Crooked Still's five musicians know how to make traditional songs sound new again, in the processcreatinga genre fusion in which alternative folk blends with bluegrass and the sounds of string bands.
Undeterred, social entrepreneurs will drive access to clean water, education, electricity and the internet for tens of millions of people living in poverty in 2013, continuing aprocess of both lifting people out of poverty and creatingnew customers for an infinite number of consumer goods.