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
“In most cases, much forethought, planning, and sometimes recruiting, goes into forming a musical unit. But not in this case. This group of musicians gathered in a studio as session players on a solo effort, and something special transpired. After … Read More
God Didn’t Choose Sides Vol 1 is the first of a new series that touches on bluegrass, country, and roots music by writers such as Paula Breedlove, Mark Brinkman, Brad Davis, Ray Edwards, Mike Evans, Terry Foust, Steve Gulley and … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
An apple review from the Big Horse Creek Farm website: “A long-time Southern favorite, Carolina Red June is believed to have originated in the early 1800’s in Tennessee. This apple has long been highly valued for its early ripening qualities. … Read More
So the first guess on seeing the name of the band is “Where Is The Mid North?”; Pennsylvania? Connecticut? New Jersey? New York? It throws your geography for a loop, not to mention your ideas of the borders of bluegrass … Read More
After listening to Daybreak numerous times to absorb the feel of it, I found such a large Alison Krauss influence that I expected to find her listed as the producer (she’s not, the album was co-produced by Barry Bales and Sierra … Read More
If Cumberland River doesn’t sound like your high lonesome bluegrass, maybe it’s because they hail from the coal country of Harlan County Kentucky. This is dirty knuckles, grease, and coal dust bluegrass. The instrumentation is strong and the lead vocals … Read More