Laborious Soil traces the historical past and evolution of American Roots music and examines its social and cultural relevance within the twenty first century. Nowhere is America's cultural evolution and variety as palpable as within the music of the folks. Folks music or alternately roots music, a collective time period encompassing a wide range of musical kinds from Bluegrass, to Blues and from Nation to Gospel. At this time a wild and vibrant subculture of musicians has begun to infuse these musical kinds with the sounds of the twenty first century protecting the evolution of American Roots music that's not solely heard within the land of Lincoln however throughout the globe. To many it has not solely change into the soundtrack to their lives it has change into a lifestyle.