Jubal’s Kin
Jubal’s Kin • The distinctively spare sound is grounded in a love for what can only be called the pure and real, at once embracing both a strong roots tradition and yet creating a sound all their own – dubbed as "Appalachia-infused Cosmic Americana." At live shows or in the studio, a seemingly new subgenre is created, their songs displaying raw emotion – vulnerable and unassuming – with handcrafted spins that creak and stomp like a wooden dance... Read More
Gailanne Amundsen
Gailanne Amundsen • The distinctively spare sound is grounded in a love for what can only be called the pure and real, at once embracing both a strong roots tradition and yet creating a sound all their own – dubbed as "Appalachia-infused Cosmic Americana." At live shows or in the studio, a seemingly new subgenre is created, their songs displaying raw emotion – vulnerable and unassuming – with handcrafted spins that creak and stomp like a wooden dance... Read More
The Boxcars
The Boxcars • Adam Steffey, Ron Stewart, John R. Bowman, Keith Garrett and Harold Nixon make up what will surely soon be one of the top headliners in bluegrass and beyond. With collective stints with Alison Krauss & Union Station, J.D. Crowe & The New South, Blue Moon Rising, The Isaacs and most recently The Dan Tyminski Band, this quintet starts out with an impressive rap sheet. Fronting the band are two faces fairly well known in bluegrass circles,... Read More
Jim Van Cleve
Jim Van Cleve • Jim Van Cleve is a top-shelf musician in THE band that is taking the acoustic scene by storm, MOUNTAIN HEART. In addition to his extensive live performance work, he is also a full time session musician, and record producer in Nashville, Tennessee "The last couple of years have been a whirlwind of success for Jim’s career. His debut solo project, "NO APOLOGIES" was nominated for a GRAMMY in the "Best Country Instrumental"... Read More
Sierra Hull
Sierra Hull • Teenage mandolin phenomenon Sierra Hull began playing as an eight-year old prodigy, and has quickly become one of bluegrass music’s youngest favorites. The winner of numerous mandolin and guitar championships, Sierra was a featured performer on the Great High Mountain Tour, which included an all-star bluegrass lineup performing songs from the soundtracks of the hit movies O Brother Where Art Thou and Cold Mountain. A seasoned performer, she has appeared... Read More
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Alison Krauss & Union Station • CLICK HERE for Complete Profile of Paper Airplane • Alison Krauss has achieved more career milestones than most people do in their lifetime. To date, she has earned 26 Grammy Awards, multiple Country Music Association Awards and International Bluegrass Music Awards and countless others. Alison is also recognized as an acclaimed record producer (Nickel Creek, The Cox Family, Alan Jackson) and has contributed as an instrumentalist or vocalist... Read More
Julie Lee
Julie Lee • Just when you think you can label Julie Lee into one category or genre, you hear something different. Lee is a collage, a real scrapbook of various traditional American styles. In her songwriting, as well as her work as a visual artist, Julie takes bits and pieces from each of her myriad influences to make something of her own that is both old and new. Though a Maryland native, Lee has lived in Nashville, TN for 14 years and travelled and performed extensively... Read More
A Letter To Dan Tyminski, August 17th, 2009
I’m not much into hero worship because people are people. And while they may often do heroic things, very few people are “a hero” all the time while alive, if they are human. We are all struggling each in our own way, almost everyone is heroic sometimes, and no one person is really fundamentally better than another person. That caveat aside, I saw The Dan Tyminski Band at the Carter Family Fold recently, and were I prone to hero worship I could probably go for those... Read More
Alison Krauss & Union Station • “Paper Airplane”
Alison Krauss & Union Station • “Paper Airplane” Written by Robert Lee Castleman I’ve put it all behind me, nothing left to do or doubt, Some may say. But every silver lining, always seems to have a cloud, That comes my way. Anticipated pleasure, or unexpected pain, No choice I feel. Love is hard to measure, hidden in the rain, That’s why you’ll find me . Here all alone and still wondering why, Waitin inside for the cold to get colder. And... Read More
Editorial • “What is AcoustiCana”
“What is AcoustiCana” • “The Acousticana Journal” is a publication, a forum and a means to support a musical art form. “AcoustiCana” is a term defined by fans and from a fan’s perspective. It is not a description or prescription developed by a music industry, record label, association, or collective of artists. What follows are simply our current hypotheses; our perspectives as fans of this music at this time. And hopefully this will... Read More
