwood’s music is at once highly idiosyncratic but also as familiar as a […]
The history of any art form can eventually be traced back to its folk roots. The rich and subtle paintings of DaVinci or Vermeer have their antecedents in the simplified cave paintings of Lascaux. The delicate sculpture of Michelangelo, Bernini, […]
After listening to him for years, I was finally able to see Doc Watson live at the Ryman Auditorium in the mid-90s. Even by then, Watson had been a living legend for decades. Perhaps even more than his awe-inspiring guitar […]
