The pride of Duluth, Minnesota – Trampled by Turtles – brought their frenetic brand of bluegrass to CBS’ “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” Wednesday night. The band tore through the song “Walt Whitman”…
San Luis Obispo. CA.’s home-grown honky-tonkers Red Eye Junction gets some local ink (pixels?) on a release party (Saturday, Jan. 03, 2009 – Downtown Brewing Co.) for their current work “In the Shadows” and their…
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Witchita, Kansas based Bloodshot Records recording artists Split Lip Rayfield are gearing up for the group’s fifth studio album “I’ll Be Around” is its first collection of new material since 2004’s “Should Have Seen It…
Why does a Chicago based, blues/bluegrass/punk, Bloodshot Records band Devil in a Woodpile cover classic Zeppelin? Because they’re damn good at it! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcfOMmVod10[/youtube]
To celebrate the August 19th release of “Gravity’s Our Enemy” Cadillac Sky and Skaggs Family Records will be holding two, count ’em, two release parties. The first takes place in Nashville, Tennessee where those C-Sky’s…
Popmatters.com has a review of the DVD “Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music” which they discribe as “Informative and educational, intriguing and entertaining, part American history lesson, part biography and part concert film…” The good…
When It comes to music I am not purist, and unless your advocating musical purity you better be talking about music created by banging on logs in a forest or your idea of musical purity…
The New York Times has a nice piece on something I’ve seen first hand. the rising popularity of Roots Music here in New York. The city that gave you the smoky Greenwich Village folk clubs…
Bluegrass supergroup “Cadillac Sky” has some great performances over at CMT Unplugged at Studio 330. Go watch ’em over there and then go see them on the road as they come to a town near…