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In Old Fashioned #2, Craig and Amy spin new singles by the Po Ramblin’ Boys and Hogslop String Band, an a cappella number from Sad Daddy and Della Mae’s 2021 back-to-bluegrass album Family Reunion. Female bluegrass pioneer Alice Gerard is here, as produced by Hiss Golden Messenger’s M.C. Taylor. The voice of Sierra Ferrell is heart-stopping in a waltz-time ballad. And we get two sides of Vivian Leva and Reiley Calcagno, as a duo and a quartet in their old-time project The Onlies.

In Old Fashioned #3, we kick off with new music from East Nash Grass, the collective that holds down Monday evenings at Dee’s Lounge in Madison. The song comes from their 2021 self-titled debut. We also feature the band’s national champion fiddler Maddie Denton from her first solo debut Playin’ In This Town. Elsewise, you’ll hear music from the understated new duo project by Nashville’s Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert, Justin Moses duetting with Blue Highway’s Shawn Lane and vintage Black string band music from Walter Jacobs and Lonnie Carter. Stick around to the end to hear one of the greatest bluegrass harmony duets of the 1990s.

We've visited so far this year with the Infamous Stringdusters and Greensky Bluegrass about their journeys to top billing slots in the acoustic hybrid scene known as jamgrass. In Episode 202, Craig interviews Adam Aijala and Ben Kauffman, founding members of Yonder Mountain String Band, possibly the dominant jamming bluegrass band of the past two decades.

We were able to fit in quite a few legendary figures into Episode 4, because many of them are alive and well and releasing new music. Larry Sparks put out the album New Moon Over My Shoulder just before the pandemic, almost exactly 50 years after his first release. Danny Paisley and Dale Ann Bradley, both IBMA vocalists of the year, joined forces for the fine song “One By One.” And we’ve got Roland White collaborating with a young Jim Lauderdale on the lost then found tapes that gave us Jim’s earliest recorded album, which was newly released in recent years. Also here, thrilling vocals from High Fidelity and Appalachian Road Show.

Joan Osborne became a star on the strength of a controversial song and a Grammy-nominated major label debut album in 1995, but when you scan her catalog, it becomes quickly clear that she has one of the most powerful and nuanced voices in popular music. Her range and intimacy is quite clear on her new release Radio Waves, which compiles radio station performances and demos she found in her closets during the pandemic. It becomes a great vehicle to talk about her rich and varied vocal pursuits.

In another conversation with a prominent musical couple, Craig visits the home of Rachael and Dominic John Davis, artists who work together and apart, always enhancing the Nashville ideal with their attention to detail and timeless musicianship. He's most famous for years playing bass in various projects with his boyhood friend Jack White, but he's also an in-demand sideman and record producer. Rachael is a singer's singer, raised on folk and roots music in small town Michigan. She's released several fine albums on her own and collaborated with numerous other artists, notably her recent trio called the Sweet Water Warblers.

The April 1 release of Molly Tuttle’s first-ever full-length bluegrass album is a cause for celebration in the roots music community and an excuse for us to play a block of music telling the story of her new record Crooked Tree and her influences. Besides her Woody Guthrie-style frolic “Big Back Yard” and the haunting ballad “The River Knows,” we spin a track from Tuttle’s California mentor Laurie Lewis and her girlhood friend and bandmate AJ Lee, whose band Blue Summit actually includes Molly’s brother Sullivan Tuttle. Also new is “Once Again,” a lonesome honky tonk number sung masterfully by Del McCoury. And we feature some of the hippest string bands going – The High And Wides fro Baltimore, The Wooks from Lexington, KY and Nashville and Fireside Collective from western NC. Nokosee Fields stands out in our old-time music as a young star bringing a bit of his Native American culture to traditional music.