March 2019 – The Brewgrass Chronicle

Colebrook Road Coming Home To Celebrate Release of New Album

March 27, 2019 BGchronicle Events

The new album is officially out on May 3, but the band is celebrating early with a string of album release shows that comes through Harrisburg Saturday night. The Flat Wheels will open that night upstairs at the Federal Taphouse on Second Street.

“Tim O’Brien Band” LP is a 13-song Bluegrass Tour-de-Force

March 26, 2019 BGchronicle Reviews

“Tim O’Brien Band,” his first album with his current band, might just be his finest effort since Red on Blonde, his iconic 1996 bluegrass tribute to Bob Dylan’s music.

OK We’ll Say It: We Really, Really like Mile Twelve’s new album

March 25, 2019 BGchronicle Reviews

When you review an album, you need to listen to it a number of times. So it is not necessarily unusual that we’ve listened to Mile Twelve’s upcoming release, “City on a Hill,” enough in the past few weeks that we can sing along to all the songs. But we’ve listened to this one far more than we do for most reviews. Yes, because it is that good, though that was not exactly our motivation.[…]

Five Great Festivals for Tourists Visiting the Metropolitan Northeast Corridor

March 19, 2019 BGchronicle Commentary, Festivals

EDITOR’S NOTE: This travel guide to festivals in the Middle Atlantic States was written with British bluegrass fans in mind who might want a sidetrip to experience American bluegrass in a festival setting while visiting the cities in the NYC-Philly-D.C. corridor. It is not inclusive. There are a plethora of other fine festivals in the region. We looked for larger festivals with artists with names that a fan from across the pond would recognize. I[…]

Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen Turn Up the Heat With Latest Album

March 18, 2019 BGchronicle Reviews

If you were fortunate enough to see Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen live in 2018, chances are a lot of the songs on the band’s recent release, “If You Can’t Stand the Heat,” might sound a little familiar. There is a good reason for that. The band recorded the album, released in January of this year, last March. A lot of the songs on it have been on FSDK’s set lists since then. Of course[…]

Mile Twelve is taking its fine Beantown bluegrass worldwide

March 15, 2019 BGchronicle Interviews, Profiles

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in The British Bluegrass News. The UK tour mentioned in the story actually got underway yesterday. It’s early January, and Bronwyn Keith-Hynes is enjoying a brief break in what has been a very busy schedule for her and her Mile Twelve bandmates when we catch up with her for a little chat about their plan for the new year. The band toured relentlessly in 2018, playing more than 100[…]