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The Buzz The Corduroy Road is the latest band lobbying to add its name to Athens, Georgia’s musical legacy. Begun as a duo by Drew Carman and Dylan Solise in 2006, the group expanded to a quartet in early 2009 and now includes John Cable on drums and Elijah Neesmith on upright bass. An aggressive [...]

If you like ambience as much as the sounds coming off the strings, check out these five essential music rooms in the South. The Purple Fiddle Thomas is a tiny town on the Blackwater River near West Virginia’s Monongahela recreation mecca, filled with epic mountain biking trails and enough backcountry to get lost for days. [...]

Top Musicians play guitars made in a Central Virginia basement.

Doc Watson is one of the last remaining icons of the original generation of tradi-tional folk and blue-grass. Coming from humble beginnings in the rural mountain country of Deep Gap, N.C., Watson lost his sight at an early age. But he did not let it deter him from setting the standard for flat-picking guitar. At [...]

By Eric Angevine   The acoustic blues duo Cephas & Wiggins perform all over the country, mixing Delta blues from Mississippi with the local variant known as country blues, or the Piedmont style. They met in Washington, D.C. in 1977, played together in the Big Chief Ellis band, and have released more than a dozen [...]