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

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

 

I grew up in the NYC area before Bill Haley and Alan Freed made R&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&R, ~40's black blues which includes a lot of what could be considered the birth of doo wop and R&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!

 

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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.

 

<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>

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

'bout all I got..

Paul

 

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/

 

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.

 

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?

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

<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

 

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.

 

Al right, do I see a moonshine fueled hoedown around the pig pit at the Drags ?? 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

 

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?

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

 

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?

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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."

 

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} the stuff he played for me i liked,.....plus he's got a little family history with it,so the stories were cool too

 

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.

 

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
JimV