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Grant Dermody – Behind the Sun. Great Blues Harp!

Over the last month or so there have been three blues albums in my music rotation. Each features a great blues harmonica players. The albums are the latest release from: Bob Corritore, The Dig Three and Grant Dermody. I am going to start the discussion of these albums with Behind …

Stillhouse Junkies – Small Towns

Stillhouse Junkies – Small Towns Since this week’s theme is “It’s been a long time”, the first Roots Music charts I looked at this week we’re the Folk and Bluegrass Charts. Those charts along with the Folk DJ and Euro-Americana charts were where I found most of the new music …

Jeremy Garrett – River Wild Returns Me to Bluegrass!

So I started this post Sunday, when I was on ADHD overload, watching the Phillies game, listening to Savoy Brown’s Raw Sienna and writing this post??Earlier in the afternoon, I was listening to River Wild by Jeremy Garrett, while watching the game. Jeremy Garrett is one of those Americana musicians I …

The Dead South Revives a Love of Bluegrass

The Dead South Revives a Love of Bluegrass and Hopefully Blogging!! So it’s been a long time since I spent an afternoon on the hunt for new music. Maybe even longer since I searched the Roots Music Bluegrass chart, but I did just that yesterday. I discovered several bands that …

Ugh! Humidity Slows Me Down! The Bucking Mules Pick Me Up!

Yesterday’s Run: Humidity Slows Me Down While The Bucking Mules Pick Me Up! Yesterday’s run was both good and bad. The good was the great picking from The Bucking Mules while the bad was the high humidity! When the start of the run I knew the humidity was bad. It …

“Into the Night” with Tony Rice and Friends

Tony Rice – Guitarist Extraordinaire – Born June 8, 1951! Celebrating his birthday today, June 8th, in addtion to Boz Scaggs is the great musician Tony Rice. Tony was born just a few months before me in the year of 1951. Tony Rice is a great guitarist whose solo …

Hot Rize – When I’m Free

Note to Hot Rize: 24 yrs between albums is too long!! When I started to listen to a lot of music and collecting CDs, thanks to the used CD bins at Tunes in Marlton, in the early 2000s, I found the music of Tim O’Brien, an amazing multi-instrumentalist and …

“Into the Morning” with Two Bluegrass Masters – Jim Hurst and Rob Ickes – “Going Down that Road Feeling Bad”

This afternoon I was listening to the latest release from Breaking Grass Just as Strong, after listening for a while, I went and found a video of the band seems that the band has everything I like fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and bass, wait! There’s no dobro! But I listened …

“Into the Morning” with the progressive bluegrass of Greensky Bluegrass – “Demons”

One of the albums that has been in my rotation since it’s release last week, is If Sorrow Swims from Greensky Bluegrass. Greensky Bluegrass is one of my favorite progressive bluegrass bands. I discovered their music a few years back and loved the album Live at Bells, on that album …

High Marks for The High 48s’ Great Northern Railroad – Check them out!!

Yesterday, I was reviewing the Roots Music Bluegrass Chart and way down near the bottom, I came across a band whose name was unfamiliar with, The High 48s. Their latest release Great Northern Railroad was fittingly #48 on the chart. Since the album obviously had a train song on it, I …

Category: Bluegrass

Grant Dermody – Behind the Sun. Great Blues Harp!

Stillhouse Junkies – Small Towns

Jeremy Garrett – River Wild Returns Me to Bluegrass!

The Dead South Revives a Love of Bluegrass

Ugh! Humidity Slows Me Down! The Bucking Mules Pick Me Up!

“Into the Night” with Tony Rice and Friends

Hot Rize – When I’m Free

“Into the Morning” with Two Bluegrass Masters – Jim Hurst and Rob Ickes – “Going Down that Road Feeling Bad”

“Into the Morning” with the progressive bluegrass of Greensky Bluegrass – “Demons”

High Marks for The High 48s’ Great Northern Railroad – Check them out!!

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