Abigail Washburn
City Of Refuge

There’s a tune on Abigail Washburn’s debut that I’ve kept returning to since I first heard it. Called “Backstep Cindy / Purple Bamboo”, it’s an old-ti...

Born in Illinois, educated in Minnesota, now living in Tennessee via time spent in Vermont and China, it should come as no surprise that Washburn soun...

This is Ms Washburn?s third solo effort and she really has hit the mark with 11 songs that have a haunting and soulful resonance. She pkays banjo in t...

A banjo-playing, singer/songwriter based in Nashville can easily be typecast as a honky-tonk, whisky drinker, mourning the pastoral past. Abigail Wash...

A member of all-women banjo and traditional music group Uncle Earl (they call themselves, rather distressingly, the g’Earls), Abigail Washburn is marr...

Clued-in folk fans know this Nashville banjo whiz from her old band Uncle Earl (or perhaps from her marriage to bluegrass renegade Béla Fleck). Washbu...