Trail Mix – Zaq Suarez
Regrettably, I hopped on the Zaq Suarez train a bit late.I fell in love with the former Asheville based songwriter's last band, The Hermit Kings, just befo...
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Trail Mix – March 2019
When looking back at all the stories I have written for this magazine, perhaps the most memorable, and most powerful, was the one I wrote about Leo Welch.I...
Sonic Bloom: 5 Acts to Catch in the Blue Ridge This Spring
Emerge from the season of hibernation and check out these bands bringing fresh sounds to the South.Blackberry SmokeShows: March 14-15 at the Opera Hous...
On The Road With The Steel Woods & Ticket Giveaway!
The Southern rock tradition is alive and well.Carrying on in the tradition of Southern musical heroes Lynyrd Skynyrd and The ...
Trail Mix: Amy McCarley
On the morning of April 14th, 1981, my third grade classmates and I packed on to buses and headed to the dry lake bed that was home to the flight line at Edwar...
Trail Mix: New Albums and Rhiannon Giddens
New Albums by the musicians you want to listen to.
Rhiannon Giddens Returns with New Collaboration, Our Native Daughters
Rhiannon Giddens first emerged in the...
Trail Mix – February 2019
Trail Mix smacks that polar vortex right in the kisser with brand new tunes from Ryan Bingham, Darlingside, Dale Watson, Liz Brasher, Galactic, The Way Down Wanderers, and many more! ...
Trail Mix: The Dustbowl Revival at January Jams + Ticket Giveaway!
One might think that The State Theater of Virginia would be in one of the metropolitan hubs on the eastern side of the state.
Nope. Instead, one would have to ...
Trail Mix: Maya De Vitry – Song Premiere
Acoustic trio The Stray Birds have long been a favorite of mine.
I first heard of the band on my one visit to IBMA, in 2013, and the band turned up on Trail Mi...
Trail Mix – Andrew Alli
I first learned of Andrew Alli's music late last summer.
Andrew and his musical compadre, Josh Small, were a part of a contingent of musicians from Virginia wh...
Trail Mix – January 2019
The Trail Mix resolution for 2019 is pretty simple; great music, every month, for the next twelve months.Trail Mix is diving into the the new year with Old ...
Trail Mix – Wilderado
The last blog post of 2018 features Max Rainer, of Wilderado, who chats up the band's new EP....
Trail Mix – Meadow Mountain
Bluegrass upstarts Meadow Mountain swings by the Trail Mix blog to chat up their new record....
Trail Mix – The Infamous Stringdusters
Though The Infamous Stringdusters formed over a decade ago on the East Coast, I believe the heart of the band beats in the mountains of Colorado.Three Duste...
Trail Mix – December 2018
Brand new tracks from Donna The Buffalo, J.D. McPherson, Ryley Walker, Jamie Lin Wilson, The Infamous Stringdusters, and many more on 2018's final edition of Trail Mix....