Beachbilly Bluegrass
The Green Blossom String Band rides the wave of folk revivalism The Green Blossom String Band, shown rehearsing for Dirty Hippie Radio, plays Saint Rock Dec. 23. Left to right, Caleb Caswell-Levy, Dan Geier, Ben and Alex Tauber. Photo by Jeff Vincent Folk is the foundation of all spoken word music (music with song). It is the most malleable form of music, capable of adapting any variation – from Celtic jig to brazen punk, Andean folklorico to whiskey-drinkin’ cowboy… Even blues is a type of folk music, written by the folks going through the shit. Perhaps it’s the intrinsically unbound, unfettered nature of folk which makes it so irresistible to musicians and music lovers alike. In case you’ve been caught unawares, a gradually blooming wave of folk revivalism has been sweeping the great musical plains. It’s not necessarily a purist or fundamentalist movement, and, to be sure, often manifests stylistic fusions, sometimes generating whole new genres or subgenres. Some bands indeed hug onto the more orthodox country or bluegrass sound, but many have injected their own daring flare. Some have become known as Rockabilly, or Psychobilly… But, what on earth is Beachbilly? Well, it doesn’t…
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