Steep Canyon Rangers

Steep Canyon Rangers “Morning Shift”

September 13, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 0

Storytelling to the finest bluegrass. ‘Morning Shift’ further blazes the Steep Canyon Rangers trail of North Carolina bluegrass and storytelling. Anticipation of this 14th studio album was always going to be high following the departure of […]

Video: Steep Canyon Rangers “Deep End”

August 25, 2023 Ed Donnelly 0

The Steep Canyon Rangers get deep with new singer Aaron Burdett. The first single from their new album is ‘Deep End’ and showcases Burdett fitting seamlessly into his new role. The band is shown in performance […]

Steep Canyon Rangers “Sweet Spot” – touching bluegrass nirvana

June 16, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

All different things can be a ‘Sweet Spot‘ and bluegrass champions Steep Canyon Rangers list a large number of them on their new single which emerged about a week ago. Of the track banjo player Graham […]

Classic Clips: Steep Canyon Rangers “Tell The Ones I Love” – Blue Ox Music Festival, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, June 2018

April 1, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 0

Steep Canyon Rangers have a firm foot in both the traditional and more progressive bluegrass camps. Nine years after forming at UNC in 2000 they were discovered by Steve Martin who adopted them as his backing […]

Steep Canyon Rangers “It Ain’t Me” – this is not a cover, so Listen

June 10, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

If you’re imagining there should be a “babe” at the end of that song title then, this time, it’s not the case. The Steep Canyon Ranger’s new single is almost the mirror image of Dylan’s song, […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers