'Rolling Stone'-approved N.C. band Mipso finds a sense of place in traditional folk music

Posted Dec 25, 2017
Strings quartet Mipso was selected by Rolling Stone as one of the top 10 new country artists you need to know. "We've expanded our music vocabulary," says Mipso fiddle player Libby Rodenbough. It wasn't until college at UNC, when she met now bandmates Joseph Terrell, Jacob Sharp and Wood Robinson, that she began truly diving into vernacular music. (Charleston Post and Courier)

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