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Charlie Treat Releases 4th Album ‘Dawn is Breaking’

Nancy Posey
When Charlie Treat released his bluegrass album Into the Wild Mystic Mountain in 2022, he says he had told himself he was going to “make the folkiest thing I can make, and then I’m going to make the least folky thing I can do.” His fourth album Dawn Is Breaking,......
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Tony Trischka’s ‘Earl Jam’ Gets Grammy Nomination

Nancy Posey
This year has been good to Tony Trischka, but not without major effort on his part. With his own place solidly secured in the world of bluegrass banjo, Trischka has taken on a labor of love honoring one of his banjo heroes Earl Scruggs. With the release of Earl Jam,......
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Henhouse Prowlers Release ‘Line the Avenues’ in Time for Veterans Day

Nancy Posey
In advance of Veteran’s Day, the Chicago-based bluegrass band Henhouse Prowlers released their single “Line the Avenues,” an intensely personal song for banjo player Ben Wright. The idea for the song, as reflected in the final verse, originated years ago when Wright was visiting his paternal grandparents in West Bend,......
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High Lonesome Releases Self-Titled Debut Album

Nancy Posey
While Chuck Sitero has been fronting High Lonesome in various iterations for a while, the bluegrass band’s self-titled first album came together as the band itself gelled. Hailing from outside Atlanta, Sitero and his wife headed to Colorado during the beginning of Covid. “We realized we were not going to......
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Thomas Cassell Releases “The Never-Ending Years”

Nancy Posey
Thomas Cassell’s mandolin skills have long garnered respect in the bluegrass world. He is regularly enlisted to play on stage and in the studio with the biggest names in music and with the rising stars. His third solo album The Never-Ending Years, released October 4 on Mountain Fever Records, provides......
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Alan Walker’s A LITTLE TOO LATE: Right on Time

Nancy Posey
On his latest album A Little Too Late, Alan Walker, singer-songwriter and former front man for The Brilliant Mistakes, channels the music that shaped his own musical journey. He acknowledges the profound impact of hearing the Beatles Let It Be for the first time through the walls of his childhood......
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The Montvales Release Their Sophomore Album ‘Born Strangers’

Nancy Posey
Born Strangers, the second full-length album by The Montvales, a folk duo composed of Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson, invites listening—real listening—as the pair of singer-songwriters weigh in on their world. Buice admits that the songs on the album “end up sounding a lot more powerful and hopeful than we......