This week Fiddlefreak ponders the eternal question: can a music reviewer have a favorite band? Or should he? As it happens, I lucked into an advance copy of Outshine the Sun from Foghorn Stringband last weekend at the annual CBA Father’s Day Festival in […]
Silver Lining, the third album from the Honey Dewdrops, will be released on June 1st. It’s a record that Fiddlefreak alluded to in this previous post — and we are the lucky ones with an advance copy! As we hoped, Silver Lining […]
The new release from Evie Ladin Band is a perfect example of what Fiddlefreak likes to call oldternative bluegrass: music that springs from old-timey roots but branches out in exciting new directions. On banjo, fiddle, guitar, bass fiddle, and body percussion, the […]
Pale Imperfect Diamond from the Cedar Hill Refugees is scheduled for release on May 19 on Effigy Records. The liner notes read like a who’s-who of American folk roots players: Dr. Ralph Stanley, Marty Stuart, Randy Scruggs (son of Earl), […]
