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Grant Britt

Heartbreak Mountain Music

Heartbreak Mountain Music

If Steve Earle wore a dress, this is what he would sound like. Chelle Rose is Appalachian tuff. You can hear her hardscrabble raisin’ in her voice. There’s enough barbed wire twang in her voice to snap a fencepost in half should it be bold enough to try and

Blue Mountain's Dog Days

Blue Mountain's Dog Days

“Me and Laurie must have played every joint in Mississippi....anything to keep away from a real job,” says Dog Days founder/guitarist/vocalist Carrie Hudson. The result of all that joint jumpin' ended up being one of the most revered darlings of the Alt country scene in the

Tedeschi Trucks' Gospel Soul

Tedeschi Trucks' Gospel Soul

They call it Swamp Raga. Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi came up with that name for their home recording studio in Jacksonville, Florida, but it's a fitting label for their sound as well. Bolstered by analog technology, tube amps, and vintage recording gear, the Tedeschi Trucks Band has

Big Joe and the Dynaflos with Anson Funderburgh

Big Joe and the Dynaflos with Anson Funderburgh

In the beginning, there was the beat. Some possessed, it, some were possessed by it. The sound was unmistakable. The rhythm was alive -- a throbbing pulse that got under your skin, spreading through your body like a wave. Around these parts, they call it beach music. In its original

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats

He looks like Big Dam Band leader Reverend Peyton, dances like James Brown, and sings like a holy ghost revival preacher at a backwoods camp meeting. Nathaniel Rateliff and his band the Night Sweats lay it down hard and soulful, recalling the exuberance and bombast of great r&b

Gregg Allman - Live: Back to Macon GA

“Macon serves as the home of a great group of fellows that played and lived laughed and cried and created and worked out and arranged and adjusted things together for 45 years now,” Gregg Allman says, introducing his latest, Gregg Allman Live, Back to Macon, Ga. Macon's Grand

Bluegrass on the Blue Ridge: How North Carolina Inherited Bill Monroe’s Music

Bluegrass on the Blue Ridge: How North Carolina Inherited Bill Monroe’s Music

Once upon a time, around the middle of the 20th century, there was music in the mountains that run from Georgia up through the Carolinas, into Kentucky and beyond – a high and lonesome sound that reflected the lives of hard-working people who had to be strong to survive. It was