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Robbie Fulks, stalwart of the alt-country and roots-rock scene for a quarter-century, talks about his full-scale move into bluegrass for a new album.

MANCHESTER — Thursday music will be back at this year’s Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Festival, along with many familiar faces returning to perform at Hunter Park.

MANCHESTER — Thursday music will be back at this year’s Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Festival, along with many familiar faces returning to perform at Hunter Park.

Acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke was born in Athens, Georgia, but left town after a year and a half. Raised in 12 different states, he absorbed a variety of musical influences as a child, flirting with both violin and trombone, before abandoning Stravinsky for the guitar at age 11. After adding a love for the country-blues of Mississippi John Hurt to the music of John Phillip Sousa and Preston Epps, Kottke joined the Navy underage, to be underwater, and eventually lost some hearing shooting at lightbulbs in the Atlantic while serving on the USS Halfbeak, a diesel submarine.

Release Day Picks this week highlight new albums by Crazy Horse, boygenius, The New Pornographers, William Tyler, Steve Gunn & David Moore, The Hold Steady, London Brew, Mighty Poplar, and Scott McMicken.