It’s a festively boozy week on The Breakdown – Emma’s been at the drinks cabinet and so, it seems, have the Punch Brothers. Is their wild and woozy Antifogmatic even a bluegrass record? We join Noam, Gabe and Critter in London to find the answer – then track down Chris Thile in New York to steal his cocktail recipes.
Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley were both only 17 years old when they recorded Second Generation Bluegrass. Ricky Skaggs joins The Breakdown to talk about this iconic album.
Aereo-Plain is probably the greatest album John Hartford ever made — but when it came out in 1971, even his record label didn’t know what to make of it.
Béla Fleck’s virtuosic 1988 instrumental album, “Drive,” is a touchstone of modern acoustic music, and has influenced almost every bluegrasser looking to break new ground since.
Emma and Patrick dissect Flatt & Scruggs “At Carnegie Hall!” in the debut episode of The Breakdown Podcast.