There's not really a general, all-purpose bluegrass thread, so let's fix that. Let's talk about favorite bands, artists, recordings and releases. For instance, I'm a huge Tony Rice fan and own most of his many recordings on vinyl and CD. I just recently found that there is a 2010 release of 1975 live recordings from a Japan tour of the classic J.D. Crowe and The New South band, "Holiday in Japan", a double CD. But it took me a while to find what I believe is the only place to find the set, an internet site called CountySales.com. I can't believe this was off my radar! I also ordered two CDs that bluegrass fans should find interesting: The New Kentucky Colonels, one live in Sweden and one live in Holland, from their 1973 tour. The Sweden release was previously released on vinyl only, as "The White Brothers Live in Sweden," and this new CD release is expanded. Anyways, let's talk BLUEGRASS!
I'm going to see The Steel Drivers tomorrow night! A friend of mine is a huge bluegrass fan and every time there's a show he drags a bunch of us with him. Shows are always exceptional- some of the best musicians coupled with some tight arrangements. Recommend me some!
Recently I was listening to the 1975 album "Pistol Packin' Mama" by Frank Wakefield and the Good Old Boys, and was blown away by the brilliant interplay between banjo master Don Reno and legendary fiddler Chubby Wise. It's a shame that the earlier recordings (1962) of those two with Frank Wakefield and Red Allen are scattered and tough to find.
7 Women Smashing the Bluegrass Glass Ceiling Was just reading this article on Paste. 7 Women Smashing the Bluegrass Ceiling
The farthest I go is string cheese incident an left over salmon. I love bluegrass in the jam context. Ricky skaggs is great in small doses.
We're fortunate to live within about 6 miles of Zuma Coffee in Marshall, NC with a bluegrass jam every Thursday evening. Zuma Coffee | NC Weekend | UNC-TV
I like Tony Rice as guitar legend,awesome singer (especially of Gordon Lightfoot tunes) and member of The New South. I'm more of a Norman Blake fan but I don't know if he's hardly strictly Bluegrass. That's just one of the musical genres he dwells and excels in. I have The White Brothers In Sweden on Rounder vinyl. Love the song Why You Been Gone So Long. Is that a Mickey Newbury tune?
I want to hear a bluegrass band covering Rush and King Crimson. I know there's a version of "Indiscipline" by John Cowan (called "Mr Banjo"); anyone know of more?
There was a Beatles bluegrass album: Charles River Valley Boys - Beatles Country. I kind of got more into bluegrass through all the '60s California musicians that were into it before they rocked out... Jerry Garcia, Chris Hillman, The Dillards, Clarence White and The Kentucky Colonels, Bernie Leadon. This lead back to The Osbourne Brothers, The Blue Sky Boys etc. etc. and I'm still getting into it.
Steve Gulley and New Pinnacle. Check them out. The real Mccoy. Saw Steve Gulley and band perform in the tiny town of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Go to those parts in southern Kentucky, and deep NC, Virginia, and Tennessee and you will see and experience real heritage bluegrass music.
the show, and people that first got me to love hearing bluegrass (besides Flatt & Scruggs on The Beverly Hillbillies)--Roy Clark...
I tip my toe a little into bluegrass & own a number of bluegrass CD's. The true bluegrass experience is of course seeing it played live. An exhilarating near religious experience - which is strange for an atheist to say.
Del McCoury has always been tops in my book. On the more novelty side of things, the first Hayseed Dixie album (of all AC/DC covers) is interesting and the Iron Horse - Fade to Bluegrass (Metallica covers) album is pretty good.
Strength in Numbers - you can't go wrong with Bela, Edgar, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, and Mark O'Connor.