Bluegrass Underground

Arts and Music Series

Taped deep within the subterranean amphitheater of The Caverns in Tennessee's majestic Cumberland Mountains, this "musical adventure" series features both long-established and emerging artists within a broad spectrum of genres to include roots-rock, jamband, r&b, soul, folk, Americana and bluegrass.

Conor Oberst "Whiskey Well"

4m 1s / TV-G

Hear a set from a progressive singer/songwriter who has sung with numerous bands, including the Monsters of Folk supergroup. His songs of insight, detail and political awareness have earned him a large and devoted following.

Rhonda Vincent & The Rage "Heartbreaker's Alibi"

3m 6s / TV-G

Tune in for a performance by the “Queen of Bluegrass," who tours with her band, The Rage, earning accolades for her mastery of the progressive chord structures and multi-range, fast-paced vocals intrinsic to bluegrass.

Parker Millsap "Hands Up"

2m 52s / TV-G

Enjoy a performance by a singer-songwriter deemed one of Nashville’s hottest new country roots artists. Winner of Americana’s 2016 Album of the Year, Millsap performs on guitar, harmonica and slide guitar.

Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives "Old Mexico"

2m 42s / TV-G

Don’t miss this performance by the five-time Grammy-winner. With a bio that boasts stints with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash, Stuart is unsurpassed as a rhinestone showman and folk philosopher who has proudly remained to country.

Kasey Chambers "I Ain't No Little Girl"

5m 16s / TV-G

Tune in for a set from a singer-songwriter who traveled from the Land Down Under to Tennessee’s “Show Down Under.” From a well-known producing/performing musical family, Chambers is one of Australia's most successful and celebrated country artists.

Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out "Brown County Red"

2m 35s / TV-G

Hear a Georgia-born, internationally acclaimed band that defines the drive and precision of top shelf bluegrass. Celebrating their 25th anniversary, the group is a top pick on Amazon.com and a favorite of discerning bluegrass fans everywhere.

Chris Robinson Brotherhood "Good to Know"

5m 3s / TV-G

Listen to the group variously described as blues-rock, jamband and acid-Americana. Rolling Stone described their sound as “electrifying…boast[ing] a vintage rock vibe that’s at once quirky, trippy, soulful and downright magnetic.”

The Mavericks "Dance in the Moonlight"

6m 47s / TV-G

Enjoy the irresistible Cuban groove of the genre-leaping Grammy-winners fronted by the transcendent vocals of Raul Malo. The band has won awards from the Academy of Country Music, the Country Music Association and the Americana Music Association.

Jason & The Scorchers

3m 11s / TV-G

Led by Illinois native Jason Ringenberg, the Scorchers crashed out of Nashville and began smashing down the walls between genres with their own brawling brand of country-rock almost 35 years ago. As trailblazers for the cowpunk and alt-rock bands that would follow, Jason and the Scorchers have received the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.

St. Paul & the Broken Bones

6m 10s / TV-PG

Seemingly born fully formed in 2012, this Birmingham, Alabama Soul band’s career hit the ground as big and strong as their sweat-soaked, seven-piece Soul-Funk sound, earning major raves from major media, including Paste magazine, Garden and Gun, Southern Living, Rolling Stone and NPR.

Sierra Hull

5m 26s / TV-G

The Tennessee mandolin prodigy is all grown up and comes to Bluegrass Underground fresh from releasing her third solo album, the jaw-dropping, Bela Fleck-produced Weighted Mind. Of her, Fleck notes, “She plays the mandolin with a degree of refined elegance and freedom that few have achieved Her vocals and songwriting matured to the level of her virtuosity.”

Drivin’ N Cryin’

4m 26s / TV-G

Rolling Stone magazine explained veteran rockers DNC thusly, “Crunching hard rock is the Drivin’ part. Brittle country-ish balladry the Cryin’” Hailing from Atlanta, GA, Kevn Kinney and Drivin’ N Cryin’ have for 30 years offered die-hard fans a blend that arcs from intimate acoustic folk to soaring (and searing) guitar-laden southern rock.

Lone Bellow

6m 42s / TV-G

As his wife recovered from an accident that nearly paralyzed her, The Lone Bellow was born as a creative outlet for singer Zach Williams. Now a thriving part of Brooklyn’s Americana scene, The Lone Bellow Roots-folk-rock trio was recently nominated for Americana Duo/Group Of The Year.

The Cox Family

5m 27s / TV-G

One of the finest vocal trios in bluegrass and trad-country ever to call the state of Louisiana home, Suzanne, Evelyn and Sidney Cox returned to the national music scene a few months ago with their first album in almost 20 years, the critically-acclaimed Gone Like the Cotton.

JJ Grey & MoFro

4m 41s / TV-G

Described as a mash-up of jam band, blues, funk, soul, and southern rock, JJ Grey’s songs reflect the steaming region around Jacksonville, Fl. where he was raised. Understandably Grey’s influences includes such widely diverse Southern artists as country icon Jim Reeves, rock greats Lynyrd Skynyrd and Memphis soul man Otis Redding, as well as NYC hip hop legends Run-D.M.C. The “North Florida sage

Hurray For The Riff Raff

4m 39s / TV-G

Raised in the Bronx by her aunt Nereida, Puerto Rican Alynda Lee Segarra developed her eye for life as a young teenage punk hopping freight trains across America before settling in sultry New Orleans. As NPR rightly put it, "Segarra's morning-after alto might be the least showy great voice to hit the national scene."

Frank Solivan

3m 31s / TV-G

Leaving behind the cold climes of Alaska for the Bluegrass hotbed of Washington, D.C., Frank Solivan (also a Master Chef) quickly earned a reputation as a monster mandolinist and turned his band, Dirty Kitchen, into the D.C-area’s hottest acoustic act. With a sturdy matrix of bluegrass veined with jazz, blues, country and jam band, FS & DK delivers on their main rule: “No filler.”

The Suffers

3m 50s / TV-G

Relative newcomers, The Suffers will tell you that they are just as much influenced by classic rock 'n' roll, country, Latin and southern hip hop as they are by the stax/volt or Muscle Shoals era. Fresh out of Houston and fronted by the massive-voiced singer Kam Franklin, this 10-piece, 3rd Coast Soul band’s incandescent show has earned them spots on David Letterman’s Late Show and NPR.

Dave Rawlings Machine

4m 6s / TV-G

Yet another incredible Berklee College of Music alum, David Todd Rawlings is a professional guitarist-singer-songwriter perhaps best-known as the longtime performing partner of Gillian Welch. The DR Machine is Rawlings and Welch buoyed by Punch Brothers bassist Paul Kowert, violinist Brittany Haas, and former Old Crow Medicine Show guitarist Willie Watson.

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