BELLOWS FALLS -- Before Gillian Welch or Iris DeMent or Nanci Griffith, there was Mary McCaslin. Her rich, pure voice can fill a room, backed only by her open-D-tuned guitar. It’s a sound a generation ...

SANTA CRUZ — The Rotary Club of Freedom has assembled a group of local musicians to pay tribute to a beloved once-local folk singer who died last year while also raising funds for the victims of March ...

Mary McCaslin, a pure-voiced folk singer who sang plaintive laments for the fading Old West, reimagined pop and rock classics as mountain ballads and was an innovator of open tunings on the guitar, ...

A songwriter in her own right, she was known for renditions of pop and rock songs, “Pinball Wizard” among them, that made them sound like mountain ballads. By Penelope Green Mary McCaslin, a ...