Quote of the month

Songs of our grandfathers isn’t just nostalgia, heritage, lineage, legacy- and canon-building. It’s not just carrying on tradition for tradition’s sake. It’s effortlessly and wholly bluegrass because it innovates, it complicates, and it challenges its listeners to think outside of preconceived notions of what bluegrass, string band, and old-time music are. Because that’s exactly what bluegrass’s grandfathers, grandmothers, and grandparents were doing as they invented this music.

Justin Hiltner, in his interview with Zoe and Cloyd for The Bluegrass Situation, 'Zoe and Cloyd made a traditional album - but not the way you think'