by Gabriel | Mar 15, 2025
Muddy Mountain West is a young bluegrass group based in Southern California. In May 2024, lead guitarist and vocalist Pierce Brunton started attending open mics in search of fellow musicians to start a bluegrass band. He quickly found guitar player turned banjoist...
by Gabriel | Mar 15, 2025
Skillet Licorice is the latest project from San Francisco Bay Area roots-music luminaries Elise Engelberg and Matt Knoth. Essentially a musical consortium, Matt & Elise are the core of an All-Star lineup featuring many of California’s hottest old-time...
by Christine | Jan 18, 2025
Early country music was a simple style with sparse instrumentation. The first commercial country music recordings in 1922 and 1923 by Eck Robertson and Fiddlin’ John Carson were either solo or duo recordings by fiddlers. Duo acts performing old-time country music were...