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The Original Bluegrass Girl Pulling Her Own Weight With the Blue Grass Boys Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine June 2000, Volume 34, Number 12 One of the standard beliefs about bluegrass music is that, in its formative years,bluegrass was “almost completely a male domain,” as Bufwack and Oermann describe itin Finding Her Voice: The Saga…

Photos By Edwin G. Huffman Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine April 1968 (Volume 2, Number 10) My first knowledge of the BU poll, as for most other subscribers, came whenI arrived at the last page of my December issue, I’ve always wanted to know more about the kind of people interested enough in bluegrass to…

Amy Gallatin ‘Tis the season Happy Appy Records As have many other musicians over the first three-quarters of this year, Amy Gallatin has spent this quarantine time turning her attention to a oft-considered but long-unfinished project: recording 20 of the tunes she performs in her Christmas shows with the Christmas in New England ensemble and…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine October, 1968 — Volume 3, Number 4 Jimmy Martin is one of the most colorful and controversial artists in bluegrass music today. Over the years, he has produced some great bluegrass recordings and he stands among the giants of the music. Very little has been written accurately about this man,…

Fast Track Fast Track EMG 10370 The self-titled debut CD from Fast Track shows all the mandatory DNA of a modern bluegrass band. Great lead vocals. Refined harmonies. A good mix of original and external tunes that sound and feel mostly like classics. A superstar instrumentalist supported by four top-shelf bluegrass musicians. But do they…

Julie And John Pennell Keep On Walking JPE Records  JPE 0003 The Pennells are partners in life and song. They can move between the various forms of American music with ease. Julie sings in an expressive voice with a clarity that belies the subtly she imbues into each lyric. She and John wrote most of…