Southern Rail

Say the word "bluegrass" and the image in the minds of many will be Southern farmland and Appalachian hollows, but the fact is that there are hotbeds of bluegrass music all over the U.S., including outposts far north of the Mason-Dixon line. From their beginnings in the late '70s, and despite what might be presumed by their name, Southern Rail were a mainstay of the Boston bluegrass scene and were respected as one of the most consistently solid, traditionally oriented bands on the national scene. Formed in 1979, the continuing presence in the band, both artistically and in b...