Rolling Stone music critic Christian Hoard reviews Elko, the new live double album by the jam band Railroad Earth. Unlike most jam bands with extended electric guitar solos, Railroad Earth is a ...

Wyatt Ellis is only 15, but the mandolin prodigy is making quite a splash on the bluegrass world and appearing alongside some pillars of the genre — Bobby Osborne, Sierra Hull, Sam Bush, Marty Stuart, ...

Railroad Earth, at WorkPlay Wednesday night; review gets three out of five stars. Look up Railroad Earth on Wikipedia, and you’ll see that this New Jersey sextet is defined as “progressive bluegrass,” ...

When Yonder Mountain String Band took the stage in the A&R Music Bar last night, it was constructed like a traditional five-piece bluegrass band with banjo, bass, mandolin, guitar, and fiddle. It was ...

Jeff Austin has been a touring musician for almost two decades, and he brought tasty mandolin licks together with a horn section in his 2015 album release, The Simple Truth. Iowa City’s music scene ...

It’s been a busy year for Sierra Hull who has spent much of it criss-crossing the country on tour. Now, with 2025 drawing to a close, she’s finally been able to catch her breath and look back at some ...

Since forming 20 years ago, John Reischman & The Jaybirds have honed their own style of bluegrass, wedding the genre’s characteristic rapid-fire solos and vocal harmonies with an old-time, almost ...