Sam Bush has a great rant about “Bluegrass Unlimited,” and on first listen this album certainly fits into “Unlimited”! Alt-Bluegrass? Country? Folk? Rock? Yup, there’re drums. But the instruments are acoustic. The fiddle is sweet. The vocals carry more than … Read More
Raining In Baltimore is Kim Robin’s sophomore album, coming four years and many miles of touring after 40 Years Late debuted in 2013. While Raining In Baltimore is being billed as a bluegrass album it could just as easily be … Read More
It was a fortunate flock of bluegrass fans who filled the Unitarian Fellowship to hear the fabulous Feinberg Brothers on Friday evening. The young brothers, Patrick and Rourke, only recently in their twenties, front a quintet that looks and sounds … Read More
Billy Parker is a powerful mandolinist from Phoenix, AZ. Mandoclectic is Billy Parker’s imaginative and thoughtful collection of songs and tunes that demonstrate both his personal vision and his respect for different musical influences. Fundamentally, this recording is a joy … Read More
Pleased to welcome this ambitious CD of mostly original tunes written and performed by longtime HVBA member Eric Marshall. The CD’s ten songs touch many of the familiar patches of the American song quilt, beginning with a deep country tune … Read More
When people who are really into wine talk about wine they don’t tend to speak in generalities, but rather a whole range of specifics. They talk about the hints of this and that, the various notes of such and such. … Read More
If you think a band carrying the name Wilson Banjo & Co would be a hard driving, banjo based bluegrass band you’d be on the right track. Steve honed his bluegrass and luthier skills while with Gibson in Nashville, and … Read More
Let me say right up front that Marc Rennard is my kind of fiddler. Marc’s fiddling is a proper extension of himself: powerful, engaging and steeped in the tradition. Earthenware is a welcome and long overdue introduction to Marc’s fiddling, … Read More
To be right up front this is not a bluegrass review, but I’m a firm believer that good music is good music, and great music is better! Those of us old enough, or retro enough, to journey into bluegrass accompanied … Read More
The band I Draw Slow hails from Ireland, and is fronted by brother and sister Dave (guitar+vocals) and Louise Holden (vocals), backed on fiddle by Adrian Hart, clawhammer banjo by Colin Derham, and bassist Konrad Liddy, with the Holdens picking … Read More