Steep Canyon Rangers

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, […]

Steep Canyon Rangers “Arm in Arm”

February 17, 2021 Tim Newby 0

‘Arm in Arm’ continues the forward-thinking evolution and journey of the Steep Canyon Rangers. The Steep Canyon Rangers had long tread the thin line between traditional and the progressive bluegrass For some bands existing between those […]

Steep Canyon Rangers “Sunny Days” – Listen

September 25, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, we bring Bluegrass Tracks Week to a close (you did, dear reader, notice that it was Bluegrass Tracks Week? Good) with a new single from the upcoming album ‘Arm in Arm‘, out on Yep Roc […]

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Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

March 20, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from British slacker twang quartet Brown Horse, the third and final single from their upcoming album Total Dive […]

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

March 20, 2026 1

Danny George Wilson delivers a reflective and beautifully crafted set of songs exploring loss, memory, and the difficult business of moving on. Danny George Wilson follows up the Danny & The Champions of the World album, […]

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

March 20, 2026 0

Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum has announced his new album Birds of Paradise, “a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves,” which will come out on May 22 via Dear Life Records, and […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

Amy Speace “The Blue Rock Session”

December 1, 2025 2

Amy Speace strips everything back – and proves how powerful her voice and songs are. Some albums feel deliberate – structured, strategised, road-mapped to the last harmony. “The Blue Rock Session” is the opposite, an album […]

Tracks

Austin Lucas “Baby, I’m An Anarchist” – surely you knew?

April 13, 2023 1

Here’s a pretty little song – a sweet melody of laid-back country-tinged Americana. However, you might like to check the lyrics quite closely because then you’ll find that Austin Lucas is as angry as ever, and […]

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Lizzie No “Annie Oakley” – living the Americana dream…

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This latest single from Lizzie No’s new concept album ‘Halfsies‘ (out on January 19th, from Thirty Tigers) finds her main character out on the road, following the troubadour dream. Or should that be nightmare – as […]

Steep Canyon Rangers “Sweet Spot” – touching bluegrass nirvana

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

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

Steep Canyon Rangers “Arm in Arm”

Steep Canyon Rangers “Sunny Days” – Listen

Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

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