If you’re a fan of bluegrass or acoustic music in general, and Tony Rice is not on your short list of greatest guitarists, then the only possible reason is that you’ve never heard him play. Rice, who died in 2020 at age 69, was a master craftsman whose influence, particularly when he performed in tandem […]
Few singer-songwriters of the last decade have built a fanbase as absolutely adoring as Maggie Rogers. There’s a throughline all the way up the ladder to Taylor Swift. While Rogers isn’t filling arenas with radio pop anthems, the emotional frankness of her lyrics, and her authenticity, both in song and onstage, falls in the same […]
You can’t even begin to have a conversation about the 1960s folk revival without talking about the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. The singer and guitarist introduced acoustic music combining folk, blues and jazz to many thousands of young people at the time, and also provided a launching pad for artists like Geoff Muldaur and his […]
