WTJU May 1st, 2021 | By WTJU
Stash Wyslouch will stop by Folk & Beyond Thursday afternoon, May 6, at 4 (edt) to go track by track through his new album,
Stash Wyslouch Plays and Sings Bluegrass Vol. II. You can listen locally at 91.1 FM, streaming at wtju.net, or by asking your smart speaker to “Play WTJU.”
Stash Wyslouch is a Bluegrass guitarist known for his “extreme flavor of avant-garde freneticism” (Music Connection Magazine Jan 2021, Andy Kaufmann)
A departure from his past 3 albums of purely original music, “Plays and Sings Bluegrass Vol. II” is a collection of re-imagined Bluegrass standards.
Notable cuts off “Plays and Sings Bluegrass Vol. II” include Jimmy Martin’s “My Walking Shoes” and Bill Monroe’s “Will you be Loving Another Man?” which make way for dynamic unisons, whiplash-inducing tempo changes and sludge-metal-like riffage.
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David McClister
When writers, like myself, criticize Music Row’s stewardship of country music, it’s usually with the best interests of artists like Brit Taylor in mind. It’s never been about “pop” country. It’s about a business model that tells pure hearts and great voices to adapt or die, to fake it until they make it - and thereafter. The title of Taylor’s debut album
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