Artists
When Andrew McConathy (YarmonyGrass) picked up his first guitar at the age of 10 years old, he had no way of knowing the road would lead him to become a singer-songwriter, music manager and successful festival producer. McConathy’s music brings an… (Read More)
“Original”, “innovative”, “fearless”, “ambitious”, “propulsive”, “a marvel of emotion and razor sharp focus”….these are the words of those that have had a chance to hear the sound that for the past several years has been reverberating out of Texas from one… (Read More)
David Grisman Bluegrass Experience
For the past few years, one of the best-kept secrets of the Bay Area music scene was a David Grisman Bluegrass Experience show. With lines stretching for blocks, it would be standing room only to hear this amazing band. Now… (Read More)
Vince Gill says it simply, and maybe best: “I’d rather hear Del McCoury sing Are You Teasing Me’ than just about anything.” For fifty years, Del’s music has defined authenticity for hard core bluegrass fans-count Gill among them-as well as a… (Read More)
“All aboard!” You’ll hear Vince Herman shout this out at a Great American Taxi show and after you know a little bit more about this band you’ll know why. Herman (of Leftover Salmon infamy) and Chad Staehly (keyboards, vocals) have been… (Read More)
“Head for the Hills has created a sound that is all at once organic, precise, timeless, and brand-new,” as reported by the Missoula Independent. The acclaimed Colorado quartet has been receiving nation-wide recognition in response to their refreshing take on acoustic… (Read More)
Hot Buttered Rum, one of the hardest-working and fastest-rising stars in the musical firmament, has become, over the last five years, a group that is infinitely greater than the sum of its parts. It began with a core of five uniquely… (Read More)
Jeff Austin is a member of Yonder Mountain String Band. Be sure to check out www.yondermountain.com and sign up for the mailing list so you can keep up with all the band news and updates. Jeff was born in Arlington Heights… (Read More)
The Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where Are Thou, and the subsequent “Down from the Mountain” music tours it spawned, performed a number of great services to fans of American music. One of the best of those services was in bringing forward… (Read More)
Photo by Nela Koenig It is not true that John Fogerty wrote every hit song on the radio between 1968 and 1970 – it merely seems that way. Fusing elements of basic ‘50s roots rock and what was called the swamp… (Read More)
The Johnson Family Band is a collection of musicians from the Fargo Moorhead area that came together from a variety of musical backgrounds to celebrate a common love of folk music. We met in bars and classes we took together in… (Read More)
With the 2009 release of their debut album “Rollin”, Missed the Boat has been stunning listeners at live shows and over the airwaves throughout the country with their unique Americana-Rock sound. Featuring acoustic guitar, mandolin, electric mandolin, tenor banjo, harmonica, electric… (Read More)
Hailing from majestic Nederland, Colorado, Mountain Standard Time brings “home” wherever they go. A pure mountain folk freak show with Colorado kind jams comprised of the finest Slamgrazz Funk – dirty minor funk mashed head on with rocking grassy originals. Following… (Read More)
Though he admits a certain discomfort with the moniker “King of Newgrass,” Sam Bush has more than earned it. As cofounder and leader of the seminal progressive bluegrass band New Grass Revival through 18 years during the 1970s and ’80s, Bush… (Read More)
The Kansas-based post-punk progressive bluegrass outfit Split Lip Rayfield was comprised of vocalist/banjoist David Lawrence, guitarist/dobroist Kirk Rundstrom, and one-string bassist Jeff Eaton, whose instrument was fashioned from the gas tank of a 1965 Ford. An outgrowth of the group Scroat… (Read More)
“Lord you know I’ve been so many places/At least I know I have a longer view”, sings Leftover Salmon lead singer and mandolin player Drew Emmitt over a rollicking mandolin lick on the title track of his third solo effort, Long… (Read More)
Simone, Ian and James Felice are the three eldest boys from a family of seven, born carpenter’s sons in the wilds of New York’s Catskill … (more) Mountains. Less than a year ago, the Brothers adopted a runaway dice-thrower and chancer… (Read More)
The Grant Farm is an exciting new collaboration of two of the hottest acoustic musicians on the scene today. Tyler Grant (guitar) and Andy Thorn (banjo, guitar) have been bandmates in the Emmitt-Nershi Band for the past two years. When not… (Read More)
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND actually isn’t that big. It’s kinda like your husky pal everyone calls “Tiny.” The young, modest three-piece from Indianapolis makes up for its size deficiency with a high-energy sound steeped in classic Blues tradition. With… (Read More)
McCoury on mandolin, Rob McCoury on banjo, Jason Carter on fiddle, Alan Bartram on bass and featured guests on guitar and vocals is the latest incarnation of the most awarded band in the history of bluegrass -The Del McCoury Band. Known… (Read More)
If you play in a band in Duluth, MN, you’re bound to start another band with people from other bands in Duluth. In early 2003 Guitar player and songwriter Dave Simonett and mandolin player Erik Berry followed this simple and inescapable… (Read More)
Turbine has been building a following the past few years around their dynamic live performances and constant touring schedule. Exploring various styles of music from rock to bluegrass to sci-fi, they use their vast catalog of songs as launching pads for… (Read More)
In the 1980s and early ‘90s, when synthesizers, flash and dance moves seemed the whole of American popular music, it seemed as though respect for traditional roots/folk/string music was about over. Not so. As the ‘90s passed, the phrase “jamgrass” emerged… (Read More)
