Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers at the 2021 Industrial Strength Bluegrass Festival - photo by Michael Gabbard Friday morning at the Industrial Strength Bluegrass Festival kicked off with a bang. The Doug Eyink Alternative Strings Scholarship fundraising breakfast was a
Reviews
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Something Sour, Something Sweet – Grain Thief
Something Sour, Something Sweet — Grain Thief's first release in three years — is a jolly, joyful, and energized set of songs and tunes that spotlights the bands proverbial polish as an old time string band of the first order.
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20th annual Al Ras Bluegrass and Old Time Festival in Barcelona
Closing jam at the 2021 Al Ras Bluegrass and Old Time Festival - photo by Eduardo Manzanera This review of the 2021 Al Ras Bluegrass & Old Time Festival in Barcelona is a contribution from Michael Luchtan, an American living and studying bluegrass
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Photos from Industrial Strength Bluegrass Festival
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver at Industrial Strength Bluegrass (11/11/21) - photo © Bill Warren The Industrial Strength Bluegrass Festival kicked off on Veteran’s Day 2021 at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio. The name may be new, but it is the
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Retrospective LSB Live – Larry Stephenson Band
Larry Stephenson has had a substantial career in bluegrass music. From his professional beginnings as a sideman with acts such as Bill Harrell & the Virginians and the Bluegrass Cardinals, audiences quickly came to love his distinctive high tenor vocals.
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Love Somebody – The Goodfellers
Covering someone else's song isn’t necessarily an achievement. If it's done consistently, it becomes either a pale excuse for a lack of original material, or a fallback position to keep an audience satisfied while biding time until one's muse returns.
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Chris Jones and the Night Drivers in Ann Arbor
Singer, songwriter, bandleader, Sirius/XM DJ, and - last but not least - Bluegrass Today humorist/writer, Chris Jones, started his annual Michigan tour at The Ark in Ann Arbor this past Thursday evening. The Night Drivers band is a unique blend of
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Rebuild – Zoe & Cloyd
"We are looking for answers," Zoe & Cloyd insist on Rebuild, the opening track from the duo's latest offering of the same name. A mix of new and old songs, the duo (Natalya Zoe Weinstein and John Cloyd Miller) set
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Steeldrivers and Michael Cleveland perform for WDVX in Oak Ridge
All the elements and advantages fell into place this past Saturday when radio station WDVX and corporate sponsor ORNL Federal Union joined forces with the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee to present the fourth and final entry in their 2021
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Renaissance – Valerie Smith
Valerie Smith is known in the bluegrass world as both a premier vocalist and songwriter. On her newest release, Renaissance, Smith has given us a collection of songs that focus on varying life themes, such as love, regret, and acceptance. While