Doug & Telisha Williams

Fresh voices of Appalachia

by James M. Manheim

posted 6/1/2012

The country genre has its own classical music: bluegrass, with its acoustic rural string band raised to startling virtuoso heights. But as the classic barroom country ensemble, with its electric guitar, steel guitar, and small, metronomic drum set, recedes into the past, various artists have taken it, as well, and begun to purify it and elaborate on it. The

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