Bluegrass Music

There is a whole new batch of younger players/groups who bring a bit of "alternative" flavor to Bluegrass. Try Old Crow Medicine Show and The Hackensaw Boys.
 
The best Bill Monroe album I've heard was a 4 cd collection of his works from the earliest recordings through the '50's. It was at my public library. Don't forget to look there.

There are plenty of CD's available in resale shops and used book stores. They often stock more selection than retail. Rainy fall Saturdays can be really memorable when you luck into one you were looking for.
 
The most accessible bluegrass album that I have heard is "Nickel Creek" by the band of the same name. I'm no expert, but I like it.
 
Tony Rice!

There are a ton of Yonder Mountain String Band live concerts for free download at Archive.org (artist authorized free downloads!) .

This show is supposed to be pretty good:

http://www.archive.org/details/ymsb2007-10-18.m200.flac16

This one is recorded from the soundboard (look for SBD in the recording lineage - otherwise sound quality is hit or miss):

http://www.archive.org/details/ymsb2006-06-14.sbd.flac16

You can stream those from the web page, or download MP3's for your ipod, or download the FLAC version for a true bit for bit copy of the original recording CD master.
 
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Here's my reccomendations:thumbup:

Del Mc Coury - Del and the Boys - Probably one of the best bluegrass albums in the last 15 years
http://www.amazon.com/Del-Boys-McCo...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1216834146&sr=1-1


New Grass Revival - Barren County - This captures one of the great Newgrass bands at their peak.
http://www.amazon.com/Barren-County...d_bbs_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1216833954&sr=8-5

Norman Blake Old and New/Fields of November - Although this is not straight up Bluegrass if you like the Oh Brother Stuff this has lots of flatpicking, and old time. (Actually Oh Brother probably had as much to do with Old Timey as Bluegrass)

Bill Monroe - My Last Days On Earth - This is a boxed set but contains a reissue of one of his albums of all instrumentals as well as some of his classics.

Like some other folks said hard to go wrong with anything from Rhonda Vincent also. I've seen her lots and I predict she will be one of the all time greats in bluegrass. Not only does she have magnum vocal power her band it top notch and has to be seen live.

I've seen Yonder Mt. 3 or 4 times too. They are sort of similar to New Grass Revival but with the exception of Austin I'm not sure they are as hot instrumentally.

Tony Rice is great also. Check out his albums "Unit of Measure" and "Manzanita" both of these go between jazz and bluegrass but are highly fantastic. Also his album "Cold on the Shoulder" is great, as well as his second album with Peter Rowan. I saw Tony rice twice last year once with the Tony Rice Unit and then once with The Quartet with Peter Rowan both were amazing.

Peter Rowan is a former Bluegrass Boy who has gone on to carry Bills legacy also. Albums of Rowans I'd reccomend:

Old and In the Way- with Jerry Garcia on Banjo, David Grisman mandolin and Vassar Clements on fiddle.
New Moon Rising This is Rowan with the Nashville Bluegrass Band and vocally and instrumentally it is one of his top albums. I saw them play this live and it was amazing.
Peter Rowan with the Red Hot Pickers- Another great one.


That will get you started.:thumbup:
 
Just downloaded two live-concert recordings; David Bromberg and Sam Bush.
Neither traditional bluegrass musicians, very eclectic. Bromberg is likely more known for his great blues playing. His version of Statesboro blues" is a knockout. Still, he can pick a mean 'grass guitar and has a stellar band.

Bush is also very eclectic; if you hear mandolin on piece of recorded music it's likely him.
Played with everybody. His concert set included not only pretty straightforward renderings of traditional tunes, but Bob Marley and Eric Clapton... Recorded at some festival in Colorado.
 
mwerner said:
Just downloaded two live-concert recordings; David Bromberg and Sam Bush.
Neither traditional bluegrass musicians, very eclectic. Bromberg is likely more known for his great blues playing. His version of Statesboro blues" is a knockout. Still, he can pick a mean 'grass guitar and has a stellar band.
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Saw Bromberg twice last couple of years over at Jorma Kaukonens farm in Pomroy OH playing the blues. He was great.

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Look for Dan Tyminski's new CD Wheels. He has put together a new band, The Dan Tyminski Band. Dan lives in the next holler over from me, and he told me there's some bootleg CD's around from the band he played with in high school, Green Mountain Bluegrass. He released Carry Me Across The Mountain in 2000, but it's not as good as Wheels.

He plays with Alison Krauss and Union Station, and it was his lead vocals you heard when Clooney did Man of Constant Sorrow in the movie.

If there was some way I could get my library to you, I think you would like it. I grew up with bluegrass, and my 91 year old dad still has the recording he made of Maybelle Carter's first live performance. It was on an AM radio station out of Hazard KY.

We've got weeks worth of bluegrass music saved...but as dear ol dad says, pure bluegrass doesn't have singing in it. Hard core old school!

Google Galax Old Time Fiddler's Convention and check out some of the bands that play there. You can sometimes find links to some great bluegrass bands there.

Here's a few that are still in print you might like: The Johnson Mountain Boys, Jackass Flats, Lonesome Standard Time, Bluegrass Brothers, The Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, Blue Highway, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Red Allen & The Kentuckians, Reno & Smiley, Carl Story, Kentucky Travelers, and The Laurel Canyon Ramblers. And don't forget The Nashville Bluegrass Band and Bill Clifton!
 
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Look for Dan Tyminski's new CD Wheels. He has put together a new band, The Dan Tyminski Band. Dan lives in the next holler over from me, and he told me there's some bootleg CD's around from the band he played with in high school, Green Mountain Bluegrass. He released Carry Me Across The Mountain in 2000, but it's not as good as Wheels.

He plays with Allison Krause and Union Station, and it was his lead vocals you heard when Clooney did Man of Constant Sorrow in the movie.

If there was some way I could get my library to you, I think you would like it. I grew up with bluegrass, and my 91 year old dad still has the recording he made of Maybelle Carter's first live performance. It was on an AM radio station out of Hazard KY.

We've got weeks worth of bluegrass music saved...but as dear ol dad says, pure bluegrass doesn't have singing in it. Hard core old school!

Google Galax Old Time Fiddler's Convention and check out some of the bands that play there. You can sometimes find links to some great bluegrass bands there.

Here's a few that are still in print you might like: The Johnson Mountain Boys, Jackass Flats, Lonesome Standard Time, Bluegrass Brothers, The Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, Blue Highway, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Red Allen & The Kentuckians, Reno & Smiley, Carl Story, Kentucky Travelers, and The Laurel Canyon Ramblers. And don't forget The Nashville Bluegrass Band.
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I call Allison Kraus "McBluegrass" I recall seeing her back in the 80's when she had Jerry Douglas and Allison Brown in the band and they played and sung up a storm.

But anymore IMO the best part of her performances is when she turns it over to Tyminski. More pure bluegrass.

I sort of feel she had sort of a negative effect of the sound of Nickle Creek also when she produced their album, sort of toning down the jamming and turning them into "The Backstreet Boys of Bluegrass" as a friend puts it.;)

PS Would LOVE to hear that Maybelle Carter you mention.
 
She's "bluegrass lite"! I agree with you about what she did to Nickle Creek. But she did a helluva job with Gillian Welch on I'll Fly Away. Dan on the mandolin in the background didn't hurt, either!

Dan's stuff with Lonesome River Band before he got with Alison was great, too!

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for some old fashioned texas style blues try bill neely if ya can find an album, he had quite a following in the austin area in the early '80s.

he's dead now, him & my dad were good buds & i knew bill for yrs, from when i was a little kid.
 
SPXTrader said:
Google Galax Old Time Fiddler's Convention and check out some of the bands that play there. You can sometimes find links to some great bluegrass bands there.

Here's a few that are still in print you might like: The Johnson Mountain Boys, Jackass Flats, Lonesome Standard Time, Bluegrass Brothers, The Osborne Brothers, Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, Blue Highway, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Red Allen & The Kentuckians, Reno & Smiley, Carl Story, Kentucky Travelers, and The Laurel Canyon Ramblers. And don't forget The Nashville Bluegrass Band and Bill Clifton!
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There used to be a radio station out of Galax,Va that played bluegrass,I think it was on AM.I used to pick it up for an hour or so in southern Va,on Fancy Gap Mountain and in northern NC,anybody know if they're still on the air and if they broadcast over the internet?
 
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