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Alison Brown and Steve Martin (Featuring Tim O’Brien) “5 Days Out, 2 Days Back” – touring tales

April 2, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s the tale of the touring life – away for 5 days straight and then home to the family for a couple of days and then…repeat.  It’s also a taste of an upcoming album from banjo […]
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Alison Brown and Steve Martin “Wall Guitar (Since You Said Goodbye)” – featuring Vince Gill

November 19, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
A new song from Alison Brown and her talented sidekick Steve Martin is always welcome.  Their latest collaboration began as a gentle clawhammer banjo melody and evolved into a wistful song about unrequited love, shimmering with […]
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Steve Martin and Alison Brown “Bluegrass Radio” – Turn it up, they’re playing our song

March 19, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
This latest song from banjo maestro Alison Brown and johnny-come-lately upstart picker Steve Martin* is a follow up to the pair’s 2023 hit ‘Foggy Morning Breaking.’  It was the success of that which inspired Steve Martin […]
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Alison Brown & Steve Martin “Foggy Morning Breaking” – Scruggs Style and Clawhammer duet

April 5, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Wednesday afternoon – at last.  What a week it has been, tell me about it.  Crazy.  So much craziness all around – don’t get me started.  You know, it’s a real relief to reach the Chilled […]
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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 […]

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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