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David Grier has a fine bluegrass pedigree; during the 1960s and '70s, his father, Lamar, played banjo for both Bill Monroe and Hazel Dickens. However, as a member of bands such as Psychograss and Phillips, Grier, & Flinner, his own recent work has often tended toward the avant-garde. This

Recorded music can serve a variety of purposes. Sometimes it entertains, sometimes it empowers, and sometimes it merely documents the weaving of a particular thread in our cultural fabric. At various points in the last half-century these songs might have done all three. Of course, musically speaking, 1952 wasn'

Hollywood couldn't have written it more perfectly. Singer records a tune titled "The Last Song I'm Ever Gonna Sing" only to die soon afterward. In the case of Brownwood, Texas, native "Little" Joe Carson, it's no carefully-crafted dramatic device. The

In mid-September of 2001, about a week after that fateful day, I drove a couple hours north to Richmond, Virginia, having heard that Bob Rupe was planning to sit in for a few songs with the Silos at Poe's Pub. This was a rare occasion; Rupe and Silos

Produced by Tom Werman (who made records with rock bands from Motley Crue and Molly Hatchet to Cheap Trick and Blue Oyster Cult), 1986's Still Standing was a move toward the mainstream for Jason & the Scorchers. But in retrospect, it seems more like the beginning of the

In 1928, while picking cotton in eastern Oklahoma, Albert Brumley, consumed with the desire to escape from the cotton field, and with the strands of "The Prisoner's Song" running through his head, began writing his most famous gospel song, "I'll Fly Away"