Favourite Roots Albums of Quarter 1, 2023

I’ve encountered some really great roots music these first three months of 2023, and thought I would feature some of the finest as my Favourites of the First Quarter. They are not necessarily in position order from 1 to 12, but they could be… Iris DeMent- Workin’ On A World It has been too many…

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Tim Stafford & Thomm Jutz- Lost Voices review

A few weeks ago I was asked by Country Standard Time to review the latest from Tim Stafford and the prolific Thomm Jutz. The review was published in a fairly timely manner, but I neglected to cross-post it here: so the review can be found at the CST site. My unedited version is posted below;…

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Blue Highway- Original Traditional review

Blue Highway Original Traditional Rounder Records For more than twenty years, listeners have been privileged every couple years to encounter a new album from Blue Highway. Original Traditional, their eleventh and first since Dobroist Rob Ickes departed, continues their most recent blueprint: original music written or co-written by band members along with a single traditional…

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Recent Bluegrass Purchases

In this ever changing world in which we live in… As some of you know, I’ve been writing semi-professionally about bluegrass and roots music for almost ten years- in fact, I do believe my first cheque came through a decade ago this month. Over the years I’ve received more wonderful music from labels than I’ll…

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