Two Dollar Goat: Sawed Off and Short

Two Dollar Goat is a Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association Member Band who bring their energetic bluegrass and acoustic music to the Hudson Valley.

If you didn't catch them at the Arlington Street Fair maybe you came across one of their shows at Keegan's (never turn down good beer and good bluegrass!) or another local venue.

Audie Blaylock & Redline: Hard Country

One reviewer noted of Audie Blaylock that he “puts music before image.” If you’ve seen the cover of his latest album, Hard Country, you’ll see some of the truth of that statement: this is one of the best albums of 2012, and it has one of the worst album covers. If you didn’t know anything about Blaylock, you’d look at this one and think that it’s one of those compilation CDs that they sell at truck stop check outs. The title doesn’t help.

The Hillbenders: Can You Hear Me?

The Hillbenders have been a rising young force in the bluegrass/newgrass scene, taking the titles at the 2009 Telluride Bluegrass Band competition and the 2010 National Single Microphone Championship. They've been hitting the bluegrass festival scene and livening up events across the country, including locally at Greyfox. Their debut album Down To My Last Dollar was released in 2010.

Dale Ann Bradley: Somewhere South of Crazy

If you want to give yourself a good break, here’s an idea: go for a drive on a crisp winter day listening to Dale Ann Bradley’s Somewhere South of Crazy. I did that today, and it was brilliant. There’s a thematic tie in—the title song which opens the album find the narrator pining after a trip “south of crazy, ” a place more resembling the beach on her computer screen saver than the world outside her window—but it’s more than that. Having Bradley with you in the car is like