Here’s another band we heard and met at NW Folklife. Nettle Honey is an old-time quartet from Seattle, WA that plays equal parts classic standards and original compositions. Their sound is as pure as the Northwest rain that falls on her mist-shrouded mountains and fills her roaring rivers. They’ve taken pure-core Appalachian chops and applied [...]
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Nettle Honey: Wild Greens and the Old Path (MP3)
Posted in acoustic, banjo, female singer, festival, fiddle, male singer, old-time, singer-songwriter, traditional, tagged acoustic, banjo, female singer, festival, fiddle, male singer, old-time, singer-songwriter, traditional on June 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Alison Krauss & Union Station: Paper Airplane (MP3)
Posted in acoustic, banjo, bluegrass, country, dobro, female singer, fiddle, tagged acoustic, banjo, bluegrass, country, dobro, female singer, fiddle on April 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The new record from smoothgrass icons Alison Krauss & Union Station, titled Paper Airplane (Rounder Records), will hit the streets on April 12, 2011. Fans of Krauss will recognize her usual band of all-star pickers and distinctive vocal style. The players are Jerry Douglas (Dobro, lap steel, vocals), Dan Tyminski (guitar, mandolin, lead vocal), Ron [...]
Cahalen Morrison and Eli West: The Holy Coming of the Storm (MP3)
Posted in acoustic, banjo, bluegrass, bouzouki, country, dobro, male singer, old-time, singer-songwriter, tagged acoustic, banjo, bluegrass, bouzouki, country, dobro, male singer, old-time, singer-songwriter on March 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Here’s another sweet new record that has come to Fiddlefreak by way of Devon at Hearth Music. The Holy Coming of the Storm from Cahalen Morrison and Eli West hit the streets on January 30 and has been stuck in my CD player ever since. Their new old-time bluegrass songs strike just the right balance [...]
Pharis & Jason Romero & Friends: Back Up and Push (MP3)
Posted in acoustic, banjo, country, female singer, fiddle, male singer, old-time, traditional, tagged acoustic, banjo, country, female singer, male singer, old-time, traditional on February 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I wish I could say that I had created a concept album like this one. About how two down-home folks from Horsefly, British Columbia motored south out of Canada and recorded every fiddler they met along the way, down to the Bay Area of California and back. But I couldn’t phrase it any better than [...]
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