The Colwell Brothers

Music fans usually associate the Motor City with soul music; vintage electric blues; or the heavy rock of MC5, Ted Nugent, and others -- in fact, anything but bluegrass. The brothers Steve, Paul, and Ralph Colwell were in fact all natives of Detroit, born in a mad jumble of diapers, sleepless nights, and wailing between 1933 and 1937; meaning that the already rich Detroit music scene can also brag of at least a small load of vintage bluegrass brother-group talent. But this was a family that skipped around the country quite a bit, relocating to both Massachusetts and eventually...