If you’ve been paying any attention at all to the new bluegrass and string band scene your first impression on hearing Tellico may well be the thought that you’ve heard it before – three of the four band members are … Read More
When it comes to mixing genres you’re going to have to decide if this album is bluegrass with a country twang, or high and lonesome country. There is a fine line between good old-fashioned country music and traditional bluegrass, and … Read More
If you need more evidence that Boston is one of the cutting edges of the new string band sound, you only need to drop Cold Chocolate’s self-titled new album onto your choice of media player for confirmation. Billing themselves as … Read More
So, do you have a favorite bluegrass band from Australia yet? If you don’t even know that Australia has bluegrass/Americana bands, you owe it to yourself to check out The Mid North and see what you’re missing! The Mid-North has … Read More
It seems like you have two choices in forming a bluegrass band, the first is to not quit your day job, and the second is that if you do quit you’re going to need to get used to life on … Read More
Just As Strong may be Breaking Grass’ third album (following up their self-titled debut and Running With The Moon) but somehow they’ve managed to fly beneath my radar. If you’re also new to Breaking Grass, they shade to the newgrass … Read More
Three Tall Pines is a young Bluegrass/Americana quartet hailing from the Boston area. The band is Joe Lurgio on mandolin, Dan Bourdeau, Nick DiSebastian on upright bass, and Connor Smith on fiddle. They all come from deep musical backgrounds, and … Read More
Dave Adkins is one of the new and upcoming voices of bluegrass… one of those voices that stand out out from the crowd, once heard you won’t forget who you’re listening to. This is not the high-lonesome-sound, this is grit … Read More
While I enjoy most any bluegrass, if you were to browse my music collection you’d find it leaning heavily towards newgrass. But there are times when you walk up to the jukebox (do they even exist anymore?!) and you just … Read More
Dave Adkins (guitar and vocals), Kenny O’Quinn (mandolin), and Danny Ray Stiltner (bass) hail from Elkhorn City Kentucky, coal country. If you expect gritty bluegrass from a band with most of the members coming down through generations of coal miners … Read More