We have had the pleasure of featuring the NYC trio Ten Ton Man in the past. Their latest new track, “Crazy Theory,” definitely does not disappoint. The song gives a nod to the Southern blues, complete with blues harmonica, organ, and some down home, dirty […]
Earl Scruggs has long been lauded for the tone, taste, and timing of his banjo playing, and those same measures have been applied to bluegrass music as a whole. When bands exhibit strengths in developing and maintaining a tone, playing […]
When pedal steel guitar great Buddy Emmons died this week, we lost more than an exceptional musician from the country music landscape. Like the legendary artist who discovered him, Little Jimmy Dickens (when he died last year) the passing of Emmons is […]
The lights on stage came up, but only a little. The recorded music switched to a TexMex instrumental and, under dim light, the band walked onstage … except for keyboardist Jerry Dale McFadden, who danced on and continued to dance […]
Amy Black stands in a mostly empty apartment in Boston. She’s on clean-up duty while her husband, Ryan, drives a packed U-Haul with the couple’s Mini Cooper in tow to their new home in Nashville. After nearly three decades in […]
Bug Jennings runs through a list of phrases that have been used to describe his alt-country outfit, The Defibulators. “There was ‘Hee-Haw on mescaline,’ and ‘Carter Family-meets-Ramones,’” the singer-guitarist says by telephone from Brooklyn, N.Y. “Someone called it ‘trucker punk,’ […]
For the past month, Cassadee Pope has quietly been slipping her new single, “I Am Invincible,” into the set list of her live show. But when she took the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum stage July 25 to perform the self-empowerment […]
Ever been to a show and you are simply lost in what occurs in that two-to-three-hour span of time? You allow yourself to be overtaken by whatever happens. You trust yourself completly to the artists and the audience, and don’t […]
I was not unfamiliar with the name Ana Egge when, on the first of July, I received a communique from a friend of mine that new music from her was on its way. Four years ago I took notice of […]
While the crown jewel of Planet Bluegrass’s festivals is universally recognized to be the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, for those lucky 4000 people that attend RockyGrass, then know the real truth. This is the perfect festival. Since being ravaged by a […]
