Tim O’Brien Band Review Connect with Tim O’Brien Band: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram After many years navigating the outskirts of bluegrass and acoustic music, Tim O’Brien’s is back with two feed firmly planted in the bluegrass traditions. Born in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1954, Grammy winning singer songwriter and multi instrumentalist Tim O’Brien grew … Read more
Cascade Crescendo, Chasing the Sun Review Connect with Cascade Crescendo: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Cascade Crescendo is a high-energy bluegrass, jamgrass and Americana band hailing from Portland, Oregon. The band is comprised of: Hunter White (guitar, vocals), Taylor Skiles (upright bass) and Aden Beck (mandolin, vocals). Duluth, and Harrison Olk (banjo, vocals). Cascade Cresendo’s … Read more
Town Mountain, Freedom Blues Review Town Mountain is a bluegrass band that has a country overtone all wrapped up and served with a fresh moving, genre rooted manner. The music has plenty of swagger to keep your interest and enough influence to keep you wondering what’s next. The bands songwriting, singing and playing can take … Read more
The Highland Travelers have released their first full length CD on Mountain Fever Records, The Highland Travelers. At the helm is Adam Steffey (mandolin and vocals) and if you follow bluegrass, you know that last year we had more than a couple bands either stop touring or dissolve. The Highland Travelers are the best of … Read more
The Special Consensus are back with their nineteenth band recording titled, Rivers And Roads released on Compass Records. The band released their first album back in 1979 and have been going strong ever since. The band members include: leader/banjo player Greg Cahill (the former President/Board Chair of the Nashville-based International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), the … Read more
The distinctive Nefesh Mountain is releasing their anticipated second full-length record Beneath The Open Sky. The album was recorded in Nashville and features: Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Tony Trischka, and David Grier, as well, the New York City band Alan Grubner and Tim Kiah. Nefesh Mountain is bringing diversity back into bluegrass in a big … Read more
The band Dead Horses has a past that has shaped their music, but perhaps it is because of their past that the songs ring with such sincerity and touch all those heartfelt emotions in us as listeners. That would explain their awards for “Best Album,” “Best Americana/Bluegrass Artist,” and “Best Female Vocalist” at the 2017 … Read more
The Railsplitters are pushing the boundaries of bluegrass and old-time music in every sense. Hailing from the Rocky Mountain front-range in Boulder, CO, the Railsplitters are: mandolinist Peter Sharpe and his fiancée, vocalist and guitarist Lauren Stovall, double bassist Jean-Luc Davis, fiddler Joe D’Esposito, and banjoist and vocalist Dusty Rider. The Railsplitters have won multiple … Read more
After Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn’s wildly successful self-titled debut album, the duet is back with a fresh set of songs, amazing banjo playing and singing called, Echo in the Valley. The two approach the banjo from different angles, one uses the three-finger right hand method and the other a clawhammer right hand style. They … Read more
Monocle Band has released their next sonic destination – The Clearing. The album contains ten original tracks from founders Monica Marie and Bill Huston. Dave Weinand on upright bass, Emily Rose Lewis on fiddle, and Todd May on drums comprise the remaining members of the Monocle Band. For The Clearing, the group also brought in a … Read more