Artist: Rebecca Lynn Howard Hometown: Salyersville, Kentucky Latest Album: Iâm Not Who You Think I Am (out May 2, 2025) Personal Nicknames (or rejected band names): My family and friends call me Aunt B What has been the best advice youâve received in your career so far? The best advice Iâve ever received is to tell…
Artist: Sterling Drake Hometown: Philipsburg, Montana Latest Album: The Shape I'm In (out May 2, 2025 via Calusa Music/Missing Piece Records) Personal Nicknames (or rejected band names): âSterl Haggardâ If you had to write a mission statement for your career, what would it be? Roots country and folk music have a way of bringing people…
The accordion is like a cousin you donât see very often, but who is an integral, colorful member of the family. In country, folk, bluegrass and related roots music from the U.S., the accordion has always been there, more of a presence than you might think. Itâs central to styles such as zydeco, Cajun, and…
They may be called The Lil Smokies, but the bluegrass bangers birthed by the band originating from Big Sky country are anything but small. Formed in the late 2000s when the group's current sole remaining original member, Andy Dunnigan, began bringing his Dobro to picking parties during his college days in Missoula, Montana, the Smokies…
After 14 years, one of the biggest and most well-known bluegrass bands in the history of the music, Alison Krauss & Union Station, have returned with a brand new studio album, Arcadia. Released on March 28 to the delight of bluegrass and AKUS fans the world over, the collection doesn't merely pick up where the group…
