UPDATE 1/14/21 1:33 p.m.: Three events tied to UC Santa Barbara’s Arts & Lectures series were rescheduled , and the Punch Brothers’ January 18 show will now be on Tuesday, April 5, at 8 p.m. at Campbell Hall.
ORIGINAL STORY: Every music group touring in 2022 faces an existential question: How do we reconnect with the audience and each other? For the Punch Brothers, the answer has come through a new recording that finds them returning to their roots in bluegrass.
The new Punch Brothers album, Hell on Church Street, drops on Friday, January 14. It’s a track-by-track cover of an entire 1983 album, Church Street Blues, by the great bluegrass guitarist Tony Rice, who died in 2020.