This NEW YORK banjo player was raised on a family group diet of country & western and old-time music but had not been subjected to bluegrass before Camp Springs Bluegrass Festival became established about an hour’s drive from where Lunsford was raised. The festival, operate by musician Carlton Haney, helped …

Mandolinist Pee Wee Lambert appears like a content guy in the promotion photographs which exist of him. Maybe he’s grinning at the theory that at that time these photos had been used, he was assisting to create a fresh design of Appalachian music that might be called bluegrass. Or possibly …

Earl “Joaquin” Murphey was a kid prodigy from the lap-steel acoustic guitar who, as an adolescent, was discovered and promptly enlisted by Spade Cooley’s music group. Although his advanced calculating out of chords and labyrinthine single-string works might perhaps become standard operating process of the present day pedal metal guitarist, …

Tortoise revolutionized American indie rock and roll within the mid-’90s by using straight down tried-and-true punk and rock and roll & roll affects, emphasizing instead the incorporation of a number of left-field music styles from the prior twenty years, including Krautrock, dub, avant-garde jazz, classical minimalism, ambient and space music, …