Reviews

Best known up until now as the banjo player and chief provocateur for the band Che Apalache, Joe Troop took heart with the arrival of 2021, thanks to the election of a new president and hope that a series of

We found another of Florida’s bluegrass gems this past Friday night, J.T.’s Bluegrass in Titusville. J.T. Shealy has promoted shows in various venues in Titusville since 2007. They are now at the Shepard's Hall. The upcoming schedule presents the Amanda Cook Band

 Country Faith Bluegrass, the tenth in the Country Faith music compilation series is a nice survey of bluegrass Gospel music. According to the liner notes by Deborah Evans Price, this is the first album in the series to feature all

We made our annual visit to The Woodbine Opry in Georgia this past Friday evening for the first show of their 22nd year. They have done more than thousand shows in 21 years! This effort is completely supported by donations. Bill Garlen

Si Kahn's sadly overlooked 1997 bluegrass classic, Been a Long Time, gets a reboot nearly 25 years after it was originally issued, a belated attempt to make up for that fact that it languished in obscurity due to the lack of

It’s time for the annual challenge: Picking my "dozen" favorite bluegrass recordings for the previous year. First, the usual cautions. This list is obviously very subjective, just one guy's opinion. The list represents my favorites, not necessarily the best. And it's

The Gibson Brothers at the 2021 Jekyll Island Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren I heard a bass begin playing Friday morning in the Jekyll Island campground. I grabbed my camera and went exploring, and found three fellas – banjo,

Based in Portland, Oregon, Never Come Down are an astute outfit that weave a multi-textured dimension to their grassicana motif. There's a great deal of depth to their approach, one that finds them blending the nominal instrumental elements of traditional

Let us begin by saying that day one of the 45th Jekyll Island Bluegrass Festival was about Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. That being said, let's begin with the other bands that played throughout the day. Remedy Tree opened the show. They

There's something to be said for subtlety, even when it appears to substitute for flash and finesse. After all, it's often not a matter of how much music is thrown into the mix, but rather how it's applied. R. Wesley Carr