CD Review Paper Airplane - Alison Krauss and Union Station

"Paper Airplane"
"Dust Bowl Children"
"Lie Awake"
"Lay My Burdens Down"
"My Love Follows You Where You Go”
"Dimming of the Day"
"On the Outside Looking In"
"Miles to Go"
"Sinking Stone"
"Bonita and Bill Butler"
"My Opening Farwell"

I cannot remember whether the exact year was 1984 or

Uncommon Ground: HVBA Showcase June 19, 2012

Excitement! Energy! Virtuosity! Versatility! Wildness! FUN!

Uncommon Ground once again showed why it is one of the most incredibly skilled groups around when it performed recently at Christ Church in Poughkeepsie to an enthusiastic and appreciative audience that couldn’t get

CD Review: Flight Of The Phoenix - The Yankee Rebels

My first encounter with the Yankee Rebels was back in the early 1970's at a jamboree at O'Lunney's bar and restaurant on 2nd Avenue. The Arm Bros., from Poughkeepsie, had ventured into NYC and were slotted to follow the Yankee Rebels. As I recall, the Yankee Rebels were the number one working bluegrass band in the city at the time. Sometime in the late 1980's the Yankee Rebels stopped performing, and only started up again 

Lonesome River Band - Chronology Volume One

Ed. Note:  The Lonesome River Band will be in Poughkeepsie on November 17 and is presented by the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association.

The Lonesome River Band is celebrating their 30th anniversary and to mark the occasion, has issued a special 30th anniversary retrospective collection. Chronology is comprised of twenty-four songs recorded to be released