Bluegrass

Bluegrass Indie Rock 

LISTEN: Splendid Torch Shares ‘Pouring’

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments Big Thief, ICON, Josh Ballard, Lily Sexton, Mamma’s Marmalade, Pouring, Sean Davis, Splendid Torch, The Punch Brothers

Debut LP from New England trio, ICON, out May 2nd

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Bluegrass Pop 

LISTEN: Eleanor Underhill Shares Poppy New Single 

July 27, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments And She Said, banjo, Bluegrass, Eleanor Underhill, North Carolina, pop music

“And She Said” finds singer-songwriter moving beyond bluegrass

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Bluegrass Country and/or Western 

Willie Nelson To Release Second LP This Year

June 22, 2023June 22, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2023, Bluegrass, Buddy Cannon, Dan Tyminski, Legacy Recordings, Mickey Raphael, Outlaw Festival, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Willie Nelson

Bluegrass comes out on September 15 via Legacy Recordings 

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Bluegrass Hip Hop Rap 

WATCH: Gangstagrass and Kosha Dillz Wish You A “Happy Chinooka”

December 16, 2022December 16, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments antisemitism, Brooklyn, Chanukah, Gangstagrass, Hanukkah, Happy Chinooka, Hip-hop, Kosha Dillz, Rap music, Rench

Bluegrass and hip-hop come together to fight antisemítism this holiday season

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Bluegrass Folk North Americana Rock 

ALBUMS: Trampled by Turtles Basks in the Alpenglow

October 26, 2022October 27, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments album, Alpenglow, Americana Dreams, Bluegrass, Duluth, Jeff Tweedy, Minnesota, Trampled By Turtles

With their Jeff Tweedy-produced new album, the acclaimed bluegrass outfit find themselves on a fast track forward

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Bluegrass 

Trampled by Turtles Continue Career Climb at Red Rocks

July 19, 2022July 19, 2022 Michael Bialas 0 Comments Colorado, Dave Carroll, Dave Simonett, Eamonn McLain, Erik Berry, Kacey Musgraves, Morrison, Red Rocks, Red Rocks Amphitheater, Ruston Kelly, Ryan Young, Tim Saxhaug, Trampled By Turtles

Formed in 2003 after coming up with a name “that we didn’t hate,” this genre-busting Minnesota band takes its need for speed on the road again

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Bluegrass 

Del McCoury: Alive and Picking

May 8, 2022May 8, 2022 j. poet 0 Comments 2022, Almost Proud, Bill Monroe, Bluegrass, Del McCoury, guitar, The Del McCoury Band

One of the Founding Fathers of Bluegrass is still going strong at 83

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Bluegrass 

The Infamous Stringdusters and the Politics of Bluegrass

February 19, 2022February 20, 2022 j. poet 0 Comments 2022, Americana Vibes, Andy Falco, Andy Hall, Bluegrass, Chris Pandolfi, Jeremy Garrett, The Infamous Stringdusters, Toward The Fray, Toward The Fray-basin, Travis Book

The beloved jamgrass ensemble emerge from the pandemic with their hearts full of song despite the apocalyptic album cover

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Bluegrass Country and/or Western Pop Remembrance Rock 

Remembering Nez: Now It’s Time To Listen To The Band

December 16, 2021April 3, 2022 James Porter 4 Comments Davy Jones, Generation X, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, MTV, Peter Tork, RCA, RIP, The Monkees

Why losing Michael Nesmith means so much more than the death of the “Quiet Monkee”

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Bluegrass Blues Country and/or Western Dead Folk Psychedelics Remembrance Rock Rockabilly 

Commander Cody, a True Original, Breaks the Bonds of Earth

September 30, 2021September 30, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Commander Cody, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, George Frayne IV, San Francisco, The Grateful Dead

The San Francisco mainstay and trucker rock icon who defied categorization was 77 years old

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Bluegrass 

The Assimilated Triumph of Mark Rubin

June 22, 2021March 24, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 6 Comments antisemitism, Austin, Bad Livers, Bluegrass, Killbilly, Klezmer, Mark Rubin, Oklahoma, Texas, The Jew of Oklahoma, The Triumph of Assimilation

The self-described “Jew of Oklahoma” and eternal Bad Liver confronts Antisemitism on his excellent new solo album

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Bluegrass 

Remembering Tony Rice

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Bluegrass, David Grisman, J.D. Crowe and the New South, Larry Rice, Norman Blake, RIP, Ron Rice, Tony Rice, Wyatt Rice

Farewell to a true innovator, an individual who helped expand bluegrass’ boundaries

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Bluegrass Hip Hop 

WATCH: Gangstagrass “Ride With You”

November 4, 2020November 5, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020 Election, Affirmative, Bluegrass, Brooklyn, Gangstagrass, Hip-hop, Ride With You

Fresh off a white hot election special on their Twitch channel, the only hip-hop bluegrass group that matters drops a hope bomb with one of the year’s best singles

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Bluegrass North Americana 

The Dillards: Bluegrass for Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday

September 15, 2020September 16, 2020 j. poet 0 Comments Bernie Leadon, Bluegrass, Cheryl White, Don Henley, Doug Dillard, Gary Smith, George Giddens, Herb Pedersen, Old Road New Again, Ricky Skaggs, Rodney Dillard, Sharon White, The Dillards, The Eagles, Tony Wray, Wheatstraw Suite. Andy Griffith

An exclusive chat with Rodney Dillard about maintaining an American legacy

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Bluegrass Classical Folk 

ALBUMS: A Well-Synched Supergroup

July 21, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2020, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, Not Our First Goat Rodeo, Sony Masterworks, Stuart Duncan, The Goat Rodeo Sessions, Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile offer hope that Not Our First Goat Rodeo suggests there’s more to come

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