The Deadly Gentlemen’s third release Roll Me, Tumble Me is out this summer from Rounder Records. The Boston-based group has a rootsy, folk influenced acoustic sound using traditional bluegrass instrumentation, but the music is harder to describe. More progressive than traditional... hipster
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Dan Miller is Going Through A Phase
Opening disclaimer: I've known Dan Miller for the past 20 years, ever since he moved east from California to southwest Virginia in 1998. Dan had uprooted his young family and bought a home in the thriving metropolis of Hiawassee, VA to
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Marty Raybon & Full Circle – The Back Forty
The Back Forty, so called to mark Marty Raybon’s 40th anniversary in the music business, is his latest release on the Rural Rhythm label (RR 1111). It consists of 10 songs, half of which Raybon helped to write and each
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The Sky is Weeping – Jimmy Bowen
Numerous bluegrass artists performing today got their start in the late 1980s and '90s, helping to solidify the country-tinged mix of traditional and contemporary bluegrass that is so popular these days. One of these artists is Jimmy Bowen, who, after
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Blue Side of the Moon – Blue Moon Rising
Although they have been through numerous personnel changes in just over a decade as a band, Blue Moon Rising has consistently released albums full of well-written modern traditional bluegrass tunes. With their latest album (their sixth as a band), Blue
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Walking Song – Ron Block
Ron Block is what you might call a complicated artist. If you pick the five, you probably see him as the powerful banjo player with Alison Krauss & Union Station. Guitarists think of Ron in that role with AKUS, as
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Donna Ulisse’s Gospel Collection
Anyone who is new to sweet-singing songwriter Donna Ulisse is in for a treat when listening to her new Gospel collection, I Am A Child of God. Regular fans, on the other hand, might feel a bit of déjà vu
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Bittersweet – Alice Gerrard
This review is a contribution from Louisa Branscomb, one of bluegrass music's most prolific and celebrated songwriters. Do the math: a legendary singer-songwriter singing her own, plus a producer who understands the impressive scope of the material and how to render
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The Hallelujah Side – Travis Alltop
While many of us think of hymns as the traditional, organ or piano accompanied songs we grew up singing in church, bluegrass musicians have long made a habit of adapting these sacred numbers to fit their style of music. One
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Album of the Week #34 – IIIrd Tyme Out’s Letter To Home
Am I the only one who still finds it hard to believe that IIIrd Tyme Out is over twenty years old? Maybe it's because their music still sounds as fresh. Maybe it's because Russell Moore's timeless voice sounds as good