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Grant Gordy is one of the leading contemporary practitioners of “Dawg Music.” “Dawg” is a style pioneered by mandolin master David Grisman back in the 1970s when he headed a quintet that featured, among others, guitarist Tony Rice and fiddle player Darrell Anger. This hybrid strain contains elements of bluegrass, gypsy jazz, bee-bop and so-called…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Changes
Amanda Cook’s latest album combines her distinctive voice, tight picking from her band and solid songwriting from some of bluegrass’s best pens to create a winner. Changes is Cook’s fourth full length studio album with Mountain Fever records. It follows Narrowing the Gap, which was released in 2021. The new album has already been well…