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The three full-time people from the string music group referred to as the Carolina Chocolate Drops (Dom Flemons on guitar, jug, and harmonica, Rhiannon Giddens on banjo and fiddle, and Justin Robinson on banjo and fiddle — Sule Greg Wilson sometimes sits in on percussion) met in 2005 on the …

Describing their design as “songs for old souls,” Hoots and Hellmouth certainly are a Philadelphia-based root base music take action whose music includes the passion of alt-country as well as the rustic strengthen of acoustic folk, merging them with loping jam strap grooves. Sean Hoots and Andrew Grey (aka Hellmouth) …

Los Angeles-based Aged Guy Markley are hardly an average music group, delivering a crazy, down-home sound that’s equivalent parts bluegrass and pure punk, recognizing the velocity and energy in both styles, and using their kitchen-sink method of materials (traditional fare, vintage pop and rock and roll songs, original tunes, anything …

Corb Lund is a Canadian roots-country vocalist/songwriter whose third recording, Five Dollar Expenses (2002), established him like a favourite among critics. Ahead of his mainstream discovery, he was an associate from the Smalls, a punk rock-band from Edmonton that by no means attained commercial achievement but was a local favorite …

Hill music revivalists Aged Crow Medicine Display spin traditional folk and bluegrass yarns having a rock & move attitude. Critter Fuqua (vocals/banjo/resonator acoustic guitar), Kevin Hayes (guitjo), Morgan Jahnig (upright bass), Ketch Secor (vocals/fiddle/harmonica/banjo), and Willie Watson (vocals/acoustic guitar/banjo) may focus on rags, hollers, and pre-World Battle II blues, however …

Being a drummerless acoustic trio comprising two guitarists along with a string bassist, the Devil Makes 3 aren’t your normal alt-country music group. While deeply rooted within the blues and nation music, they enthusiastically integrate components of bluegrass, ragtime, and jug music group traditions aswell. The group also makes no …

The Hackensaw Kids are not a family group band. Rather, the name originates from their freewheeling method of bluegrass and origins music. The Hackensaw Kids perform acoustic music using the joyous abandon of the rock-band, hacking at their guitars and mandolins, and sawing at their fiddles. The group was shaped …

The Kansas-based post-punk progressive bluegrass outfit Split Lip Rayfield was made up of vocalist/banjoist David Lawrence, guitarist/dobroist Kirk Rundstrom, and one-string bassist Jeff Eaton, whose instrument was fashioned through the gas tank of the 1965 Ford. An outgrowth of the group Scroat Stomach (though it didn’t consider long for these …

A country-folk duo hailing from eastern Kentucky, Sundy Best features Nick Jamerson and Kris Bentley, close friends since elementary college. Jamerson and Bentley mix nation, Appalachian folk, bluegrass, rock and roll, spirit, and R&B right into a stomping back-porch audio centered around Jamerson’s classical guitar, Bentley’s cajón (sort of portable …

Multi-genre-dabbling folk ensemble Elephant Revival shaped in Nederland, Colorado in 2006. The group shaped when five multi-instrumentalists arrived together to make a variety of folk-based music that fearlessly got cues from improbable influences such as for example jazz, traditional Celtic music, reggae, indie rock and roll, as well as hip-hop …