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BGS 5+5: Adam Chaffins
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BGS 5+5: Adam Chaffins

Artist: Adam Chaffins Hometown: Louisa, Kentucky Latest Album: Trailer Trash EP (released May 16, 2025) Personal Nicknames: “Chaffins” Genre is dead (long live genre!), but how would you describe the genres and styles your music inhabits? I’ve con...
By: BGS Staff
This Faux Paws Playlist Includes ‘No Bad Ideas’
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This Faux Paws Playlist Includes ‘No Bad Ideas’

Growing up with access to all of recorded music, it’s hard to imagine not enjoying a wide range of styles. When we all met around fifteen years ago, it was fun to see where our backgrounds overlapped and where they didn’t. Eventually, after lots o...
By: Guest Columnist
Premieres

You Gotta Hear This: New Music From Brothers Comatose, Caitlin Canty, and More

Your weekly dose of brand new roots music is here – You Gotta Hear This! Our West Coast friends, The Brothers Comatose, kick us off this week with their new single, “Golden Grass.” The title track for their upcoming album, it’s a loping bluegrass number that pays tribute to the ...
Basic Folk

Basic Folk: Morgan Toney

Circles have played a huge role in fiddler and singer Morgan Toney‘s life thus far: from drum circles, to talking circles, to the Earth itself (a circle!). In our Basic Folk conversation, Morgan talks about his L’nu (also known as Mi’kmaq) heritage and growing up on what’s...
<thrive_headline click tho-post-68684 tho-test-522>Drew Kennedy’s “Head Out West” Playlist</thrive_headline>
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Drew Kennedy’s “Head Out West” Playlist

I’ve been enamored by the West since I first set a dusty boot down in Marathon, Texas – a town that would be my spiritual hometown, if such things existed. I made my last record, Marathon, with my incredibly talented friend Davis Naish in a tiny a...
By: Guest Columnist