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The Deadly Gentlemen, Boston's bad boy newgrass band, has announced that they are hanging it up. Original members had been peeling away this past year or so, and the remaining members have been working on outside projects. The Gentlemen were known as one of the first string bands to use the traditional bluegrass ensemble to perform [...]
Boston's Stash Wyslouch has announced plans to record his first solo album of original material, which he says will combine his twin passions for bluegrass and heavy metal music. Stash has been prominent in the bluegrass world this past few years as guitarist and vocalist with The Deadly Gentlemen, who have a well-earned reputation as bluegrass [...]
Modern American string music, in the folk rather than classical tradition, has a number of hot spots around the country. The lure of commercial work brings a good many talented young practitioners to Nashville, where they often band together or find employment with successful artists. Others gravitate to northeastern cities like Boston or New York, [...]
The Deadly Gentlemen can't wait for their next album to get new music in front of their fans. They've released a video for a new song, Thieving In The Evening, which banjo man and primary songwriter Greg Liszt says is a contemporary take on a traditional blues form. "This is a previously unrecorded song that I wrote [...]
When you hear of a web music series called The Gondola Sessions, does your mind go to old Venice with a striped shirted gondolier serenading his charges through the canals? If so, you'd be dead wrong. This show comes from Aspen, CO, and packs acoustic musicians into a mountain gondola, and records them coming down [...]
Here's a pair of fun videos from this week. The first is from Melody Williamson, who sings with her family group, Williamson Brach. It's a song she wrote called There's No Country Here, which while more country than bluegrass, expresses an emotion will find a lot of support among our readers. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="56548"] [...]
The Deadly Gentlemen have announced that Adam Chaffins has joined the band on bass, replacing founding member Sam Grisman who is relocating from the Boston area to Nashville. He will also be helping out with vocals in the band. Adam is a Kentucky native, and a 2010 graduate of Morehead State University where he received [...]
The Deadly Gentlemen shot a live video of All The Broken Pieces from their new CD, Roll Me, Tumble Me, for Second Story Garage while they were in Boulder, CO last week. Check it out.
The Deadly Gentlemen’s third release Roll Me, Tumble Me is out this summer from Rounder Records. The Boston-based group has a rootsy, folk influenced acoustic sound using traditional bluegrass instrumentation, but the music is harder to describe. More progressive than traditional... hipster bluegrass or old-timey yet new-grassy... or just good acoustic music. In addition to writing the [...]
Rounder has released a debut music video from their new album for The Deadly Gentlemen, Roll Me Tumble Me. The song is Bored Of The Raging, a band original. It's a perfect example of their unique hybrid sound, using the instruments and techniques of the bluegrass band to perform original music with a modern pop [...]
