Sometimes you just can’t beat the artist’s own website for an introduction! 🙂 “Hailing from opposite ends of the Appalachian mountains, Zoe & Cloyd is renowned fiddler and vocalist Natalya Zoe Weinstein and award-winning songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist John Cloyd … Read More
Chris Jones and the Night Drivers new album “Make Each Second Last” is undoubtedly a pandemic project, but many of the songs are “full of hope,” as the very first line on the first cut, “We Needed This Ride” suggests. … Read More
Dream Rich, Dirt Poor is Aaron’s 8th album. Which begs the question of why I haven’t heard of this great talent before? Aaron is an award winning singer-songwriter from western North Carolina, with influences ranging from Bob Dylan to the … Read More
Bluegrass music is an interesting spot in 2021. Perhaps for the first time since the 1990s, there are more well established “known entities” in the genre than ever. The number of highly technically proficient bands that emerged in the late … Read More
Late on a Saturday afternoon in August my mobile phone flashed a notification that I had received a message from Michael Sassano. “Hmm.. this should be good” I thought as I opened the note to find he had sent a … Read More
Dale Ann Bradley, the accomplished bluegrass singer from The Bluegrass State, released earlier this year her first LP since saying sayonara to Sister Sadie, the popular all female vocal group. “We’ve been together for between seven and eight years and … Read More
Bluegrass veteran Jeremy Garrett, best known as the fiddler for The Infamous Stringdusters released this month (August) a solo album with 10 songs that are about as diverse as Brooklyn, N.Y. and as satisfying as a Snickers bar. Bluegrass fans … Read More
I recently found myself in the parlor of a grand old Hudson Valley Victorian and was handed a copy of Desert Heart, Mountain Soul, a new duo album from longtime collaborators Chris Brashear and Peter McLaughlin. The two share 2003’s … Read More
Mandolinist John Reischman’s latest solo project, New Time and Old Acoustic, is a stunning collection of inspired acoustic music—twelve original compositions and two traditional tunes, all beautifully arranged and tastefully performed with help from an array of talented musicians. Reischman … Read More
Jesse Brock has put out a new album, Streamliner, co-produced with Dave Maggard. It pulls together a band and a set of songs and song writers that are worthy of many listens. Brock has been IBMA mandolin player of the … Read More