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PlaylistsOct 1, 2024

No one on earth plays the guitar like Yasmin Williams. When the BGS team was first introduced to her music – back a few years now, in 2017 or 2018, during our annual programming for our Shout & Shine diversity showcase – it was an objectively jaw-dropping discovery. We've covered many singular musicians, instrumentalists, and…

PlaylistsSep 30, 2024

Welcome to my dinner party. It's a potluck, of course, and because I can't cook so well, I picked up a few cases of Miller High Life. Maybe a couple bottles of chilled red: delicious! Someone cooked an orzo salad, someone else made Ina Garten's Engagement Chicken, maybe some tomato/mozz/basil type of dish – I…

PlaylistsSep 23, 2024

Welcome to the playlist you probably didn’t have on your bingo card this year: a series of songs spanning from gospel music to '90s folk to contemporary singer-songwriters, all curated by a drag queen with a number one Christian album under her belt. I’m Flamy Grant, and I’m honored that BGS invited me to share…

PlaylistsSep 16, 2024

I’m honored to create a playlist for BGS. I’ll share a Mixtape inspired by the theme of time and celebrating the here and now. I grew up in Virginia by the water and my musical life has been influenced by the seasons and the tides. Life (so far) has been a counterpoint of going with…

PlaylistsSep 4, 2024

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings are ubiquitous in American roots music. The life and musical partners have spent nearly 30 years defining and redefining what it means to be prolific bluegrass, old-time, and Americana inhabiters and masters. Now, with the release of Woodland, their first studio album in four years, it seems they're entering a new…