by Nick DeRiso Inspired by a record-release performance by the Toronto-based Foggy Hogtown Boys, fellow Canadian Bradford Monk decided to compose a traditional bluegrass recording. By that, he didn’t mean sped-up country songs. He meant honest-to-goodness, real-deal bluegrass – done the old-fashioned way, with no winking irony or next-gen updates. His singular focus has paid rich dividends. Their self-titled CD, [...]
by Nick DeRiso We know Charlie Haden as the bass-playing ground wire on scores of jazz’s more important works — not least of which was his late 1950s turn with the shape-shifting improvisational genius Ornette Coleman. Later, Haden was memorably featured alongside John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, with his own Liberation Music Orchestra and then the hipster noir band [...]
by Nick DeRiso They are the two-by-fours that make up country music’s earliest construction, rootsy legends whose very names conjure never-faded invention and old-timey amusements. That’s probably why nobody messes with Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. It’s like tugging on Superman’s cape. Well, except 13-time Grammy-winning bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs, whose tribute to them — out today — [...]
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