Reviews

  • 2025 YeeHaw Music Fest wrap-up

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    Justin Mason & Blue Night at the 2025 YeeHaw Music Festival (1/18/25) - photo © Bill Warren The 2025 edition of the YeeHaw Music Fest is now in the memory banks. Evans Media Source is growing this festival year over year. Newish

  • Songs Of The Carter Family – Pam Linton

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    Described on her website as "Hollywood Down Home," Pam Linton has pursued a career that brought her from her native St. Stephen, Minnesota, to singing in church, at local events, and eventually on local television. Midwestern entertainer Sherwin Linton took

  • Thursday at the 2025 YeeHaw Music Fest

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    Larry Stephenson Band at the 2025 YeeHaw Music Fest (1/16/25) - photo © Bill Warren Evans Media Source's second festival of the year has kicked off in fine style. YeeHaw Music Fest is held at the Okeechobee Agri-center in Okeechobee, Florida.

  • Sweet Forgiveness – The Church Sisters

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    The Church Sisters have released a new project, an EP entitled Sweet Forgiveness.  The fraternal twins grew up singing gospel music in southwest Virginia. Their latest release features a beautiful collection of six motivational hymns with tender harmonies that reflect their

  • Cambium – Full Cord

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    Michigan-based Full Cord has continually drawn audiences with their exciting blend of bluegrass alongside numerous other musical forms. Their third release, Cambium, from Dark Shadow Recording, not only demonstrates this further, but spotlights the band's lyrical originality as well. The opening track, Ghost of

  • Peaches and Apple Pies – Rita Bliss

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    According to the brief bio posted on her website, Rita Bliss is a folk musician from Rochester, New York who is now based in Austin, Texas. She shares delicate and delightful melodies spawned from old-time melodies, and her travels along

  • Memory Lane – Wilson Banjo Co

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    What began as a tool to promote high quality, hand built banjos has become an outlet for presenting lyrically captivating material. Wilson Banjo Co's release, Memory Lane, on Pinecastle Records contains a variety of themes from coal mining, murder, and heartbreak, among

  • 2025 Jekyll Island wrap up

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    Don Rigsby with Southern Legacy at the 2025 Jekyll Island Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren This year's Jekyll Island Bluegrass Festival was one for the books. It is not often that this old picture-taker is blown away by festival

  • Country Symphony – Pick & Howl

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    The Denver-based quintet that goes by the descriptive handle, Pick & Howl, makes a formidable impression courtesy of their new album, Country Symphony, a set of songs that find them firmly entrenched within today's populist and progressive bluegrass genre. Like