Americana, alt-country, bluegrass and folk are the difficult-to-categorize cousins of country music. The year's best songs in these genres (so far) tackle topics common to country -- heartbreak, ...

It seems as though country music's sub-genres are getting their much-deserved recognition as of late. Jason Isbell and the Secret Sisters, among others, received nods at the 2018 Grammy Awards. Tyler ...

Sid Griffin is an "alt" kind of guy: In the 1980s, he got in on the ground floor of the alt-country music scene in Los Angeles with his band the Long Ryders. Griffin is an eighth-generation Kentuckian ...

WILKES-BARRE — York native and Grammy-nominated alt-country/bluegrass musician Robbie Fulks will perform at 8 p.m. July 14 in the Chandelier Lobby of the F.M. Kirby Center, 71 Public Square. Fulks has ...

To say that Robbie Fulks has been one of the best singer-songwriters in American roots music over the last quarter-century would be correct, and maybe a little reductive, too; he’s one of the best ...

I won’t name names, but after listening to an album by a certain “alt-bluegrass” combo, a mini-epiphany alighted: Why listen to a half-assed, smug-hipster version of bluegrass when the real thing— ...

EASTON — Easton-based alt-country band the Street 45’s and singer-songwriter Rebecca Frazier are set to perform this weekend in the Avalon Theatre’s Stoltz Listening Room. In a show benefitting local ...

Dead Winter Carpenters are another group of virtuoso musicians toiling in bluegrass obscurity. But it shouldn’t–and won’t always–be that way? Though it would be easy to write this band off as another ...

Self-proclaimed world’s first alt-bluegrass act, The Coal Porters appear at The Boileroom, Guildford on Thursday March 15. Self-proclaimed world’s first alt-bluegrass act, The Coal Porters appear at ...

Sid Griffin is an "alt" kind of guy: In the 1980s, he got in on the ground floor of the alt-country music scene in Los Angeles with his band the Long Ryders. Griffin is an eighth-generation Kentuckian ...

Find the One is the latest album by the alt-bluegrass act The Coal Porters, led by Sid Griffin (far left). Sid Griffin is an "alt" kind of guy: In the 1980s, he got in on the ground floor of the ...