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"You know that horrible feeling when you've just made a new friend in your 40's? And you're like - ugggghhh!! One more person to feel bad about not seeing." - Sarah Vowell "You know that horrible feeling when you've just made a new friend in your 40's? And you're like - ugggghhh!! One more person to feel bad about not seeing." - Sarah Vowell John ... (more)

When progressive bluegrass act the Punch Brothers stops in Washington tomorrow, it will be something of a musical homecoming for guitarist Chris Eldridge.

Early in the Austin City Limits taping last night, Punch Brothers frontman Chris Thile mentioned an episode of the landmark PBS program from 1990 featuring Strength in Numbers, a supergroup once composed of Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Mark O'Connor, Edgar Meyer, and Jerry Douglas.

Bluegrass can be a rather persnickety genre, adverse to change and content to stick with the same ol' sounds that have been passed down generations.

White features more rickety piano than rollicking guitar. The material touches, convincingly, on country and jazz as well as the White Stripes' old rock roar.