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BGS Wraps: It’s the Rootsiest Time of the Year
Music

BGS Wraps: It’s the Rootsiest Time of the Year

Each year, the BGS Team likes to “wrap up” the year in music by featuring holiday, seasonal, and festive tunes and songs throughout the month of December. It’s a perfect way to generate holiday cheer while shining a light on some of the high quali...
By: BGS Staff
Premieres

You Gotta Hear This: New Music From John McCutcheon, Scroggins & Rose, and More

Our last premiere roundup before the holidays – and therefore, our last of the year! – is full of country, folk, new acoustic, and more. Here are the songs and videos you gotta hear. In the country camp, check out “Don’t You Dare” by singer-songwriter Ben Chapman from his upcomi...
Basic Folk

Basic Folk: A Wild 2024 Ride

It’s 2024 recap time on Basic Folk! Cindy & Lizzie dive into a most special year-end reflection, featuring highlights from our honest conversations with folk musicians. We revisit the top episode of the year, Anna Tivel & Jeffrey Martin’s insightful discussion on navigating ar...
First & Latest

25 Years On, Yonder Mountain String Band Keep Redefining Bluegrass

For a quarter century Yonder Mountain String Band has inspired a generation of bluegrass fans with its fusion of traditional sounds and intricate jams. That trend continues on Nowhere Next. The band’s first full-length album since 2022, it showcases the abilities of its two newest members – mando...
Mixtape

MIXTAPE: Thomas Cassell’s Songs to Pass the Time

2024 is winding down and like any other year, there’s a lot to say goodbye to as we welcome in the future. Memories (the good and bad), loved ones, homes – all seem to eventually become markers in time. A marker in my ‘24 was the release of my third record, The Never-Ending Years, in […]
BGS Wraps

BGS Wraps: Roots Music For the Season

Each year, the BGS Team likes to “wrap up” the year in music by featuring holiday, seasonal, and festive tunes and songs throughout the month of December. It’s a perfect way to generate holiday cheer while shining a light on some of the high quality new – and timeless! – seasona...
Premieres

You Gotta Hear This: New Music From Hanneke Cassel, Zoe & Cloyd, and More

This week, our premiere roundup is full of brand new music videos and performance videos for your viewing pleasure. Fiddler and composer Hanneke Cassel kicks us off with an exciting, dance-ready remix of “Dot The Dragon’s Eyes” that celebrates the 10th anniversary of her album b...
Good Country

‘Welcome to the Plains’ and to the Red Dirt Universe of Wyatt Flores

Each year, the country music machine and its many fans and acolytes turn over, again and again and again, the quintessential question of “What is authenticity?” We’ve asked that very question quite a few times on Good Country over the last year ourselves, and we know as long as ...
Dead in December

Artist of the Month: Dead in December

(Editor’s Note: This December, we continue our annual series – see also: Dolly in December, Dawg in December, Dylan in December, and Del in December – by celebrating the iconic, trailblazing jam band, the Grateful Dead, all month long! We’ll be featuring the Grateful Dead as our Artis...
5+5

BGS 5+5: Kasey Anderson

Artist: Kasey Anderson Hometown: Portland, Oregon Latest Album: To the Places We Lived Personal Nicknames (or rejected band names): For a brief while in my early 30s I was convincing people to call me “T-Bone,” but it died out pretty quick. Which artist has influenced you the most – a...
Lists

2024 BGS Holiday Guide

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! As we count down the days to holiday and family gatherings, our to-do lists stack up, getting longer and longer. Not sure what to get the musicians, roots artists, and music lovers in your life this year? Never fear! Together with our BGS team, our ...
Travis Book Happy Hour

Travis Book Happy Hour: Chris Eldridge

Chris Eldridge and I met when I stepped off of an elevator with my bass at the International Bluegrass Music Association’s convention in 2004. The Infamous Stringdusters were forming in Nashville at the time and they needed a bass player for the jam that night and, it turned out, for the ba...