(Vocals, guitar, b. 1959) Kathy Mattea joined bluegrass band Pennsboro as a student, before moving to Nashville. After working in Bobby Goldsboro’s road show, she signed with Mercury in 1983. Her first two albums were only modest successes, but Walk The Way The Wind Blows (1986) included her first Top 3 single – a cover of ...
(Vocals, songwriter, b. 1956) Lovett’s music spans folk, swing, jazz and country and has remained innovative since his eponymous 1986 album, which included his only Top 10 single, ‘Cowboy Man’. Touring with his so-called Large Band, which features the talents of Victor Krauss (brother of Alison), cellist John Hagen and harmony vocalist Francine Reed ...
(Vocals, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, b. 1954) Tim O’Brien is a good example of the restless spirit that puts the new in new-grass. He first fell in love with bluegrass during his West Virginia childhood, and he led the 1978–90 Colorado new-grass band Hot Rize that also included Pete Wernick (banjo, b. 1946), Charlie Sawtelle (bass ...
In 1996, the Californian singer Gillian Welch released her debut album, Revival. Her unassuming, folksy songs and plaintive, old-time singing could have come straight out of the Appalachians at any time in the last hundred years. With guitarist David Rawlings, Welch came to pinpoint and define a new style of folk music: the neo-traditional performer. Welch personified ...
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