"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" was released just over ten years ago. The movie- and more so, the soundtrack recording- gave bluegrass music a possibly unprecedented 'bump'- arguably more than even "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Deliverance" did a generation [...]

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For most of the last decade, bluegrass was dominated by a handful of familiar names: McCoury, Vincent, Skaggs, Stanley, and Lawson to name some of the most successful. A changing of the guard appears underway as time catches up to some, as the impact of others fade, allowing previously less-heard [...]

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I've been listening to Chris Jones & the Night Drivers quite frequently the past two weeks. Chris Jones is a bluegrass and Americana artist who should be better known than he is, in my opinion. For a number of reasons, he doesn't maintain the profile of more acclaimed bluegrass [...]

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