by Bobby Costa I had the pleasure of meeting Marty Stuart and his band at the Strawberry Park Bluegrass Festival in Preston CT in June of this year. He and his band’s personalities are as great as their music. This … Read More
To me, it’s hardly surprising that a Senator from West Virginia would release a fiddle album; politicians will do most anything to get noticed. Rather, what’s surprising to me after several hour in my CD player is that this is … Read More
Earlier this summer, on a beautiful evening at the Wind Gap Bluegrass Festival, Jesse McReynolds and his band did a stunning cover of the Grateful Dead’s “Black Muddy River,” and announced the CD would be out in October. I vowed … Read More
Bluegrass music has come a long way since Bill Monroe and his brothers decided to form a band. Today we’re presented with an abundance of artists who cite Bluegrass and its pioneers as influences without necessarily having much in common … Read More
by C.B. Smith A scion of an upstate New York musical family with a deep love for bluegrass, banjo phenom Jonah Bruno just released a strong collection of original songs called Spokesman. The title stumped me until I did a … Read More
Joe Diffie is remembered as a country artist with hits such as “Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox,” “John Deere Green,” “Honky Tonk Attitude” and his first hit in 1990, the Americana song, “Home.” Joe Diffie’s twelve #1’s, twenty top … Read More
About 50 bluegrass music lovers crowded into the Sugar & Spice dining room to see Junior Sisk and Rambler’s Choice perform two sets of high powered songs. Songs from the recently released Heartaches and Dreams CD dominated the sets. They … Read More
The new CD by C.B. Smith, Flesh and Bone is excellent. All the songs on the album are C.B.’s compositions. C.B. has something to say about life’s ups and downs and he expertly creates the rhythm, melody, and words to … Read More
by Kalia Yeagle There is a uniquely beautiful energy to all that Crooked Still does, and that holds true for their fourth and latest album Some Strange Country. The band is fueled by singer Aoife O’Donovan, bassist Corey DiMario, banjo … Read More
by Jack Dwyer If you know the music of Paul Williams, you will know exactly what to expect from any Rebel release featuring Paul Williams and The Victory Trio. Indeed, Just A Little Closer Home delivers much more than just … Read More