Three Americana Bands To Be Thankful For Sometimes people get a tad overzealous at holiday time. But with Thanksgiving, I’m not sure you really can have too much of a good thing. I mean, maybe too much of that jellied cranberry stuff. I …
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Album Review: The Washover Fans – Just Like Time – The Gorgeous Americana album we’ve been waiting for
Album Review: The Washover Fans – Just Like Time – The Gorgeous Americana album we’ve been waiting for One of the characteristics of Americana is that it must be a hybrid of other styles, often in strands of roots music. That comes through …
Album Review: The Orchardist – Dirt on Your Hands
Some artists have this incredible ability to sing every lyric as if it has eternal significance and the Orchardist is one of those bands. If you want some indication of the caliber of humans involved in this endeavor, check out their purpose from …
Nickel Creek – 21st of May
So, in case you’ve been under a rock and missed that Nickel Creek got back together for a new album (or you’ve been dead and not heard of them in the first place), here you go. The album, which is one of their …
David Benedict – Into the True Country – Rich, endearing mandolin bluegrass album
There are probably really technical terms to define the kind of music that David Benedict makes, but to the lay music fan (and even some of us critical types), I can think of a few good words – relaxing, endearing, and rich. By …
The Barefoot Movement – Figures of the Year
Bluegrass is a genre that often get overlooked because it can be grating. The fiddles, the banjos, the vocals can all be turn offs to the casual music listener. One of the reasons that Nickel Creek was so successful was their ability to …
Fiction Family – Reunion
Often times, collaborations turn out to be much hype and excitement but very little execution. But sometimes, as if by magic, different artists come together after making wildly different music and produce something unique and incredible. Fiction Family is the moniker adopted by …
Rye and Fairy Tales – Rye and Fairy Tales
Rye and Fairy Tales is a bluegrass duo comprised of Jared Albright and Ben Plotnick. They are two extremely talented young men that have a bluegrass style that connects traditional and new grass in wonderful ways. Their vocals, string performance, and overall musical …
EP Roundup: Fiction Family, Robinson
First things first: all of these EPs are free on Noisetrade right now (see embedded downloaders below). Fiction Family is the brainchild and musical outlet of Jon Foreman, the frontman from Switchfoot, and Sean Watkins, former guitarist and vocalist of Nickel Creek. It’s …
Youtube Gems: Crooked Still
We wrote last year about The Deadly Gentlemen, an awesome bluegrass band that kinda sounds like what I imagine would happen if STOMP made bluegrass music. There’s lots of yelling and laughing and it just generally makes you happy and want to clap …
