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Barry Poss and Sugar Hill Records
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine October 1982, Volume 17, Number 4 Ten years ago, if a gypsy fortune teller had told Barry Poss that he would someday run a small but successful record company with the unlikely name of “Sugar Hill,” he probably would have laughed and asked for his money back. Ten years and…
Alison Krauss & Union Station—Flight Plan Paper Airplane Lands AKUS Back On The Bus
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine October 2011, Volume 46, Number 4 When rock’s Golden God met the Grammys’ all-time winning woman, he had something on his mind. “My first conversation with Robert (Plant) in person was about Ralph Stanley,” Alison Krauss says, sipping tea in the kitchen of her Nashville home. “I loved that. Robert’s…
Alison Krauss and Union Station
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine June 1991, Volume 25, Number 12 “If only all those country (or pop or rock) fans who say they don’t like bluegrass would just give it a listen, they’d love it.” “If only the mass media would give bluegrass some positive exposure…” Those of us who care about bluegrass are…
Mason Via
Mason Via’s arrival on the scene as a solo artist has caused quite a stir, and deservedly so. He has an expressive and engaging tenor voice and a penchant for poignant original love songs with adroit lyrics and nearly irresistible hooks. The North Carolina native is an alumnus of Old Crow Medicine Show and his…
In-Law Country: How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, 1968-1985
Country Music Foundation Press, 2024 Geoffrey Himes has written about music for the Washington Post, Smithsonian magazine, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Jazz Times, and Sing Out since the late 1970s, as well as a book about Bruce Springsteen. He was a contributing editor at No Depression from the late 1990s through the early 2000s, and his articles have…
Neste Steg (Next Step)
Strengeplukk (“string plucking”) is the newest release from this talented band based in Stavanger, Norway. They consist of Andreas Barnes Onarhiem (mandolin, vocals), Jakob Folke Ossum (guitar, vocals), Mikael Jonassen (banjo, vocals), Nikolai Storevik (fiddle, vocals), and Vidar Starheimsaeter (bass, vocals). Formed in 2015, the group has become one of Norway’s top bluegrass bands combining…