This latest in the Pickin' On series from CMH Records — albums devoted to reimagining rock classics in the bluegrass vein — Bluegrass Rising seems especially appropriate. After all, Creedence Clearwater Revival built their music on a foundation of Americana, and
Central North Carolina guitarist Bob Dotson has released an instrumental album, Sunday Morning Hymns, featuring 14 popular gospel songs. It provides the listener with simple, easy listening melodies, a Cracker Barrel-type recording. Dotson, the Ace Hardware man of Hamlet, NC, is
Celebrating thirty years as a performing artist is a milestone in itself, but to have successfully run an internationally touring bluegrass band outside the US for that long is an even more impressive feat. Formed in 1995 in Finland, Jussi
The SteelDrivers have always managed to live up to the tough-as-nails image implied by their handle. Their's is a rocksteady sound that's both determined and decisive. Now, with their debut album for the iconic and recently revived Sun Records label,
Though Ashleigh Graham has always kept a hand in music, she's more recently returned to her bluegrass roots. After gracing stages at numerous southeastern US festivals, and recording her first album as a teenager, I'll Just Drive on Pinecastle Records brings us
Fiddler and singer Corrina Rose Logston Stephens — who goes here by the decidedly abbreviated name Rrinaco — has previously been known as one the principals in the bluegrass band High Fidelity. While making her solo bow for Rebel Records, she
Junior Sisk could sing the telephone book and make it sound lonesome. Add in the buttery smooth harmonies of Heather Mabe and a killer band with Johnathan Dillon (mandolin), Curt Love (bass), Tony Mabe (banjo and harmony vocals), and a
Zeb Snyder, guitarist with Appalachian Road Show, has released his first, self-titled solo album. The young multi-instrumentalist originally from North Carolina and now living in Tennessee admitted that recording/producing his own project has been on his bucket list for more
Having formed over a decade ago, Beg, Steal or Borrow, from northern Vermont, has evolved greatly since their early days of interpreting the music of Old & In The Way for fresh audiences. The group's latest release, One Eye for the
Credit Echo Valley with daring to expand the parameters of the traditional bluegrass template by tackling songs that break through barriers to cover rock and pop hits using bluegrass instruments alongside their original songs. A family band made up of
