Sunday, July 6, 2014

CD REVIEW: DETOUR - GOING NOWHERE FAST

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Just so the gentle reader knows, I am being real careful here. My intent is to insure that I not overstate my delight with Michigan based bl...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Prescription Bluegrass CD Review - GRITS & SOUL Flood Waters!

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I find myself drawn to new music that expands the borders of traditional music, that edginess is what I search for. That first generation of...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

PRESCRIPTION BLUEGRASS REVIEWS: Red June - Ancient Dreams

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I wasn't ready for Red June . I looked over the CD cover and grazed over the liner notes. I saw the word “Organic.” I saw a non Martin g...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

PRESCRIPTION BLUEGRASS REVIEWS: GENTLEMEN OF BLUEGRASS - Carolina Memories!

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As I started to listen to this CD, “Carolina Memories,” by The Gentlemen Of Bluegrass, I couldn’t help but think of my Mother. The word “ge...
Friday, May 2, 2014

Prescription Bluegrass CD Review: MohaviSoul - Blue Diesel

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I have often daydreamed about how great it would be to live in a town or part of the country where you couldn't swing a dead cat withou...
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Saturday, April 26, 2014

Prescription Bluegrass Reviews - Johnny Campbell & The Bluegrass Drifters

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“ ... This CD is proof that traditions are still being passed from generation to generation. Thanks to guys like Johnny Campbell, this musi...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Prescription Bluegrass Reviews MA CROW & THE LADY SLIPPERS - Memory Of A Mountain

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25 years ago the idea of women playing bluegrass, serious bluegrass, was still a novelty. There was a smattering of female artists and ba...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Prescription Bluegrass Reviews - BLUEGRASS EXPRESS - In Our Own Words

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If you want to record a bluegrass CD and make sure it is special, unique and individualized, keep it in the family! That rule of thumb seem...
Friday, April 4, 2014

Prescription Bluegrass Reviews - Johnny Campbell & The Bluegrass Drifters !

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Before the days of home computers, digital terminology and ProTools, and before genre-bending Bluegrass influences like Doyle Lawson, Tony ...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Prescription Bluegrass Reviews CIRCA BLUE - A Darker Blue!

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After listening to “A Darker Blue” several times over several days and after reading the twelve panels of liner notes and lyrics in th...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Prescription Bluegrass Reviews - MIPSO - Dark Holler Pop

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If you have never heard of the North Carolina band Mipso , you are most likely not alone. The group formed in 2010 when Jacob Sharp (mandol...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Prescription Bluegrass Reviews Walt Crider and the Old Time Way - The Ballad of Johnny Anderson

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All across America , and the world for that matter, there are bluegrass bands cut from the same cloth as Walt Crider and the Old Time Way. ...