Jazz Articles about Doyle Lawson

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver: The Hard Game of Love

by C. Michael Bailey
June 1, 2002

Tradgrass...

Using the politics of Be Bop as an analogy, if Nickel Creek are “beboppers" and the music they make sounds like “Chinese Music" then Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver are the “Moldy Figs." Lawson and his group have immersed themselves in white gospel music as of late to the point that the bluegrass community was beginning to worry that they had forsaken their bluegrass roots for salvation. The Hard Game of Love has a contemporary relationship temperament cast against its ...