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East Nashville's J.P. Harris has been a train-hopper, a logger, a shepherd, a honky tonker and a historic home carpenter. Indeed he was getting up from this early morning interview to work on an old home. It's a mix that makes him the most interesting man in roots music. And now, he's turned his attention back to the music that first drew him into country, old-time fiddle and banjo tunes.
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The twangers may twang and the drummers may bang, but the grace of vintage country blues is timeless and always timely. And it’s been a good time of late…
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“I don't actually know if anyone can have as family-rooted a background in old time music as Viv can,” says Riley Calcagno from the Portland, OR home he’s…
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Jake Blount recalls a day in 2011 when he happened upon a restaurant venue during a city-based music festival in Washington DC and learned more than one…
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The first time Ketch Secor and Old Crow Medicine Show played at the Ryman Auditorium, it was early in the morning, a time when the room glows with a holy…