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.

The boys at Goodfellers - my new favorite band name - are back today with a new single, and a video presentation. And like their previous efforts, it's a grassed up version of a pop hit, this time from The

In addition to owning one of the more creative band names of recent vintage, North Carolina's Goodfellers have a distinctive traditional-to-contemporary bluegrass sound combined with an openness to new ideas, and a great sense of humor. All three are on display

OK all you doubters... Thanksgiving is behind us, so it's time for the Christmas music bonanza! And boy do we have a good one to share with you today. Teddy Barnstable and Ralph McGee from Goodfellers have put together a bluegrass

These days, much of the discussion about bluegrass, nugrass, Americana, and grassicana seems to center on to what extent the influence of vintage trappings appear to impinge on contemporary credence. Consequently, most bands are labelled according to which side of

The Goodfellers, a hard-driving bluegrass band from Pinnacle, NC, make much of the gangster theme implied in their band name, though largely in a lighthearted fashion. It's a clever, down home play on the title of the 1990 film, Goodfellas,