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One of the strongest projects I've yet heard this year is Darren Nicholson's Things Left Undone. The Balsam Range mandolinist really stretches out and explores his wide range of talents on this record, with a great lineup of sidemen and a strong selection of songs. CDs are available for mail order from Darren's web site, but [...]
Here is another DelFest 2014 gallery from Todd Powers, covering Sunday's action on the ground.
Kevin Richardson and Cuttin’ Edge - KRACE to their close friends and associates - is preparing the release of their second album, Son of a Simple Man. Their debut, self-titled project in 2012 created a sensation on our Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart, with two tracks making it to the #1 spot. The band is centered [...]
A while back, I wrote a two-part series on bluegrass dream analysis. Since that time, for whatever reason, I’ve had almost no bluegrass-related dreams. Perhaps I had gotten them out of my system. In the last year, most of my dreams have been in the absurd and/or nonsensical category, like the one I had last [...]
From the very beginning playing bluegrass music has been a very precarious job, even for the very, very talented. Bill Monroe worked at Sinclair Oil in the 1930s; Kenny Baker often went back to the coal mines even though he was a mainstay in Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys; George Shuffler was more often otherwise [...]
