There’s a lot of fun to be had with Great Colonial America Projects You Can Build Yourself, for both children and adults. There’s history turned into story and sharing, so that even if, maybe especially if, history was never your best subject, you and ...
Stephanie Bettman Get Close to Me Stephanie Bettman is a fiddle player, songwriter, and singer whose work might be closest to country music — indeed might fit well in many country playlists — but whose sound and style also brings in touches of jazz, ...
Two women who found they liked to sing together and practiced their harmonizing in a stairwell at their workplace: that was the beginning of the The Stairwell Sisters. There are five musical sisters now, who all sing, and between them play more than a ...
Darrell Scott is a master musician, a songwriter who balances the story telling lines of folk music with the hooks of contemporary country and the musical solid structures that classic country writers built on. Suzy Bogguss, herself a musician who’d ...
Any place Ray Bierl hangs his hat is home, to go by the baker’s dozen of traveling songs he’s chose here. The thing is, the California based songwriter tells these tales as though both the road and the places are his home, and you believe he’s ridden ...
This is the real deal, straight up, straight ahed bluegrass. played with energy and passion by men who’ve been working together for years. Lead singer and band leader Danny Paisley is the Pennsylvania born son of Blue Ridge North Carolina parents who ...
Denice Franke will introduce you to a range of characters as you listen to the eleven songs on Gulf Coast Blue. There’s an elegant one, and several who’ve been crushed and wounded by circumstance, and taken that in different ways, some who are ...
It’s easy to picture Old Man Luedecke playing the songs on his latest album, Proof of Love, at coffeehouse or a pub, and at an informal gathering of musicians in the kitchen or on the back porch too. It’s just the man (who’s really not that old) and ...
Thirty five tracks drawn from the hope, healing,despair, pain, love and faith of the African American spiritual tradition are what Andrew Calhoun and his musical friends offer on Bound to Go. Most of the tracks a quite short, a verse or two, a minute ...
You may have heard Becky Schlegel’s brand of country/Americana/bluegrass music on the renown radio show A Prairie Home Companion, or come upon her singing at and International Bluegrass Association showcase or at one of her many gigs in the American ...
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