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

I play bluegrass on my banjo.

Mike

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

"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.

 

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.

 

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

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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!

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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