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Band Doesn’t String You Along, Offers Pure ‘Original Hillbilly’
History may never know exactly how the 23 String Band got its name, because the five-man group from Cumberland Valley, Kentucky plays more strings than that with any onstage musical configuration they use. The answer may be as simple as a member once told a reporter interviewi
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Headlights on Bright for Denver’s ‘Rollicking, Relentless’ Halden Wofford
The veteran Denver band known as Halden Wofford and the Hi*Beams have been described as “rollicking, relentless, rocked-up, rootsy and real, and neither revivalist nor retro.” And that's just the segment of their praise brought to you by the letter “R.”
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Musical High Tide for San Francisco Country/Folk-Rock/Bluegrass Jam Band
When a band's homepage welcomes visitors with an animated video of their original number “Talking Sasquatch Blues” (“I was out walkin' in the woods one day / And here come Bigfoot puffin' a J
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Someone’s in the Kitchen with Solivan, Cooking Fresh (and Vintage) Bluegrass
Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen will make their way to Beartrap from the storied hills of West Virginia—that is, with stops along the way for the Yukon's Kluane Mountain Music Festival, Kentucky's legendary Bean Blossom gathering, and two weeks of feverish picking in a Nashville recording studio.
Ordained “the best new Bluegrass ban
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Town Mountain’s Challenge: Creating New Music with ‘Old-School Grittiness’
The town is Asheville, NC, and the mountains are so multiple they go by the name “Great Smokies.” But they've provided a smoking springboard that has taken the new Bluegrass group from the Southeast U.S. to Southeast Finland.
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Colorado Duo Produces a Taste of Americana Honey (Don’t)
Just do the math: divide two into a Bluegrass quartet known as Sweet Sunny South, carry the acoustic flat-top, standup bass, and plectrum banjo, and you get a Paonia, Colorado, husband/wife duo composed of Shelley Gray and Bill Powers—also known as Honey Don't.
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Hometown ‘Screen Door’ Draws Fans from Jackson, Holland, Beyond – Screen Door Porch to Play Beartrap
The schedule of Americana duo/quartet Screen Door Porch has taken them to both coasts and points between, and many of their songs are radio favorites in Italy, Germany, and The Netherlands.
But when a band's most recent gigs ar
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The Infamous Stringdusters – Large Order of Strings, Dusted With Jam
If Nickel Creek and Phish had a baby, the result might sound something like The Infamous Stringdusters.
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Red June’s Tunes Range From Vintage to Original
When your band is named after an heirloom variety of apple, it's only a matter of time until some music critic plays the “cider” card. But with the distinctive sound of North Carolina's Red June, the metaphor is especially apt: “Beautifully distilled original Americana,” as one review puts it. “A dynamic yet refined sound that features striking three-part harmonies, tasteful instrumental work, and honest, soulful songwriting.”
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Boulder Acoustic Society: Klezmer, Americana, Punk, or All and More?
When you hear that the Boulder Acoustic Society is coming to this year's Beartrap Summer Festival, you might assume that they'll be playing classical music. Which is true, if your idea of classical includes vintage cloth