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Can we talk bluegrass in here? I just love most all bluegrass, and especially some of the contemporary people playing very traditional grass. I saw Michael Cleveland a few months ago an he blew my mind. He's mostly blind and probably one of the best fiddle players to have ever lived. Here he is playing with Doc when he was a kid-he's only gotten better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrYxk5g8peQ These guys just won 'Best emerging artist' or whatever at IBMA and they're stellar and fit my idea that bluegrass is best played by large people with goatees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SWWUpuon_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv5w3MeknnI Despite being a heathen, I love some good bluegras gospel. Not their usual banjo player but he's great, whoever he is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI5UWtzKe-0 And a friend's band that's getting out there. They play with Tyler Childers a good bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcSagt1DcrM My favorite of Ralph Stanley's lead singers who died too soon (in like an actually Hatfield and McCoy family feud), Roy Lee Centers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5OC2nzFuA Singing lead there, on what is one of the finest bluegrass albums there is.
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DogoDogo posted:A favorite bluegrass artist of mine is Abigail Washburn. She studied Mandarin in college and lived in China for a while, so her music is traditional-sounding American bluegrass with the occasional Chinese lyrics or instrumentation thrown in. It’s pretty effing cool, and she’s continued to be a huge activist for US-Chinese relations and cultural exchange throughout her career. She’s also married to Béla Fleck, for some added bluegrass bona fides, and they have been recording together a lot in recent years. https://youtu.be/nuNY876GJLg https://youtu.be/ay2ql55qWq4 https://youtu.be/EgegmaJO03c I actually got into bluegrass via old-time music. I played clawhammer banjo and when I moved I couldn’t find anyone that played old time so I started going to jams with a bunch of old guys that played bluegrass and old country and had been for 60 years. It’s definitely a music that is infinitely better live and in person-somehow all acoustic instruments that dont plug just sound better, and the improvisation that happens on breaks live is really great. There’s a real jazz and blues influence in that regard. Most bluegrass bands don’t ever record half the old Bill Monroe and Stanley Bros. stuff they stick in at live shows too.
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Oct 3, 2018 22:33
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Since it’s about time to get spooky, how about a Honky Tonk Halloween https://youtu.be/dA8merRnRjU
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Oct 27, 2018 15:51
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FlaxAxis posted:Here's a song I really enjoyed by some Johnson City cats: I first heard Tim O'Brien's version of that song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m7kRZYHIFc which I love. It always reminds me of this Utah Phillips song "Orphan Train" played here by the magnificent Dry Branch Fire Squad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mMwlx2dOzc I could listen to Ron Thomason banter all day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK9Fp_taQTA You can't be a real bluegrass band if you don't wear bad suits and tacky ties.
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Mar 23, 2019 02:01
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Don Walser has been on my mind lately and was an incredible old fashioned Western Swing yodel guy from west Texas who I forgot I loved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdNht2kiSNQ Johnny Gimble was a fantastic Texas fiddler too. Playing one of my favorite tunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgd5g1tLPtQ And because Roy Clark was a damned hot picker and always fantastic and I like it with the words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k59g3pX-C_s
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He also was a two time national banjo champion and a fine 3-finger and clawhammer picker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDScmSdlJ0U And a pretty good fiddler as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPK-zaQd1jE Not sure there was anything with strings he couldn't play.
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Sep 6, 2019 15:54
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Every time I rediscover Gillian Welch I am amazed. She has such a great sound.
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XBenedict posted:It’s not, specifically. But in terms of festival relevance, it’s dumb. Yeah, they’re decent bands, but ffs they haven’t had a hit in a decade at least.  folk stuff because it wasn't about chasing hits  . I'd agree OCMS's best days are likely behind them, but I enjoyed their most recent album. I also like bluegrass and old-time music more than most people, so YMMV. I think they're in a hard place of trying to appeal to the mainstream country crowd that knows them for 'Wagon Wheel' and wants a more pop sound (and no doubt pay the bills and fills up venues) and the people like me that would like them to go back to their roots and dig out some more Frank Proffitt songs and not ham it up quite so much.
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https://youtu.be/oPwq0YoOy4g It’s never too late to blow up your TV
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kenny powerzzz posted:I can’t believe I didn’t think to share this here. Whitey is live playing Waylon. https://youtu.be/RClLT7UDneg I read Whitey as Whitley the first time I read that and got real excited about Keith Whitley playing Waylon and then I remembered Keith Whitley is dead  That guy is pretty good though.
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The Skeeters are pretty good and very Waylon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDxv-GeJsNM Steve Earle is good too. 'The Mountain' is a fantastic album- a little bluegrassy. 'Copperhead Road' and 'Guitar Town' are both still great albums 25 years later.
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May 1, 2020 18:15
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Happy Hippo posted:Um, huh? I wouldn't call The Mountain "a little bluegrassy." It's a straight up bluegrass album. I mean, he's backed by the Del McCoury Band on it.
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May 2, 2020 19:30
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That's very sad. I really loved Harlem River Blues. I did not realize Steve Earle has been married 7 times.
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Aug 24, 2020 14:27
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Nice new (to me) track of Dirk Powell's latest album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ciIQSJqi4Q Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Oct 6, 2020 |
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Oct 6, 2020 03:39
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Pham Nuwen posted:There are two threads with "folk" in the title but I thought I'd try here first since the most recent post mentions Dylan... I've been slowly iterating through folk and folk-adjacent music over the last few years (after getting started via Stan Rogers) and I'm hoping I might get some more recommendations for similar stuff. Here's what I listen to a lot: E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiUFxtfU950 Martin Simpson is good too. Andy Irvine and Paul Brady are great, a little more irish trad than folk, but real good. There are several albums of the Transatlantic Sessions that I really enjoy and have been a great exposure to new artists. You might like Ewan McLennan, he's a little more 'angry guy with a guitar at the folk club' though. Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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This is kind of a wild shot but I don't guess there's really a bluegrass/roots/folk thread. I'm trying to find a version of this song I heard *somewhere* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_7RE5sdVe0 It was really super upbeat bluegrass gospel like Wade Mainer or something. I very well may have heard it at a jam but it's been stuck in my brain. The 'I'm Satisfied' part was just a wild gospel howl and it was fantastic. E: wade mainer did a song called 'Satisfied' but it's not that one. Not helpful that there like half a dozen gospel songs all called 'Satisfied' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFY_tiKbJjo e2: the version I am thinking of had this kind of gospel energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mImNTqSOLrI&t=185s Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Mar 31, 2023 |
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Mar 31, 2023 02:20
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I would love to see Marty Stuart I bet he definitely puts on a great show. Lyle Lovett and Dwight are two others I definitely would like to see. Dwight yoakam was here recently but I missed it 
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Bobby Osborne died Got to see him and JD Crowe in Richmond back in college. Bobby put on a great show then even at almost 80. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVjbfYe-sTI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vwYtwkh03Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqc34RgKS8Y E: Dang Jesse McReynolds died on Friday apparently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT5kU-Ff0s0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHSKPRyqVk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-MBMfdihLU Not sure much of anyone is really left from that first generation of bluegrass musicians born in the 20’s and 30’s. Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Jun 28, 2023 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqho5R9pZqw And the rest of the Harlan County, USA soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaYz5B1emGU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-38wA4A-SQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj2iGAifSNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Eqt2v1uYU
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I sense an argument being settled in facebook comments over rich men north of richmond. Oh yeah if that's the case, the Hazel Dickens and James McMurtry ones are great. 'Can't make it here anymore' is almost 20 years old and sounds like it could have been written 2 years ago because not much has changed Some more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRc9WfKT_c4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir5tKeWMSIA
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stealie72 posted:Ooh, are we doing Canadian industries dying now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBEA5e3rq1w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIvWTcWDNiY Heck let’s go Scottish too, since so much of white southern music has its roots in Scotland and the north of England. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrdl4ijru8o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk-TVpUy_Zk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6B6-J8MQY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4VBGhsNaXo And some whatever you call Billy Bragg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUA3RU4B8E
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Elephunk posted:This is so good! Love Billy's little solo and his tasteful licks.
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lsculpt23 posted:A question for the thread: does anyone have bluegrass recs similar to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYQlhLEJ5jc Or these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjINLtri88I I think something like 'Indie Bluegrass' is probably the word you're looking for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2QjEgOtCAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tghe2lD4YM Not sure you'd like this, but everyone should like The Fox Hunt. They were freakin great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViXCmo0jMQA&t=396s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbk313RNZWw
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Bald Stalin posted:His originals like All Used Up are good. I have a copy of the little red songbook. Yeah he wrote several songs that have entered the bluegrass/folk canon, most notably Rock Salt and Nails which JD Crowe, Flatt & Scruggs, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and The Band, Waylon Jennings, Tyler Childers and many others have covered and which I imagine paid most of his bills. All Utah Phillips songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84ije0CyGK8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOm5jwWDcVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPsqiPJh3io&t=252s Starts playing at 7:45, but listening to Ron Thomason is always great and he tells a funny utah phillips story. Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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Bonzo posted:RIP Mojo Nixon
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Willie lookin old as hell cuz, well, I guess he is. There’s a gay porn star or two among the cast of that video, lol
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If you like Nimrod Workman, definitely check out Frank Proffitt, Roscoe Holcomb, and also the Harlan County USA soundtrack (and even better watch the documentary)
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