Tangled up in Blue is a bluegrass ensemble based at Yale University. Twenty or so students and others put “The Ramblin’ Kind” a full length album, together last year and it is wonderful. This group has existed since 1986, obviously cycling through new …
Category: Bluegrass
Free Music Friday: Bearheart
Happy Free Music Friday friends! This week, again thanks to our friends at Noisetrade, we’re happy to bring some awesome new Americana music courtesy of Bearheart, a six piece band out of Nashville. These guys run the gamut of Americana stylings from bluegrass …
Casey Karger’s Best of 2014
It’s that time of year again! Without further ado, here are staff writer Casey Karger’s best songs and albums of 2014. Top 10 Songs of 2014 #10: Mustered Courage – “Standing By Your Side” While it’s rare for us to find really solid, …
The Misty Mountain String Band
Stop what you are doing now and go listen to The Misty Mountain String Band’s new “Brownsboro” album. This is not only a perfect band, but a perfectly curated album. Some bands are made of people who decide to play instruments and it …
The Pine Hill Haints–Alabama Ghost Music
Halloween is coming. Are there any Millennials out there? Millennials love Halloween. Maybe you’re looking for the perfect, soundtrack for your Halloween party (no “Monster Mash”, please). Here it is. It is also the perfect soundtrack for the month of October or any …
The Lonesome Fellas–should not be so lonesome.
The Lonesome Fellas are a bluegrass-y folk band from South Carolina. They released a demo EP in May and it is really good. The tunes are jaunty enough for a backyard picnic with friends, watermelon, and barbeque, and the lyrics are deep enough …
Cahalen Morrison and Eli West – I’ll Swing My Hammer With Both of My Hands – Keeping traditional country music thriving
Every once in a while I run across an album that I find so endearing, so engaging, and so exciting that I struggle to find words for it. I kept this album in my car for my commute for literally weeks, thinking to …
Benjamin James Caldwell–timeless, nostalgic, beautiful.
If we were all on the Oregon Trail together, Benjamin James Caldwell would be the young gentleman still singing softly around the campfire when everyone else has all gone to bed. Somehow he would still be up at the crack of dawn with …
Mustered Courage – Powerlines – Bluegrass from Down Under
Mustered Courage, a quartet from Canberra, Australia (with a member from Texas), making awesome bluegrass music. These guys are taking Australia by storm and recently released their newest album, Powerlines, in the US. These guys are making Americana better than most Americans and they’re …
Lulu Mae–organic folk that rocks and rolls
I just returned from Idaho and have been in a kind of funk all week after leaving the land of glitter and wildness and returning to flat, industrial Cleveland. I haven’t listened to any music because nothing seemed to fit my funk. Today …
