Even the strictest definers of hardcore bluegrass should be over the moon about the opening track of Jeff Scroggins & Colorado’s new album Over the Line. “Big Train,” a Ronnie Reno-penned classic, serves as the impetus for Scroggins (banjo) and […]
Whether you discovered Southern folk music through Flatt and Scruggs shilling Martha White flour on TV, the old church hymnal, or contemporary Americana, North Carolina-based band Balsam Range’s seventh full-length album, Aeonic, will whet your musical appetite with bluegrass precision […]
Musical cross-pollination among bluegrass players, country singers, and rock and rollers dates back to at least the 1960s folk revival, with the chasms between each genre narrowed ever since by genre-defiant acts ranging from The Byrds and the Grateful Dead […]
Country singer, guitarist, and songwriter Chely Wright’s coming out as a lesbian in May of 2010 not only liberated a woman from a secret she’d held since she was eight years old; it inflamed preexisting concerns within Music Row about […]
