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Railroad Town
There is a reason why some country and bluegrass songs have endured and become favorites. There’s nothing wrong with collecting a couple of handfuls of them and giving the people what they want from time to time. That’s what bluegrass veteran Junior Williams has delivered with Railroad Town, his first release for Mountain Fever records. …
Two Friends
The Debutones hail from the Pacific Northwest around the Seattle, Washington area. The group is made up of Debby Nagusky (vocals), Don Share (guitar, vocals), Greg Glassman (bass, guitar, vocals), Bob Knetzger (resonator guitar, banjo, pedal steel), and Julian Smedley (violin, viola, vocals). For this new project the band members could not get together in…
Darkest Hour
The music of the Gibson Brothers possesses a magic that even surpasses the sum of its remarkable core ingredients. These include near-perfect brotherly harmonies that are powerful in their emotional persuasion and understatement, and original songs infused with conversational honesty and humanity that resonate like instant classics. As such, Leigh and Eric are heirs apparent…
Stumblin’ Out Of The Gate
Even though these two master pickers —Jack Dunlap, one of the fastest guns on mandolin (and guitar) in the greater Washington, D.C. area, and Robert Mabe, a North Carolina-born banjo master—have been collaborating on and off for years, Dunlap started this project as a solo album about two years ago. After years of showcasing on…
Travelers Rest
There is that elusive thing in all genres of music to sound distinctive while still being true to the audience at whom the music is directed. The Foreign Landers have hit the mark with their debut full length album, Travelers Rest. They say it takes a story to sell art and the Foreign Landers have…
The American Fiddler
The most memorable musical moments are those when virtuosity is transcended into the realms of wizardry and magic, and this remarkable album is full of such moments. Leftwich has been accurately described as “one of the most recorded fiddle players of the 21st century.” Aside from a 16-year stint in Ricky Skaggs’ Kentucky Thunder, he’s…