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Bluegrass Underground

Season 9 2019
TV-G

  • 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z on PBS
  • 30m
  • 6h (12 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
A musical adventure series emanating from The Caverns in Tennessee's majestic Cumberland Mountains. Celebrating the diversity of America’s musical heritage with artists from the full spectrum of genres: Bluegrass, yes but also Americana, Country, Soul, Blues, Rock N Roll, Gospel, Folk, and everything between.

12 episodes

Season Premiere

2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

9x01 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Season Premiere

9x01 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

  • 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z30m

Truly iconic, profoundly influential, and a catalyst for an entire movement in country rock and American roots music, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, continues to add to their legendary status. With multi-platinum and gold records, strings of Top 10 hits, multiple Grammy, IBMA, CMA Awards, the band's accolades continue to accumulate.

2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

9x02 Amanda Shires

9x02 Amanda Shires

  • 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z30m

Singer-songwriter and violinist, road warrior, and recently minted MFA in creative writing, Amanda Shires cuts her own genre blended roots-rock with fierce-sweet violin, soaring vocals and critically acclaimed compositions. Shires was Americana’s 2017 Emerging Artist of the Year and won for Best Americana Album with husband Jason Isbell’s band, The 400 Unit.

2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

9x03 Keb' Mo'

9x03 Keb' Mo'

  • 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z30m

Nashville-based singer-songwriting bluesman and four-time Grammy Award winner, Keb’ Mo’ has been described as "a living link to the seminal Delta blues that traveled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America." A musical force defying typical genre labels, Mo’s post-modern blues style harkens many eras and genres, including folk, rock, jazz, pop and country.

2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

9x04 Josh Ritter

9x04 Josh Ritter

  • 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z30m

Ritter is a vocalist, musician, New York Times best-selling author, painter, and consummate live performer - a true artist. Best known for his distinctive Americana style and narrative lyrics, Josh Ritter is — two decades into a storied career — unafraid of growing, changing and constantly challenging then estimable, earlier versions of himself. Josh Ritter, it seems, may just be getting started.

2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

9x05 Lucero

9x05 Lucero

  • 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z30m

Lucero’s first gig in Memphis was for a crowd of six. But for a band with a 20-year string of successes and aural iterations, who carried the alt-country torch back in the '90s and helped pave the way for “Americana,” Lucero have returned to what inspired them in the first place. They tour behind a streamlined sound honoring their seminal southern and rock influences.

2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

9x06 Brothers Osborne

9x06 Brothers Osborne

  • 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z30m

Two talented boys from a working class Maryland family, the Brothers Osborne bring us a “twang-and-crunch,” equal parts country and rock into one of the freshest, most identifiable sounds to come out of Nashville in recent years. Five-time Grammy nominees, The Brothers Osborne reign as back-to-back ACM Vocal Duo of the Year Awards as well as the two-time CMA Vocal Duo of the Year.

2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

9x07 Gregory Alan Isakov

9x07 Gregory Alan Isakov

  • 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z30m

Isakov strikes a balance of space and instrumentation with precise arrangements and poignant lyrics.

2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

9x08 Steve Earle and the Dukes

9x08 Steve Earle and the Dukes

  • 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z30m

Producer, author, actor and singer-songwriter Steve Earle is master musician and writer's writer.

2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

9x09 Lauren Morrow

9x09 Lauren Morrow

  • 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z30m

Lauren Morrow showcases her broad vocal range and sweet Georgia drawl in her unique songs.

2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

9x10 Glen Hansard

9x10 Glen Hansard

  • 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z30m

Glen Hansard brings the heart and soul of the Irish backed by a powerful Folk-Rock horn band.

2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

9x11 The Devil Makes Three

9x11 The Devil Makes Three

  • 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z30m

The trio evokes songs from some bygone era, rooted in folk, delta blues, and reckless rock.

Season Finale

2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

9x12 Mandy Barnett

Season Finale

9x12 Mandy Barnett

  • 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z30m

Mandy Barnett has a keen interpretative sense and a powerful style rooted in Country and Pop.

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