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 Jeff Kaplan |
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January 24, 2011 08:12:13am |
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Re: Hey Mando or others into bluegrass |
Del McCoury certainly is one of the best traditional bands.
Here's a list of a bunch of bluegrassy bands on the archive:
.357 String Band
Acoustic Syndicate
Arthur Lee Land
Assembly of Dust
Back Forty
Bad Livers
Barefoot Manner
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Big Daddy Bluegrass Band
Big Smith
Blue Turtle Seduction
Blueground Undergrass
Borrowed Angels
Brittany Reilly
Broke Mountain Bluegrass Band
Butterjive
Cadillac Sky
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Cast Iron Filter
Chatham County Line
Cindy Woolf
Cornmeal
Cross-eyed Rosie
Danny Barnes
Del McCoury Band
Dirtfoot
Don Reno
Dread Clampitt
Flat Mountain Girls
Girls, Guns and Glory
Green Mountain Grass
Greensky Bluegrass
Hackensaw Boys
Hayseed Dixie
Uncle Earl
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AltheaRose |
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January 24, 2011 10:13:29pm |
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Re: Hey Mando or others into bluegrass |
Yet sadly, my son says Del McCoury sounds like "Steve Urkel passing a stone."
Thanks for this list! I love bluegrass, but definitely didn't know all of those. Btw, not on the archives, but I've been listening lately to singer/clawhammer banjo player Abigail Washburn (of Uncle Earl). She has some neat work rooted in a haunting, envelope-pushing combination of old time, bluegrass, and Chinese music (she's lived in China) -- both solo and as part of Sparrow Quartet, with Bela Fleck, Casey Driessen, and cellist Ben Sollee. (I think she may be married now to Bela Fleck.) Cool stuff, worth checking out.
Incidentally, I don't agree with my son on Del McCoury. (Oh, OK, maybe there's a germ of truth in it ...) But it does have an unexpected side benefit:
Me: So, what do you want me to put on? Hmmm, lots of bluegrass here ...
Kiddo: Noooo! Please, GRATEFUL DEAD!
This post was modified by AltheaRose on 2011-01-25 05:13:29
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robthewordsmith |
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January 25, 2011 01:25:07am |
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Re: Hey Mando or others into bluegrass |
I really love Del. What's wonderful about the Archive is being able to sample performances across decades. He's pretty much kept the same aw-shucks banter going over the years - 'well I just about remembered the chords for that one', 'we haven't played that in a while, folks', 'maybe we'll get around to that one' - when you just know they've rehearsed and perfected everything right down to the tips of their immaculate fingernails.
Uncle Earl was an early non-Dead discovery on the Archive - don't listen to them that much but always enjoy it when I do. I haven't explored Abigail Washburn's solo career but it really sounds like I ought to very soon. Fellow Gerl Kristin Andreassen was burrowed deep in my brain with this one for a while:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EELEjeYzfjM
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