Kitchen Dwellers

Kitchen Dwellers is a Bozeman, Montana based band that plays contemporary bluegrass with rock and country influences and jam band dynamics. In fact, their songs often come across as country tunes played by a rock band who, by some quirk, has chosen to use the musical idioms of bluegrass to express themselves, occasionally straying into honky-tonk along the way. On their 2025 album Seven Devils, they were shifting gears mid-song on occasion, following a narrative arc, which gives their music some variety. By contrast, their earlier work is grounded more firmly (though not exclusively) in the bluegrass tradition. As is the case with jam bands, their songs feel open-ended most of the time, leaving room for musicians to take off as they please.