O/T (big time) WHO here listens to BLUE GRASS?

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[NortonG]

My dad had a whole bunch of mixed bluegrass tapes when I was a kid, we used to run around the driveway like maniacs when he would put them on.
We have a country bar near are house and they get alot of good bluegrass acts in.

[KIRK!]

I love bluegrass. I have listened to it since I was a kid. It was what my grandpa listened to. That whole side of my family is from Arkansas so I think it's in my blood to dig it. There is a bitchin bluegrass station on the internet. bluegrasscountry.org Cool shit all day long! I listen to it at work. Check it out!

[Gracie]

I love bluegrass... I have it playing all the time in my truck... boy do I get funny looks here in Vegas with the Dillards blaring! I grew up on bluegrass and gospel... ya just can't be in a bad mood listening to either one!

[Kustm52]

My hand's up.....don't listen a whole lot, but I play the banjo...Lester and Earl ruled!

Brian

[Nimrod]

Traditional and Fast, goes hand in hand with Hot Rods in my crooked mind.
"Old Time" is my musical preferance. Everyone on the HAMB should go out and pick up the complete early recorings of DOCK BOGGS!

[metalshapes]

We have a local Radio station that has a hour long Bluegrass show every week.
And I have a hand full of Bluegrass CD that I like to listen too.
But that is not the only kind of music I enjoy.
I have a good collection of Traditional Celtic Music ( Bagpipes mostly...)
And to give you an idea of how warped I am, I would love to hear some guys do " Dualing Banjos " ( the deleverance movie tune ) on Bagpipe and a Electric Guitar...

[swazzie]

Oh Yeah , Sign Me up! Tell me where that rockabilly twang came from / cow punk anyone?

[swazzie]

You could put a cat and a kazoo in a box and I'm no more musicaly inclined ,but wow! that sound.

[andysdeuce]

Bluegrass is cool. I especially like most of Allison Krause and her band. Thats my travelling music and what you will hear in my hot rod about 95 percent of the time. I don't care for some of the whiney Bill Monroe suff but if it has a fiddle and banjo I'm there. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[flying clutchman]

i enjoy bluegrass music. i couldnt name any songs or artists but i listen to the bluegrass station quite often.

[Kinky6]

Yep, traditional bluegrass, newgrass, psychograss, whatever, I love it!

Guys like Doc Watson, or Flatt & Scruggs are the greats, of course, and living in the mountains of western North Carolina introduced me to a variety of local acts. One of the best of these was the Luke Smathers Band, from the Canton, N.C., area. In the period shortly after WWII, they played many local dance halls with a blend of country bluegrass and swing music. I got to see these guys, well up in their seventies, back about 10 years ago.

I am a huge fan of David Grisman, who is one of the finest mandolin players in the country. His quartets and quintets playing a fast-paced blend of jazz and bluegrass, known as "Dawg Music", are incredible. He was a good friend of Jerry Garcia, and they recorded a couple of albums back in '73 as the group "Old and in the Way", featuring Vasser Clemments and Peter Rowan. Look for this stuff on the Rounder records label, if you've never heard it.

I had the pleasure of seeing Bela Fleck, and the guy who taught him how to play the banjo, Tony Trishka, play a 3 hour concert of banjo duets. Great stuff. Mark O'Conner, Darryl Anger, and Allison Krauss are some of my favorite fiddle players.

There is an NPR station in western Alabama that plays a 3 hour long bluegrass show every Saturday night. If I'm in the car, I'll tune it in.

Funny, I hadn't thought about this in a while. I really hated moving out of the mountains to relative flatlands of L.A. (Lower Alabama). A few weeks after I'd moved, I was back in N.C., enjoying the early fall up on the Blue Ridge Parkway, up around Graveyard Fields and Shining Rock. I was pulled over on a side road, enjoying the veiw, and bumming about not living up there anymore at the same time. Then I notice a guy parked a little ways up the road from me breaks out the guitar, and starts playing "Rocky Top". Well, I wasn't actually crying by the time he finished, but I did get a lump in my throat.

Yeah, I like bluegrass.....

[purple]

<font color="purple"> I love a wide variety of music, and bluegrass is one of them. I only own 1 CD, "Fade to Bluegrass, a tribute to Metallica" by Iron Horse. It is a fuckin awesome disc. I have a few vynil too, one is rare recordings of backwoods guys done by The Grass Roots. They were kind enough to go out to the middle of nowhere and record these oldtimers before they left us. I don't remember the name of it, and my albums are in storage, so I can't tell ya any more. </font>

[Skate Fink]

........used to attend a lot of fiddler's conventions in the 70's. Don't listen to it much, but SMOKED a hell of a lot it in my day......... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[james]

i like it but am no expert, but I am in total love with Alison Krauss!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[fuel pump]

I like most all bluegrass but Allison Krauss and Union Station are tops in my book. The sound track to Oh Brother Where For Art Thou is fantastic. There is a follow up CD by the same artists that is also very cool.... if you dig bluegrass.

[disastron13]

Oh yes...during 2003 I put on a Gospel Hour on the little pirate station here, played everything from Bill Monroe to the New Lost City Ramblers. Everything in between.
Now I do a "traditional" C&amp;W show Friday nights, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, Rose Maddox, Jean Chappel. Buck Owens, Texas Playboys,
A bit of rockasilly too.
Those old songs are a look into the past, at an America that has pretty much disappeared. The "old weird America" someone called it.
Yeah punk might be dead, but you can still listen to them old records and try to figure out what our strange country was like in them days...same with bluegrass.
That Blaster's tune, "American Music".
Nothing like it in the world.

[Curly]

OK.... ya got me!

I listen to Lester and Earl alot! I also dig Ralph Stanley. Listen to Bluegrass almost daily and even started to play the banjo.

I also think of moonshine and the real reason for flat black. My dad told me that grandpa used to say "It doesn't reflect the moonlight so the revenuers or the high sheriff can't see ya." Hot flatheads and "mystery gas tanks" were the norm.

I love the sound of a banjo and have a relative that places extremely high in the Fiddlers Convention every year. I kinda think of it as a 'family thing'.

[zman]

Maybe we should invade Merlefest with our trucks. Yeah I got some bluegrass.

[jalopy43]

Count me in! It's a plus to live in Bluegrass country also!

[choprods]

Hay Tingler- you shoulda mentioned that-Rhonda Vincent is from here- she lives about 30 miles from here at Greentop Mo.[very nice girl]'
Her Family/ band[the Sally Moutain show]perform locally as well. My buddy [HAMBER Singledownloop] knows her better.

[Stoner]

Here's a good example of where hot rods and Bluegrass meet:

Look up Roddy Moore at Ferrum College in Ferrum, VA (http://www.blueridgeinstitute.org). He's a good friend of GARAGE and he's also the director, curator and historian for the Blue Ridge Institute.

Not only does he own some of the most amazing hot rods in southern Virginia, he is a walking encyclopedia of Bluegrass.

Like some of you, I grew up with it in southern PA and got re-acquainted with it a few years ago. I was working on a moonshine book when I was introduced to Roddy and by the by, we got around to Bluegrass. I personally like the old time stuff and his Institute carries quite a collection. I've also gotten into the "hardcore" side of that scene--Work Songs. Roddy has a collection on CD and tape of rare slave work songs that were actually recorded by some enterprising white folks back when recordings were first being experimented with. Great stuff. It'll really move you. If you don't know what I'm talking about, listen to the first song on the "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack. That's a work song and this collection is an original set of recordings. I don't know how Roddy found this stuff, but if anyone can, it's him.

Back to Bluegrass--if you can find it, there's a CD (or two) put out by a band called "Bluegrass Drive-By." If you like the old stuff with a new kick, then you need to track these CDs down. The band broke up, but the recordings are still out there. They're from Austin, TX and I think Beanie still works at the Home Depot down there in the paint dept. "Live At Stubbs" is their best one, and if you want a copy of it, send me a PM and I'll burn one for you.

Love this shit, man.

Stoner

[delaware george]

hell yeah...does hayseed dixie count?...all ac/dc covers in bluegrass.....on a more serious note,alot of the traditional bluegrass is amazing...i was listening to some in our tattoo shop and some dumb girl asked what it was...i told her it was slayer,unplugged http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Roothawg]

I have a 5 string that I have been trying to master for years. I think I should give up. I am a BIG BLUEGRASS FAN. I like the traditional stuff as well as the modern stuff.

[Fat Hack]

Oh, shit...I thought this was gonna be one of Germ's trick weed questions...

"Yeah, I smoked some blue grass once and nailed a velvet clad lesbian..." http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Ha Ha Ha...I've liked that music ever since the Dukes Of Hazzard, man!

People look at me all strange when they hear the odd mixture of tunes booming outta my daily rat...

"Rocky Top" (full Banjo golden version)
"Disco Duck" (Rick Dees' fowl Ball)
"Blondes In Black Cars" (Full Hair Autograph)
"Hooked On A Feeling" (Blue Sueded Hooga-Chagga groove!)
"Lightning Rod" (Jerry Reed Jam!)
"Star Wars Disco" (Movie theme to mirror ball beat...a Dance Fever staple!)
"It's Alright" (Obscure Waylon Jennings ribber)
"Better Every Beer" (Dunken Stray Cats crooning)
"Stumblin In" (Leather Tuscadaro aka Suzi Quattro hit!)
"Jimmy and Joanie" (Twiity Tearjerker I can relate to)
"Muppet Show Theme" (lotsa fun in a traffic jam!)


But I've always dug OLD country...Tom T Hall and David Allan Coe are RULERS in that catagory...

...and believe it or not, John Schnieder has the best male voice in the fucking WORLD...his album SMOKES!

Yeah...I like a little Country Twang to offset my Disco Thang now and then! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Big A]

They don't call Niagara "the Deep South of the Far North" for nothing. There's a strange bluegrass secret society up here.

Flat picking just blows my mind.

[old beet]

Don't listen to it much, but perrty sure I smoked it before!.........OLDBEET

[luckystiff]

bluegrass is what i listen to most of the time. which be here in the NC mountains makes it and easy thing. you guys who are lovin' your 1-2 hour bluegrass radio shows, here we have WNCW which every saturday from noon to 6 is the bluegrass show. thats right 6 hours of bluegrass and about 75 percent of the time they have someone playing live right in the studio. probably one of the best reasons to live here. i also live about 5 miles from HIckory Motor Speedway which was started by Junior Johnson and is where most of the bigs in Nascar get there start. oh yeah and to pour salt even deeper into the wound the wife and i both work for a local newspaper and get into most of this stuff for free.

back to bluegrass i think it goes very well hand in hand with hotrods. alot of older bluegrass acts would transport shine with 'em from what i'm told. anyhow here's a few i haven't seen mentioned. Del McCoury, Gillian Welch, Pine MOuntain Railroad. Del being one of my favorites right now and for the last coupla years actually. Rhonda Vincent as mentioned before is also incredible. she plays at a little bluegrass barn about 15 minutes from my house about 4 times a year. most all the members of her band also have solo releases. the kid who plays guitar for her Josh Williams is amazing and has a new disc coming out on Pinecastle Recordings. i could go on and on about this so i'll stop now.

Von,
merlefest is in a coupla weeks you should consider coming over for it. probably the biggest bluegrass gathering around.i'll be there on sat which is the best day. most people only go for 1 day because it is a little pricey but well wourth it...ken....

[stealthcruiser]

yup'
got a listener here!
and yes that hayseed dixie is some funny stuff.

a good one i came across the other day:

Tommy Edwards,Good Company.
The Bluegrass Experience
Salisbury Street Recordings(ssr1945)
if you come across it,check it out!
someone gave it to my wife at her dental office the other day,and she brought it home.
good stuff.

[Roothawg]

Split Lip Rayfield (?) is some modern freaky bluegrass....pretty funny.

[nailhead60]

Bluegrass for this hick as well !! And we have the Winfield Bluegrass Festival every september, With Split Lip Rayfield ,Allison Krause, Beppe Gambette,And Randy Krouch! It lasts for a week and everybody camps!! Walnut Valley is where I get mine...Root should bring his banjo to that,
Mcphail has even done A couple of really kool posters for em

[286merc]

I grew up in the NYC area before Bill Haley and Alan Freed made R&amp;R popular. I couldnt stand that pop crap my parents listened to and by a fortunate stroke of luck my grandmother gave me her 30's era Zenith cathedral table radio when I was around 10.

After dark when the skip on AM radio came in I found bluegrass from stations such as WWVA, WCKY, and down into the New Orleans area. I was hooked. Even the selective fading common to AM skip gave the music a new dimension.

I have a few GB downloaded from the old Napster and lately Kazaa to keep me entertained as well as another 10-12 GB of doo wop, early R&amp;R, ~40's black blues which includes a lot of what could be considered the birth of doo wop and R&amp;R.

Up here in Northern New England there is a lot of local bluegrass festival activity plus there is a large amount from the Canadian Maritimes as well as French Quebec. You aint heard bluegrass until it is done Quebecois style!

[Roothawg]

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Bluegrass for this hick as well !! And we have the Winfield Bluegrass Festival every september, With Split Lip Rayfield ,Allison Krause, Beppe Gambette,And Randy Krouch! It lasts for a week and everybody camps!! Walnut Valley is where I get mine...Root should bring his banjo to that,
Mcphail has even done A couple of really kool posters for em

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I am not very good....I just keep it for when I start to convince myself that I am musically inclined.....a couple of hours later and I am reminded of why I can't play. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[purple]

<font color="purple"> Did I mention way back in '90, my Folk band I played bass in would throw in a fiddle song here and there as filler. The 2 brother's I played with had before played in the family bluegrass band. There are a few fiddle contests up this way. The daughter of one of the best teachers up here now plays with Rod Stewart. </font>

[Buick59]

Hey creep......Im a rockerbilly and I love Bluegrass music. In fact I love almost all American roots music.

Right now my favorite is the Stanley Brothers.

[Roothawg]

I would say the best album for a guy to buy that has never listened to BlueGrass, is the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's album, "Will the Circle be Unbroken".

It has all the greats on it. Some are long since gone but they were captured on tape for all to enjoy.

[Paul]

I put on some Bad Livers when I'm in the mood.

'bout all I got..

Paul

[Dr. Shocker]

I f'n love bluegrass even if there isn't a great deal in the collection....there are a few contemporary bluegrass bands here in VTA that I see whenever time allows........its so much fun....my fav right now is a group of girls called LillyWater thier awsome......

http://www.lilywaterband.com/

[singledownloop]

Hey yes like Choprods mentioned i know Rhonda Vincent very well.I worked for her husband for 5 years.She's been in it for over 30 years and she's only in her early 40's.I have a cd somewhere of where she was performing as a small child.Her brother plays for some nationaly recognized band but which one escapes me right now.Her dad is very talented and it was a family act until the kids grew up and she and her brother went out to do their own thing.Rhonda used to have a blind fiddler that was simply incredible.She mostly plays the mandolin.And yes if you can't tell i like bluegrass.

[DrJ]

I would say the best album for a guy to buy that has never listened to BlueGrass, is the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's album, "Will the Circle be Unbroken".




I went to High School with Jimmy Fadden of the Dirt Band. Most people in school thought they were a bit weird in the middle 60's playing that "country music" them being "City Boys" and all. And that was at the height of the surf music and start of the Beatles and Stones and pre-Jefferson Airplane, fame anyway.
I think the NGDirt Band was the first US band to tour the USSR.

Anyone familiar with Jim Qweskin's Jug Band?

[InjectorTim]

I enjoy some Flatt &amp; Scruggs every now and again.

[DGAS56]

have since the bluegrass resurgence in the mid 70's ,still love it

[tootallrodder]

Count me in on the Blue grass Listener.
Country, Blue Grass, 60's and some 70's Rock and Roll especially Southern rock. this is from a Ct. Yankee in the HAMB Court. Count me out for "CRAP" music, Opera or show tunes.

[Slick50]

My vote goes to WNCW in Spindale NC as well. Best all around station ever. Check it out online.
WNCW.org

[safariknut]

I'm a fan of ALL types of music(except rap)and bluegrass is definitely of my favorites.Got a couple tapes of the Walnut Valley thing of many years ago when Mark O'Connor won the flat picking contest(the year after he won the fiddling contest).I think he was 14 at the time.Saw Alison Krause at the Lowell(Massachusetts)Folk Festival when she was a teenager.Ricky Skaggs at the North Shore Music Theater put on an incredible show.Played every instrument and then finished it off with an a capella gospel tune.Recently saw him together with Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs and Alison Krause sitting in for a couple.
Another not so well known group was from the Boston area called the Charles River Valley Boys.Did a great album called Beatle Country(you have to hear Yellow Submarine done bluegrass style!).Or Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys doing "Strike a Match".The all time great old timey group though has to be the Osbourne Brothers.Just my opinion.

[Chuck Fish]

YES! I like both kinds of music...Bluegrass and Bluegrass Gospel. I was raised onthe stuff and have never drifted far away. We have a lot of great local guys and gals in our area that play and I live just up the road from Bill Harrell.
There's a little music store,locally,"Deale Bluegrass" that puts on a one day festival and car show every year.Dos'nt get any better than hotrods &amp; bluegrass ( local and big names)Good food too. You'er even welcome to bring your ax and sit in with folks who just come to the festival to jam.

Chuck Fish

[redmeat]

<font color="red"> Want a fun cd?.....try Hayseed Dixie.....it is a ACDC cover band...all done as bluegrass!

R E D M E A T

[dusty]

Cant believe all the bg fans here. I guess someone had to say it first! There is great bluegrass on XM Radio 24/7. Truck radio is always on it as well as the garage radio about 50 percent of the time. I used to play bass fiddle in an old time band back in Ashe County, NC. Got to jam with some really cool folks at the fiddlers convention throughout Southern Va and Northern NC. Also learned how to build banjos and dulcimers while there. Sure miss the mountain music.

[Kustm52]

Al right, do I see a moonshine fueled hoedown around the pig pit at the Drags http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif?? I'm in.....

Old and In the Way's version of "O Come Angel Band" is one of the greatest ever....

Alison Krauss is HOT.....


Brian

[John B]

Hack mentioned Tom T Hall. Would you believe I'm one of a only a few in Olive Hill,Ky. not related to him in some way? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

How come no one has mentioned the Burns Brothers AKA Run C &amp; W

[hillbillyhellcat]

Ayuh, hot rods &amp; bluegrass just go together. I have a whole bunch of stuff, the Time Life Bluegrass treasury of Bluegrass is a good find, It was pleasant to play it through central VA on ol 17 on the way home today, just perfect.

Believe it or not, there is a lot of great bluegrass coming from Europe nowadays. I wonder how long it will take for the Japanese to embrace it? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Brad54]

This is one of the coolest experiences of my life:
A friend of mine lives in Mt. Airy, N.C.--this is the town Andy Griffith was from, and based Maybury off of, complete with the Fixit shop, Floyd the Barber, Snappy Lunch, it's all there.
Bob lives up a holler in a log cabin, and has a friend who's nationally known for 6-string, and his son plays the fiddle. The grandpa of the clan is in the Smithsonian as the example of Old Time music. He taught his son, grandson and my friend Bob to play the banjo.
I went up there two years ago and listened to the three of them jam in the log cabin while we all finished off 2 1/2 Ball Mason jars of "home brewed" white lightning and peach brandy. (Actually, the "brandy" was just white lightning with a bunch of whole peaches put in the jar before the squeezin's were poured in on top of them and sealed to age).
I'm sure hard core blue grass fans would know the Grandad and son's names, but I couldn't tell you right now.
Worth every bit of the next day's fuzzy tongue.
I'll remember that forever.
-Brad

[Chili Phil]

Yeah Baby!!! Hot Rize and their alter ego… Red Knuckles. Del McCoury and the boys. Rhonda Vincent. Run C&amp;W. Grissman. James King. Or the stuff where the banjo player grins and says:"Pick it up". And you're already playing "Fox on the run" at around 300 BPM. Whew!

That's the shit that will earn ya a big ol' speeding ticket.

And you folks with that AC/DC cover stuff need to listen a bit further.

Most of the great pickers are from the Nashville area, which is strange because the establishment there doesn't really support it. They seem to see it as a red-headed stepchild when it's really the root of country. Music that matters is coming from Austin Texas these days.

Your mileage may vary.

[hotrodA]

Oooohhh yeeaaahh! Count me in. One station here on Saturday mornings plays 2 hours of bluegrass and old timey gospel FOLLOWED by 2 hours of traditonal and new bluegrass. Another station picks up after that with two more hours of "trad" BG. Lots of air banjo and mandolin pickin on Saturdays http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[delaware george]

if you can find it,FROM THE HILLS is funny also,but still a quality record...i've been a fan of bluegrass since watching hee haw with the grand folks ...roy clark can pick

[choprods]

seriously I never knew what Blegrass music was -we were rock&amp;rollers.Then I heard Flatt and Scruggs...WHEW!.......SMOKIN!

[WildWilly68]

Put me down as a fan as well. I saw Bill Monroe at a bluegrass festival when I was about 8 years old and started playing the banjo after that. Like most kids that lasted about a year and it sat in closet until a few years ago when I picked it up again. Still can't play shit but I love listening to it and any other traditional "mountain music."

[quickrod]

i had to surf this post to see if curly read it.....did'nt really pay much attention to it until he made me listen to it one day and i gotta tell ya{occ tm} http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gifthe stuff he played for me i liked,.....plus he's got a little family history with it,so the stories were cool too http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Deyomatic]

I'm all over it. Mostly the old stuff, though. Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs.

In fact, I am one of 200 or so people that can say I heard about the Iraq invasion from Ralph Stanley on the night it happened.

[Jimv]

I'm a big fan of the instrumental bluegrass, but once the singing starts i can't listen to those nasaliely, whiney voices.
I did hear a BG song called"Purple Hay"that Jimi copied!!lol http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
JimV

[disastron13]

Speakin a fast cars, bluegrass and moon shine, just finished readin "Moonshine War" by Elmore Leonard. Heard years ago there was a movie option on that novel.
Fell through I guess.
So what's the best boot leggin novel?
Was there ever a good movie about it?
My radio show next week is going to be all Hank Williams,
getting in the mood for a jar of shine. My connection in Hartford, Kentucky fell through, and they don't make it here

[krupanut]

Reno and Smiley!

[OldsRanch]

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Hack mentioned Tom T Hall. Would you believe I'm one of a only a few in Olive Hill,Ky. not related to him in some way? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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You forgot Charles Manson from Grahn(?). Carter County sure can brag about that one...

I went to MSU, and ate at Walker's Grill more times than I can remember.

[BoomBoom]

Im right there witch ya VonT! Dont forget the Darlins on the Andy Griffin show and who was it that did the Bluegrass version of SnoopDog?

[Samantha]

Count me in as a Blue Grass fan too! I don't think there is a more beautiful voice out there than Alison Krauss. AKUS sounds even better live...amazing stuff. The Del McCoury (sp?) Band kicks butt as well! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[John B]

Charlie says he's coming home when he gets out of jail. Can't wait for that. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Wonder if we can have him a parade http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif



I'm headed for Walker's here in just a little bit. Haven't had a good greasy burger since they shut down JimBo's in Morehead http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Spitfire1776]

Hey I dig blue grass. Its in the roots of rockabilly. Lotta blue grass festivals around here.

[gears-n-grease]

I got a ton of stuff on vinyl that i have burned to cd like white springs festivals from the 70's, some Ralph Stanley stuff and even some Chester and Lester- Bluegrass is great.

[dixiedog]

my ASS is in the GRASS and love it - that and Gaelic Music are my two favorites - traditional pipe and drum

Being from West BY GOD Virginia our family reunions would be a small bluegrass / gospel concert that would go as long as the Carlings Black Label lasted. Everytime I hear "will the circle be unbroken" it brings a tear to my eye.

I had a 5 string, but my buddy that was teaching me to pick said "if you can pick your nose - stick with that - 'cause you pick a banjo" sold it at a yard sale (big mistake). Being in the capital of South Georgia you would think there would be some grass on the radio - but no.

My other favorite is Gaelic Music - got hooked on it years ago, have my own kilt and even did the Highland Games. Nothing gives me stiffy like a set of pipes.

When i was in Tampa there is a radio station WMNF, monday nights had Bluegrass and Thursday night was Music of the Isles.

[safariknut]

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My other favorite is Gaelic Music - got hooked on it years ago, have my own kilt and even did the Highland Games. Nothing gives me stiffy like a set of pipes.



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Then you have to hear Rufus Harley;the only person who plays jazz and blues bagpipes.He was in Detroit a few months ago and I missed it.Unbelievable sound!

[Unkl Ian]

I just went and bought Rufus Harley,The Pied Piper of Jazz.
Very different,sounds more like a Clarinet.
I was expecting more of a Steve Earl vibe.

[Jackbolt]

I was surfing the HAMB board and discovered the bluegrass heading in the title.
I too am a bluegrass and old time lover. I played banjo for a bluegrass band for 13 years. I then got into old time music and started playing fiddle and clawhammer banjo. Since old time pickers are far and few between, I'm now playing fiddle for a bluegrass band for bluegrass pickers are hanging out of the trees. I sure love the old time stuff though!
I sure enjoy building a fire in the garage woodstove during the winter, plugging some good bluegrass/old time tapes, and working on my rods.
Good to know there's other "off the beaten path" music fans out there.

[graverobber63]

........used to attend a lot of fiddler's conventions in the 70's. Don't listen to it much, but SMOKED a hell of a lot it in my day......... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

ZZZZzing 10 points for you!!!!!

Kentucky Blue Grass

[cabriolethiboy]

I don't listen to it much, but I like it. My cousin plays in the "Rarely Heard" band. I guess they had one on the chart. Don't know the name of it. I go to see them when they are in town.

[hog mtn dave]

Must have missed this thread the first time around. I grew up outside DC, right up the hill from the old Birchmere in Arlington. Probably the number 1 bluegrass bar of all time. Bluegrass is one of of those things that you either get it or you don't. I have too many favorites to list. Listen to the soundtrack of "Oh Brother Where art Thou" in the truck with a couple of non bluegrass listeners, especially the Ralph Stanley cuts, and they'll swear you're nuts.

The bluegrass version of Snoop Dog's "Gin and Juice" is done by The Gourds and it's a classic. If you haven't heard it, make a point of finding a way to put it on a CD or mp3.

[johnboyrox]

ME, ME, ME!!! I am a banjo man. Sometimes, I sit and play so long, I barely have any time to read the HAMB which is why I am posting in june to an april thread. Sorry for extending this out, but there are precious few chances to brag that you play the 5-string Banjo. Bluegrass and I are not going steady though, I will listen to about anything good.

[Turbo26T]

Bluegrass Rules!!! (Sorry ,Skaggs...) I've been hooked since way back in my pre-teens . Born in Charlotte NC n 41..(Monroe recorded here in the 40's @WBT).Lived very near a country radio station and bluegrass tunes were played every day as regular "country" music rotation..got turned onto local fiddle contests early 60's..camped & played all night jams at most all the East coast bluegrass festivals 60's -70's..started on upright bass '65...been in a ton of local,amateur bands..Lived in Asheville NC for a number of years ( 'nuther historic B/G town)...a real hotbed of oldtime & b/grass music & played in 5 bands while living there....Moved back to near Charlotte,sold the bass & quit playing mid 80"s .... .Still hooked & listen every day in my shop , vehicles..(WNCW @ local college plays B/G all day Saturday)....CD's mostly now...but still have a collection of early stuff on VINYL !!!!

[borndead327]

split lip rayfield is good

[Turbo26T]

Another thought just hit me....Bluegrass and hotrods are both about as parallel &traditional as you can get ...both born & developed in the late 40's - early 50's and are truly American art forms...and furthermore , most all great renditions are based on the early stuff...

[Redneck Smooth]

Yeah, I've played in bands for almost ten years now and I'm CERTAIN that the best musicians in this town are bluegrass players...

[Turbo26T]

Another thought just hit me....Bluegrass and HotRods are about as parallel & traditional as it gets..both developed in the 40's -50's ..both are American art forms...and most great renditions since then are based on the early stuff....Thanks to people handing down the tradition of b/grass music & to the HAMB for a traditional Hot Rod forum

[hillbillydeluxe]

Uh, I hate to be a ball buster, but a guy yesterday got shit on for talking about 60s cars, O/T. What the hell does bluegrass have to do with traditional hotrods?

[mojo273]

Uh, I hate to be a ball buster, but a guy yesterday got shit on for talking about 60s cars, O/T. What the hell does bluegrass have to do with traditional hotrods?

And this comin from a hillbilly:p

I played bluegrass for about 3 years down in St. Louis till our washboard player passed. Had some good times with those rowdies.....

[hillbillydeluxe]

I know, Hillbilly to the end. Just please don't start talking about a wooden boat, a dead grandma, lost dog or a Toyota engine, or >gasp< a car ending in ". . maro". Seems I've seen almost all of them on here lately, a traditional hotrod site.

Now, all cynicism aside, isn't bluegrass quite a bit older then the 40s and 50s? I believe it goes back to the Appalachian Civil War era (?) Been wrong before, but I got some lessons from a guy who used to be Canadian national bluegrass champ in the late 70s.

[mojo273]

I know, Hillbilly to the end. Just please don't start talking about a wooden boat, a dead grandma, lost dog or a Toyota engine, or >gasp< a car ending in ". . maro". Seems I've seen almost all of them on here lately, a traditional hotrod site.

Now, all cynicism aside, isn't bluegrass quite a bit older then the 40s and 50s? I believe it goes back to the Appalachian Civil War era (?) Been wrong before, but I got some lessons from a guy who used to be Canadian national bluegrass champ in the late 70s.

It has been around forever, but like everything else (including hot rods) it has resurfaced time and time again. Ya just can't shake the good stuff..

[KIRK!]

ME!!!! I have since I was a baby. It's what most of my childhood memories of my grandparents sound like in my head.

I just saw an awesome group in Nashville last week at Lula's Bluegrass. They were called Silk and Saddle. I guess they used to be The Carters.

[hillbillydeluxe]

"This thread was O/T and online before you joined the HAMB."

Not denying that one bit. Maybe you can clear up what passes here for an O/T discussion. . .

[Rand Man]

I dig it. I listen to XM radio 12 Cross Country. A lot of the new Alternative-Progreesive Country has Bluegrass influences.

[Redneck Smooth]

Bluegrass actually goes back to Irish folk music brought over by immigrants mixing with other influences. A lot of famous bluegrass songs are actually Irish Folk songs. "Katie Daly" for instance...

[Stoner]

HELL, yeah. It's good to see I'm not the only one who's hooked on the 'grass. My ex-half-brother-in-law (how's that for the new American family) played in a good bluegrass band in Austin called "Bluegrass Driveby." I think you can still find the CD online. Check it--it's worth the hunt.

One of my favorite sayings of his:

What's the least heard expression in the English language? 'Hey, is that the banjo player's Porsche parked out front?'

That's good stuff, right there.

And if you REALLY want to get obscure, I can turn you on to some haunting work songs recorded by a few old guys with some field equipment from the '20s-'40s.

[BAD ROD]

I play bluegrass on my banjo. :D

Mike

[palosfv3]

bluegrass the true american music. check out del mc courys "asheville turnaround" and the nashville bluegrass bands " blue cadillac" it just fits .
radio on full blast ,foot to the floor.

[andysdeuce]

Boy, talk about a o/t old thread!!!:eek: Yeah I still love my bluegrass and force it on my friends when they are in my hotrod. Somebody has to educate them!!!:D

[48fordnut]

A friend I grew up with in the 50s has a band and plays most any thing , except the fiddle. love the music.yes it has been around for a long time.

[chopnchaneled]

"bluegrass",grew up with it,woke up in the morning with it, last thing at night that i heard, you would think after all these years i would hate it, but alison krauss brought me back around.

[desertdroog]

http://bustedhearts.net/

Local heroes and you can download free songs in mp3 format from their site with their blessing.

For all you punk ass mofros -> Yes, that is Chip Hanna from the U.S. Bombs on lead vocals.

[HOTRODPRIMER]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/images/icons/icon1.gif O/T (big time) WHO here listens to BLUE GRASS?

Oh yeah,,,,,I love it,,,HRP

[Turbo26T]

I know, Hillbilly to the end. Just please don't start talking about a wooden boat, a dead grandma, lost dog or a Toyota engine, or >gasp< a car ending in ". . maro". Seems I've seen almost all of them on here lately, a traditional hotrod site.

Now, all cynicism aside, isn't bluegrass quite a bit older then the 40s and 50s? I believe it goes back to the Appalachian Civil War era (?) Been wrong before, but I got some lessons from a guy who used to be Canadian national bluegrass champ in the late 70s.

In the 40's ,Bill Monroe & his band were known as the Bluegrass Boys..The music and the way they played it became very popular and people were always asking to hear some of that music "..that the Bluegrass Boys played..." so that style became known as B/Grass ...True ,lots of it's roots are far earlier,but it did not become known as B/grass til the mid-late 40's...great book on the subject that 'splains it all is: "Can't you hear me callin' ..The Life of Bill Monroe " by Richard D. Smith Little/Brown ISBN 0-316-80381-2

[rbroadster]

Used to enjoy it more than I do now. After years of hearing it ALL weekend long on my parents' back porch and being forced to carry instruments to the cars for pickers who've sipped a bit too much 'shine, it gets a little old. Nothing better than a good BG band, nothing worse than a bad one.

[cleatus]

Ha! Good to hear so many here are into it, 'cause most of my friends make fun of me for listening to it - but damn it, I dig it! I think Gracie said it best - it's hard to feel anything but happy when you listen to this shit.

Thanks to those who threw out some names of recordings to check out.

Hey, give a listen to "Groovegrass 101", a one-off compilation CD that even has Bootsy Collins and some samples from Minnie Pearl thrown in there!

[whodaky]

Tingler, thanks for this thread. I have only really taken to Blue Grass in the last 6 months or so. Influenced by a couple of work mates.
I always have music playing when I am striping, blues and blue grass is what I listening when I feel I produce my best lines. Oh and I am liking folk/gospel stuff as well. Geoff aka whodaky

[AZAV8]

This thread may be old and I may have posted on it, I don't know because I didn't read every post.

That said, Yes, I listen to Blue Grass and Western and Country and Folk and Surf and Rockabilly and...
John McEuen rocks on banjo. He's not as good as Earl Scruggs but close counts.
Add in sea chanties and English, Scottish and Irish reels and don't forget bagpipes. If its got a Celtic beat and sound to it, its on the CD spieler. A lot of blue grass' roots are in the Scots-Irish folk tunes from the immigrants who settled the Southern colonies and mountains.

And that's my nickle's worth.

[Appleseed]

Anyone in the Chicago area needs to listen to WDCB 90.9 College of DuPAge radio. Its mostly jazz, but around 7:00 pm on mondays (I think), they play so kick ass blue grass. They also play killer acid jazz on Satudray nights around 12:00 am.

[thewishartkid]

I love Bluegrass,Great background music while your runn'n "shine".