Back in the dim recesses of the '60s, Peter Rowan moved from his native Massachusetts to Nashville and landed a coveted spot with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, playing guitar, blending his high-tenor voice into the Boys' close harmonies, and even writing future classics ("Walls of Time") with the father of bluegrass. Rowan's subsequent career roamed far afield. Along with Richard Greene and David Grisman he helped launch the progressive newgrass movement, dabbled in a variety of eclectic progressive-rock projects, rode with the cosmic cowboy revival (writing about the notorious "Panama Red"), and explored such rootsy tangents as Tex-Mex and reggae. But Rowan periodically always returned to pure bluegrass, and he's done so again with a... More >>>