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1/29/2009 5:12:44 PM

I love Bluegrass and I have been to three different Bluegrass festivals.

1/29/2009 5:14:12 PM

The grass is bluer on the other side.

1/29/2009 5:14:53 PM

music festivals kick ass. never been to a bluegrass one though. i should go.

1/29/2009 5:15:18 PM

Do my eyes deceive me?

Has Ralph Stanley or the Stanley Brothers really gotten no mention in this thread?

You all fail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa8S2479p8U&feature=related

[Edited on January 29, 2009 at 5:30 PM. Reason : for reference.]

1/29/2009 5:29:35 PM

2x Ralph







1x Patty

1/29/2009 8:10:58 PM

Quote :

"avett brothers "

NOT Bluegrass.

1/29/2009 8:14:36 PM

and a little Andy:

1/29/2009 8:16:31 PM

also, old crow medicine show and that other one are not bluegrass...

1/29/2009 8:26:16 PM

anyone going to see Chatham County Line at the Berkeley tonight?

http://www.myspace.com/chathamcountyline

2/12/2009 10:28:25 AM

they'll be in asheville in the spring if you wanna really be down

2/12/2009 10:35:33 AM

bttt

1/11/2010 12:28:26 PM

For those of you in Raleigh tonight, got this in an e-mail from Pinecone today:

Quote :

"If you're a bluegrass musician or just a fan, tonight is your night! The bluegrass jam, which has been hosted for a long time by Dave Cauthorn at the Big Boss Tavern (formerly Horniblow's), is now hosted by Doug Pratt and Dave Hedrick, and it will now be held on the second and fourth Monday nights of each month beginning at 8 p.m. at the Six String Cafe, located at 1040 Buck Jones Road, beginning tonight. The Six String opened its doors in this new location on December 17, and David Sardinha graciously agreed to house the bluegrass jam when it needed a new home. Please head over tonight to enjoy the music and camaraderie found at an evening of bluegrass jamming. The jam welcomes players of all levels, as well as spectators to enjoy the music, and the food and drink!"

1/11/2010 12:32:15 PM

I enjoy Old Crow Medicine Show and Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, but they are a progressive spinoff of bluegrass.

1/11/2010 12:48:18 PM

plz to name other bands that sound similar to O.C.M.S. and the avett brothers

2/28/2010 8:06:52 AM

ROCKABILLY

2/28/2010 8:17:15 AM

LOL@bluegrass snobs in this thread. Bluegrass is really anti-snob music.

And that video of Earl Scruggs and Steve Martin on Letterman is one of my favorites.

2/28/2010 11:49:57 AM

^^^some people you might be interested in:


Langhorne Slim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElwMp0qK1xc&feature=related

Jessica Lea Mayfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_zKtE6lIQc

Barton Carroll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3h0K3_ACjI

O-Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGu7cG9ZfJo

Scott H. Biram
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA2vaG9ZmZc



Old Habits - Raleigh Locals and a damn good time if you can catch one of their shows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei2FCl0ZtNA

[Edited on February 28, 2010 at 12:35 PM. Reason : arrows]

2/28/2010 12:35:04 PM

^you can also add

Paleface, Mumford & Sons, Everybodyfields, Sam Quinn & the Japan Ten, to name a few more

2/28/2010 12:37:19 PM

Bow down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR-ZBOkeo_U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCcTf40k9xs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QRxOFR7ylI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpBdmYRWRP8

2/28/2010 1:14:26 PM

love it

2/28/2010 1:14:52 PM

Quote :

"LOL@bluegrass snobs in this thread. Bluegrass is really anti-snob music."

Agreed, but this snobbery goes two ways. Bluegrass, like jazz, was born largely out of the need for the poor and disenfranchised to create their own entertainment and control the beauty of something in their lives. the influx of rich white kids looking to get into "roots" music can appear to some to be a selling out or a shallow interpretation of the deeper feeling behind the originals.

It is precisely the difference between visiting, say, Ecuador and raving about how great it is as a weathy white tourist and coming away with some Indigeno clothing and feeling like you connected with the "people" of Ecuador and truly having lived there your entire life.


Now, I'm not saying that progressive spinoffs of Bluegrass can't be good bands or are inherently inauthentic, but music is always a tension between the new spin and the original (which is really just a riff off something else).



^^^^ good stuff, I really need to get back into the new music scene. Eighteen months in lower Alabama effectively isolated me from anything of the sort.

2/28/2010 2:14:12 PM

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Dale Ann Bradley, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper and The Claire Lynch Band are all going to be at the Pinecone Music Festival on 21 March in Raleigh.

Just FYI

3/3/2010 7:46:33 PM

i don't believe i have seen mention of merlefest...

3/3/2010 7:51:24 PM

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3/3/2010 11:17:50 PM

^I think Scott H. Biram is the best out of those that I listed. Im going to be looking into those pine cone festival artist you listed, but Ill be out of town for the actual show

3/3/2010 11:39:10 PM

is this the thread where a bunch of people come in and go "omg i love bluegrass, avett brothers are my favorite band"


:carlface:

3/3/2010 11:40:43 PM

maybe, I've kinda jumped in the thread late, but dont really plan to read the rest of it. It seems like the BLuegrass vs Americana vs Folk vs etc etc blah blah has been somewhat explained and people are just talking about artist similar to the avett brothers but not really . .. . . .. . .......... . .. .. . . . .. . . ..




its not really that hard of a music genre to explain or understand, but at the same time there are a lot of people that dont like to throw around labels and what not

3/3/2010 11:44:30 PM

hell ya. you should look up a group called The Major Sevens. They're from boone and they're FIRE. they're playing at Lincoln Theatre on March 25.

[Edited on March 3, 2010 at 11:51 PM. Reason : I CAN'T SPELL FOR SHIT]

3/3/2010 11:51:16 PM

I love me some bluegrass

3/4/2010 2:30:03 AM

IMO this is a perfect bluegrass song. Up-tempo, high skill solos, catchy lyrics. If only it was a bit longer.

Ricky Skaggs - Little Maggie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbeBRvCO7cw

3/4/2010 3:37:19 AM

My friend introduced me to Carolina Chocolate Drops and I love them! I've just begun listening to the bluegrass junction channel on sirius, it seems to be the only station to keep my interest during my commute. I highly recommend it if any of you are using sirius.

3/4/2010 7:18:05 AM

"omg i love bluegrass, avett brothers are my favorite band"


jk


^bluegrass junction is a fun station. XM subscribers (yes i know they are the same now, but this station is still XM only) have Folk Village, i think it's either 15 or 17, and it's a pretty good channel as well. They play a lot of slower stuff though, so you have to be in the mood for it more.

and if you want a mix of it all - bluegrass, american, alt. country, folk-rock then listen to the Loft.

3/4/2010 7:55:21 AM

it's 15. 17 is my favorite, prime country

3/4/2010 8:32:36 AM

10/29/2010 3:21:02 PM

Love bluegrass. Y'all should go to the bluegrass jam at Busy Bee

http://www.pinecone.org/sessions.html

10/29/2010 3:40:33 PM

LunaK and I were driving past the Birchmere in Alexandria last night and, lo and behold, Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mtn Boys were playing. It turned out to be a phenomenal concert, even if the good Dr did forget the lyrics to a few songs


The man was rocking it out for an 87 year old and I was fortunate enough to speak with him briefly and get a CD signed. Good times for an accidental find

12/12/2010 11:05:08 AM

me!

my dad plays the guitar and the mandolin, and i was raised on the music. big fan of the trio, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, and allison krauss, and steve martin.

also love the "americana" stuff and other things that stem from it or whatever. found some awesome bands while i was at merlefest this year and last year. <3 scythian, cadillac sky, and great big sea.

12/12/2010 12:02:24 PM

^^ 'twas a good time

^ luv Allison kraus

12/12/2010 1:23:33 PM

TTT, B.

9/7/2011 10:39:41 PM

nope. absolutely no one on the face of the planet likes bluegrass

9/7/2011 10:40:29 PM

The Grass Cats are really good.

9/7/2011 10:43:20 PM

Digging the Carolina Chocolate Drops channel on Pandora.

9/7/2011 10:44:06 PM

So, for those of you Bluegrass / Folk / New Folk / Americana / Alt. Country / Not-really-nameable-but-has-bluegrassy-instruments-in-it-but-don't-call-it-bluegrass fans I recommend to you the Blue Ridge Outdoors Trail Mix. Every month they post 12 - 20 free downloads of bands they've collected. Some are really good, most are enjoyable and I've only deleted one or two. Worth a listen for free. Most months have a theme, this one being the Bristol Rhythm and Roots Festival: http://www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/blue-ridge-music/trail-mix/

9/12/2011 11:20:30 AM

^ Nice!

9/12/2011 11:29:12 AM

^^ Good stuff

9/12/2011 12:00:02 PM

Quote :

"Wade Mainer, 104, a show-stopping banjo player from North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains who was a vital link in the evolution of bluegrass music, died Sept. 12 at his home in Flint, Mich. He had congestive heart failure. . . . He goes to the absolute taproots of this music,” country music historian Charles Wolfe told the Charlotte Observer in 2003. “He took the oldest traditional songs and translated them into sounds that could be recognized as blues and modern country.” Historically, Mr. Mainer’s musical technique was noteworthy, and he was said to have influenced a range of bluegrass performers including Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt. Mr. Mainer picked the banjo with his thumb and index finger — creating a softer and less-syncopated approach than the three-fingered style later popularized by Scruggs and Don Reno. At the same time, Mr. Mainer heralded a distinct change from the drop-thumb style known as clawhammer. . . . As his style of music was overshadowed by newer forms of bluegrass and country, Mr. Mainer moved to Flint in the early 1950s to work full time in an auto plant. He returned to entertainment after his retirement and became a popular attraction at folk festivals. In a 1986 concert at the National Museum of Natural History’s Baird Auditorium, Mr. Mainer drew praise for his dynamic musicianship in a program called “Living Legends of the Banjo.” Reviewing the show for The Post, critic Joe Sasfy wrote that Mr. Mainer “was the showman, ending the set on his feet, dancing and playing the banjo behind his back.” . . . “What we was playin’ in the ’30s was true country music — no electric instruments, no copyrights,” he once said. “Something’d happen and someone’d write a song about it — nobody owned it, nobody’d know who wrote it. The music just told a story.” "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/wade-mainer-banjo-pioneer-dies-at-104/2011/09/13/gIQA5sU0PK_story.html?wpisrc=emailtoafriend

9/13/2011 5:32:06 PM

whatever happened to SaabTurbo

9/13/2011 6:59:53 PM

Check out some Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet.

Also, Trampled by Turtles is more of the new grass out there. Little faster tempo and pretty fun music.

9/13/2011 10:18:58 PM