Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th Street Ambient four from the album session

four from the album session

is a dark and introspective work that marked the band's final studio effort with vocalist Layne Staley

into a more commercial

focusing on the social-political conditions of mid-1970s Britain

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th Street Ambient four from the album session2024 release. Not a lot of people talk about the true origins of bluegrass music," says Swamp Dogg, "but it came from Black people. The banjo, the washtub, all that stuff started with African Americans. We were playing it before it even had a name." Blackgrass, Swamp Dogg's remarkable new album, is no history lesson, though. Produced by Ryan Olson (Bon Iver, Polia) and recorded with an all star band including Noam Pikelny, Sierra Hull, Jerry Douglas,