Jesse McReynolds and Charles Whitstein kick off A Tribute to Brother Duets with a poignant
tribute to Jesse's own brother, Jim McReynolds. Indeed, Gone But Not Forgotten, like many other songs on the album, dig deep into the fabric of ...
Mandolin player and singer Chris Thile's band Punch Brothers may have a standard bluegrass lineup
also including a guitar, banjo, fiddle, and bass, but if their music fits into the bluegrass category at all, it's only because of that instrumentation. ...
Like many Rhino compilations, this is geared more to the novice or the casual fan
than the aficionado, but that's not a criticism. If someone wants a basic primer of the bluegrass sound past and present that manages to be ...
Originally released on LP in 1972, this was the first album Ralph Stanley recorded with
what many still consider the best band he ever had, one that included not only lead singer Roy Lee Centers (whose vocal similarity to Stanley's ...
Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent were in-demand bluegrass session players who worked with the likes
of Ricky Skaggs and Doyle Lawson before venturing out as a duo, modeling themselves on classic genre duos the Louvins, the Delmores, and the Monroes, ...
The double-disc set Disney: The Music Behind the Magic was conceived as a celebration of
50 years of Walt Disney Records, but it also works very well as a collection of greatest hits from the studio's films, theme parks, and ...
Banjoist Alison Brown isn't an innovator along the lines of, say, Béla Fleck -- she
doesn't play a tricked-out electric instrument or go off on electro-jazz fusion excursions. What she plays is mostly fairly straight-ahead modern jazz with elements of ...
While they're inarguably superb pickers well versed in bluegrass traditions, the Infamous Stringdusters have always
been a group eager to push at the accepted boundaries of the genre, and 2017's Laws of Gravity, their seventh studio album, exists in a ...
