Reviews

Silver Bullet Bluegrass

Bob Seger cut a wide swath across the rock ’n’ roll landscape for decades, giving us classic hits like “Night Moves,” “Turn the Page,” “Main Street,” “Like a Rock” and “Old Time Rock ’n’ Roll,” among others. These songs have endured because they often captured the uneasy spirit of their times. This fine collection reminds…

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Jubilee

Tennessean Becky Buller is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. She has won awards for Fiddle Player and Female Vocalist, and her songs have won Grammy awards for groups like The Travelin’ McCourys, The Infamous Stringdusters, and Molly Tuttle. Her songs have also been recorded by such as Ricky Skaggs, Doyle Lawson and Rhonda Vincent. …

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Restless

Well all I can say is “Wow, folks!” Adam McIntosh has got a hit record here with his solo debut Restless, from Billy Blue Records. Boasting big talent from some of his fellow bluegrass constituents such as Jason Barie from the Radio Ramblers, and Evan Lanier of Dry Branch Fire Squad. The album features vocals…

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Talking To Strangers

Singer-songwriter Jack McKeon makes a big impression on his debut album. Drawing on influences ranging from John Hartford and John Prine to Guy Clark and Hal Ketchum, McKeon has perfected the gift of finding pathos and drama in everyday occurrences, conversations and meditations. He does it in a style that’s unique and captivating with eminently…

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I Built A World

I Built A World seems just about the right title for the second album from Bronwyn Keith-Hynes.  Keith-Hynes is the fiddle player for Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, a little band you may have heard that has started collecting Grammy Awards to go with previously earned IBMA hardware. Keith-Hynes has already won two IBMA Fiddle…

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Gospel Sessions Vol. 2

This new release from this East Tennessee band is a follow-up project to their 2022 release Gospel Sessions Vol. 1. The band, formed by three former members of Doyle Lawson’s Quicksilver, is Eli Johnston (banjo), Stephen Burwell (fiddle), Jerry Cole (bass), Jesse Brock (mandolin) and John Meader (guitar). As the band did with their previous…

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