closethe black twig pickers take it to the dance floor on 'whompyjawed', offering long-form, highly rhythmic and deeply layered takes on traditional fiddle and banjo music. joined by some of the ...

Black Twig Pickers are a quartet from Virginia who play old-timey Appalachian music, an exuberant blast of banjo, fiddle and hoedown rhythms. Spirited antiquarianism prevails, though the songs ...

All of which is to say that even as Gunn’s solo career takes off and he’s about to head out on tour with Wilco, it’s no surprise that he’s releasing yet another collaborative one-off, this time with ...

You've played improvised and experimental music for some years. How did you come to join the Black Twig Pickers? Mike (Gangloff) is a fiddler and banjo player who was one of the founding members ...

At a venue in Charlottesville, Virginia, Mike Gangloff—a multi-instrumentalist best known for leading the noisy rock ensemble Pelt and more recently the old-time Black Twig Pickers—fiddled his ...

“Seasonal Hire” is a hook-up with Virginia’s reliably ornery Black Twig Pickers, that finds a common ground we might usefully term Psychedelic Appalachian. Gunn has collaborated with sundry ...

Multi-instrumentalist Nathan Bowles (of Black Twig Pickers, Spiral Joy Band, and a frequent collaborator of Steve Gunn) returned today with his first album as a trio, Plainly Mistaken (on Paradise ...

In the extensive liner notes to their second album, the Black Twig Pickers wisely avoid any of these terms. The music is simply music, as much a part of the here-and-now as anything else in ...

As you’ll see there from the Tumblr’s subtitle, this marvellous Steve Gunn/Black Twig Pickers session is the first in a series of “collaborative recordings from Black Dirt Studio”; Black ...