Posts by Dave Goodwich

When we published the first iteration of this article in 2019, Billy Strings was on the cusp of becoming a household name, having recently graduated to headlining slots at first-rate bluegrass festivals and selling out clubs and theaters across the country. It’s no surprise then, given his generational songwriting and guitar pickin’ abilities, that the […]

Phish closed out an impressive two-night stand at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD on Sunday evening (7/31) with a pair of inspiring sets that mixed a healthy dose of older material along with some more recent compositions and was littered with a surplus of exploratory instrumental odysseys that oozed psychedelia, proving that, even after […]

Dead & Company stopped by Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia this past Sunday, July 10th, to deliver a pair of standout sets that focused primarily on relatively early-era material from the Grateful Dead’s expansive catalog. Marking only their second trip to the cavernous home of the Philadelphia Phillies since their 2015 formation – the group […]

Billy Strings was joined by Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio on Wednesday night at New York’s relatively-new rooftop venue, Pier 17, to help close out a rousing performance with a diverse selection of songs that mixed Strings’ original material with some bluegrass standards as well as a pair of Phish classics. Prior to Anastasio’s appearance, Strings […]

Since their formation in 2014, the Norwalk, CT-based jam-outfit Goose has never been able to rest on its collective laurels. Shortly after their debut, they joined forces with multi-instrumentalist Peter Anspach, a move that helped solidify their unique sound thanks to his uncanny Shohei Ohtani-esque two-way abilities on guitar and keyboards, and followed that up […]

When legendary singer-songwriter Peter Rowan was developing ideas for his next studio project in 2019, he turned to none other than country music legend Hank Williams, or rather his quixotic alter ego “Luke the Drifter” for inspiration. “When I left Nashville in 1990,” Rowan explains, “the only country music album I had, besides one Ernest […]

As the rest of civilization began to suddenly grind to a halt due to the pandemic-related lockdowns in 2020, the keyboard-toting virtuoso retreated to the familiar confines of his Woodstock, NY residence, with wife & kids in-tow, to hunker down and wait out what seemed to be the end of the world at that time […]

“Del Yeah!” Since 2008, that rallying cry of exaltation has been echoing around the picturesque hills of Cumberland, Maryland every Memorial Day weekend as thousands of live-music fans descend upon the cozy confines of the Allegany County Fairgrounds for four days of live music featuring some of the most talented bluegrass musicians in the world […]

Bruce Hornsby is a musical chameleon. Whether it’s pumping out chart-topping hits with his MTV-era cohorts The Range, collaborating with country music mainstays such as Ricky Skaggs and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band“, or scoring a grammy-winning instrumental track for the Olympics with jazz legend Branford Marsalis, the Williamsburg, VA native has never been content […]

It’s somewhat fitting that a band named after a Jack Kerouac poem release a “destination” album, rife with inspirational lyrics about legendary road trips and fallen comrades, which is exactly what beloved jamgrass pioneers Railroad Earth have done with their latest studio release, All For The Song. After suffering the tragic loss of founding member […]