Moose Gronholm's Profile

Let’s just put this right up front and center, Erin Coburn hasn’t been doing this for twenty years or 10 she’s not 30 or 20, she is 14 and is releasing her debut album Chaos before Conformity. Listening to this album age means nothing because the playing is stellar. You would have...

Pokey LaFarge is his name, and his music is a blend and vast array of musicality. In one song he can take you on a history lesson through music and, depending on the song, through our own American History as well. This was all born through his grandfathers and his own inquisitiveness. The...

Wonky Tonk is Jasmine Poole. She has been playing for about 7 years now. She has seemingly blended country and folk into a raucous good time, and a time to make you think. Her debut album is titled Stuff We Leave Behind. The players that she enlisted to be on the album is a who’s who of...

Hu-Town Holler is comprised of Patrick Kennedy (guitar and vocals), Chris Goins (guitar and vocals), and Elia Burkhart (upright bass and vocals). Life’s A Freak is their debut album some of the tracks were recorded on Pat’s shanty boat, and some were recorded out in Lawrenceburg, IN at...

The Urban Pioneers fronted my Liz Sloan and Jared McGovern are a freight train of a duo. Add in some upright bass and this train can really get raucous. Jared and Liz’s vocals and harmonies blend delightfully behind a punchy banjo and Liz’s break ya down fiddle. They have a new album...

The Bottle Rockets are a band from East St Louis/Southwestern Illinois basically Missouri. These guys and Uncle Tupelo all formed within 30-40 miles of each other and all played on each other’s albums as well. Bottle Rockets are Brian Henneman (guitar and vocals), Mark Ortmann (drums), John...

Andrew Hibbard has a seven song EP out. I have listened to it over and over again. From start to finish, and sure the guy sounds like Bob Dylan in all facets, but there is something Andrew has that separates him from that. He, Andrew, has put a lot of work into this.  The stories in his songs...

Matt Baumann aka Wolfcryer as some folks know him as, has just released a two song EP. Something simple, but with much to say about where his life is going these days. Matt has had quite the changes happen in the past year and half. With getting married and now his wife is set to have their first...

Peter Rowan on Sunday May 24th played the Columbia Community Center located in Cincinnati, Ohio and more specifically in the east end. There were about one hundred people seated and standing, drinking and laughing, and ultimately enjoying a truly amazing evening in such an intimate setting. ...

The Devil Makes Three are a power trio but without the drums. In the vain of power trio’s from the classic rock era, but the only difference is they traded those electrified instruments for acoustic ones. Pete Bernhard guitarist and singer, Lucia Turino Upright bass, and Cooper McBean banjo...

Cincinnati Folksinger and The Uptown Band are just two guys, a guitar and an upright bass. Michael Hoffman plays guitar and harmonica and sings, and good friend Elia Burkhart plays upright bass and also sings. They are releasing a much anticipated first album cleverly named Cincinnati Folksinger...

The Part-Time Gentlemen are three guys that met at an old timey jam a few years back. T.J. Male plays guitar and sings, Nick Sansone plays banjo and sings, and Jonathan Doll plays upright bass and sings as well. They enlisted some help from some top notch musicians from around the area to lend...