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Terry Herd was on hand for ROMP 2013 in Owensboro this weekend, and shared this gallery of images.
Compass Records has just released four digital albums of music recorded during the 2012 season of Music City Roots, a Nashville-based radio and television program airing each Wednesday evening from The Loveless Barn. Each of the four is titled based on loose stylistic groupings of the music featured on the show: GrassRoots, SongRoots, TwangRoots and SoulRoots. Of primary [...]
Oops... here's one of David Morris' Songwriter to Songwriter interviews we recorded last Fall at World of Bluegrass, that hadn't yet been posted. This one finds David in discussion with Jesse Langlais from Town Mountain. [jwplayer config="bgt" width="450" height="258" file="https://bgt.builtlikeclockwork.com/wp-content/uploads/v1/jlanglais.m4v" image="https://bgt.builtlikeclockwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/jesse_vid.jpg"]
As a Bluegrass Today correspondent, I get to listen to a lot of music during the year. Some on CDs, some live. Some traditional bluegrass, some most definitely not. Some of it terrific, some of it, well, not so much. But one of the most difficult parts of the job comes at the end of [...]
This episode of David Morris' Songwriter to Songwriter features David's discussion with Phil Barker of Town Mountain during World of Bluegrass in Nashville this past September. [jwplayer config="bgt" width="450" height="258" file="https://bgt.builtlikeclockwork.com/wp-content/uploads/v1/pbarker.m4v" image="insert path to splash screen here"]
During World of Bluegrass week in Nashville last month, David Morris caught up with Phil Barker and Jesse Langlais, two of the primary songwriters with Town Mountain, for an episode of his Songwriter to Songwriter series. They talked about various methods to write collaboratively, and how songs can transform in the band setting after they are [...]
I’m not sure what the definition of bluegrass would be in words alone, but if that definition was set to music, it would probably sound something like Town Mountain’s new Pinecastle Records release, Leave the Bottle. The dozen songs here are firmly rooted in the tradition of the Blue Grass Boys, Flatt and Scruggs and [...]
Tonight (8/22) finds two venues in Music City offering special bluegrass shows. One will be available to anyone with an internet connection, while the other will be limited to folks lucky enough to be in town. At 7:00 p.m. (CDT), Music City Roots will broadcast a special program celebrating the recent Putumayo collection, simply titled Bluegrass. [...]
Pinecastle Records has announced September 4 as the release date for Leave The Bottle, the first release on the label from Town Mountain. The Asheville, NC band consists of Robert Greer on guitar, Phil Barker on mandolin, Bobby Britt on fiddle, Jesse Langlais on banjo and Jon Stickley on bass. Greer is the primary lead vocalist, with all members joining [...]
Here's a photo essay from the second sweltering day at ROMP 2012.
