Scruggs Fest features Tucker, OId Crow, Stuart, Yonder Mountain
Jerry Douglas and The Earls of Leicester returns as hosts. First-time visitors include The Steeldrivers, Mighty Poplar, Lindsay Lou and Miko Marks.
Now entering its third year, Earl Scruggs Music Festival was established in partnership with WNCW 88.7 at Isothermal Community College in Spindale, N.C.
A portion of proceeds will support the festival's beneficiaries, the Earl Scruggs Center and Isothermal Community College, who serve Earl Scruggs' home region of the Carolina Foothills with cultural programming through multiple channels.
The full line-up is:
Tanya Tucker
Old Crow Medicine Show
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
Yonder Mountain String Band
The Steeldrivers
Peter Rowan & Sam Grisman Project
Mighty Poplar
Lindsay Lou
Pony Bradshaw
Darrell Scott's String Band
Miko Marks
The Grascals
Darin & Brooke Aldridge
AJ Lee & Blue Summit
Chris Jones & The Night Drivers
Travis Book Band
Shadowgrass
Casey Driessen's Red Shoe Stringjam
Twisted Pine
Wyatt Ellis
Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light
Carley Arrowood
The Faux Paws
Larry & Joe
Martha Spencer & The Wonderland Country Band
Tanasi
The Wilder Flower
Warren Wilson College Bluegrass Band
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- 06/02/23: Tucker, Jelly Roll release new CDs
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- 05/05/23: Tucker wonders "When the Rodeo is Over (Where Does the Cowboy Go?)"
CD reviews
While they started as a bluegrass band, Old Crow Medicine Show (OCMS) in recent years have won two Grammys and are considered one of our best roots bands, meshing Americana, old-timey music, folk and rock into an appealing sound. "Jubilee," their eighth studio album, is likely named for their 25th anniversary although the leadoff track is "Jubilee Jones."
Co-producer Matt Ross-Spang returns from their previous effort "Paint This Town" and they again recorded in ...
Tanya Tucker once again employed Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings to produce this album, and her producers also had a hand in writing some of its 10 songs. The album, the follow-up to 2019's "While I'm Livin'," which won the GRAMMY for Best Country Album, opens with the distinctive voice of Billy Joe Shaver singing about Tucker on "Tanya," and ends with the rodeo song "When The Rodeo Is Over (Where Do the Cowboys Go?)." It's still a little ...
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives opens with an instrumental, "Lost Byrd Space Train (Scene 1)," which is a nicely twisted way to phrase the musical roads Stuart travels. Stuart's music incorporates a whole lot of good stuff from traditional country to bluegrass to jangly, Byrds-y rock – and so much more. All of these sounds, and many others, inspired the 14 songs filling out this strong effort.
Stuart gets to the jangling part right away, with a contemplative, Roger ...
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