Tag Archives: Bluegrass music

Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves’ Hurricane Clarice

Posted on 9th March 2022 by Gary Whitehouse

The coronavirus pandemic of the early ’20s has played a huge role in all kinds of arts and entertainment, which I’m sure scholars will be studying for decades to come. One thing I’ve noticed is that every musician or musical … Continue reading →

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Justin Moses’ Fall Like Rain

Posted on 20th January 2021 by Gary Whitehouse

Highly respected bluegrass picker Justin Moses steps into the limelight with his first full-length project under his own name, and Fall Like Rain is an auspicious debut. Moses is a prodigious talent in many, many ways: he can play seemingly … Continue reading →

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Gary’s favorite roots and Americana music of 2020

Posted on 24th December 2020 by Gary Whitehouse

This was an amazing year for creativity of all sorts, not least in roots music. This list could easily be twice as long, especially as everybody else’s year-end lists come out and I learn about releases that I haven’t heard … Continue reading →

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Various artists’ The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Volume 1

Posted on 12th June 2020 by Gary Whitehouse

As we approach the 20th anniversary of the passing of John Hartford, his family and friends and many of the musicians he influenced are working to ensure we don’t forget him. Hartford is best known by the public as the … Continue reading →

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Jake Blount’s Spider Tales

Posted on 20th May 2020 by Gary Whitehouse

Jake Blount‘s Spider Tales exists on a couple of different planes simultaneously. On one level, the level of the music itself, it’s as simple and straightforward as all the best stringband music. A few simple instruments, old songs, played and … Continue reading →

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Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton’s Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton

Posted on 19th May 2020 by Gary Whitehouse

“Sui generis” is one of those terms that gets tossed around when discussing certain musicians. The Latin term means something like “of its own kind,” a fancy way of saying “unique.” But if it applies to anyone in American music … Continue reading →

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Che Apalache’s Rearrange My Heart

Posted on 4th June 2019 by Gary Whitehouse

Bluegrass fiddler and singer Joe Troop has come of age at just the ripe moment. Growing up a queer young man in the North Carolina Piedmont, in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, Troop eventually felt unwelcome in his home … Continue reading →

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Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard’s Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969

Posted on 10th October 2018 by Gary Whitehouse

The first time I listened to this CD with headphones, I nearly fell out of my chair when the second track, “Tell Me That You Love Me” began. I don’t believe I’d ever heard this old song before, although perhaps … Continue reading →

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Various artists’ Epilogue: A Tribute to John Duffey

Posted on 12th June 2018 by Gary Whitehouse

You can always trust Smithsonian Folkways to do up a package of music the right way. That definitely applies to this standout tribute to one of the fathers of contemporary bluegrass, John Duffey. Duffey was a founding member of both … Continue reading →

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John Lawless’ Five & Dime

Posted on 23rd October 2017 by Gary Whitehouse

I was shocked when, after listening to Five & Dime a couple of times, I discovered that it’s banjo player John Lawless’ first recording. It’s that good. Lawless, an editor at Bluegrass Today, has been playing regionally out of Roanoak, … Continue reading →

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