It's nice when something that starts out as a hobby ends up becoming a line on your CV. In the process of transcribing and analyzing the music of Punch Brothers, I began to find a common thread running through a number of their songs. The common thread was the regular use of modulations to distantly related keys (especially chromatic mediants). While common in music by composers from the Romantic period, modulations to chromatic mediants are unusual in bluegrass, folk, and po