Recommend some good bluegrass music for me, please? :)

Need some new tunes and figured someone on here can help me find some good bluegrass music to jam out to! Thanks! :2thumbsup:

 

There's some in my thread, and lots of other neat folk/acoustic stuff.

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=430354&highlight=roor's&f=229

 

the tony rice unit - manzanita
1978

 

Start with Bill Monroe, there are many collections of his music. And the DVD High Lonesome Sound is essential.
For traditional bluegrass besides Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, and early Flatt and Scruggs.Recommend Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall. Also try to get ahold of the Bluegrass collection from the Newport Folk Festival, early 1960s.
And for a more progressive sound that is still pure bluegrass, cannot do better than early Country Gentlemen, when the band was Charlie Waller, guitar;John Duffey, mandolin;Eddie Adcock ,banjo, and either Tom Gray or Ed Ferris, bass. Gray and Duffey were founding members of the Seldom Scene,also recommended.
And have to recommend Old And In The Way, the bluegrass ensemble with Jerry Garcia playing a great 5-string banjo.

 

I'm sure theres a bluegrass station on Pandora.

 

Thanks for the suggestions!

 

Trampled by Turtles!

 

Sarah Jarosz. She's a rather new artist.

 

Not new but I still can't get over Old and In the Way. Foghorn String Band - love those guys (that's old timey stuff). Love Del McCourey for traditional bg. Carolina Chocolate Drops. Earl Brothers.

 

Yonder Mountain String band.

Rumpke Mountain Boys

Trampled by Turtles

Cornmeal

Will post some videos when I have Better service.....

 

check out "old crow medicine show"

 

old school 24/7 streaming....roots of bluegrass..just go to the site and it streams automatically
http://www.sugarinthegourd.com/

 

Put this in your pipe and smoke it!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8l4lQmNMS0&feature=youtube_gdata_player"]YMSB - Two Hits and the Joint Turns Brown - YouTube

 

As far as the more traditional bands go, the Grascals might be among the best going right now. If you're looking for older stuff, I happen to love the Country Gentlemen (previously mentioned on here), the Seldom Scene (that's how it's spelled) and the Bluegrass Cardinals (since my father DID tour with them, but that's another story). JD Crowe isn't as well known outside of bluegrass as Earl Scruggs, but he's just as phenomenal with a banjo.

Seldom Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk9vhhGyRyo

JD Crowe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0Z5LY7LUQ&feature=related

Bluegrass Cardinals (ignore the stupid video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SoDJNNELzI

Country Gentlemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szAd9lMUXEA

The Grascals (an older recording, a little bit of personnel change since then, but they still sound great)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zStLJFyKxKg

If you can get those, you're off to a good start!

 

sorta Bluegrass/folk- Old Crow Medicine Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gX1EP6mG-E"]Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel [Official Music Video] - YouTube

Heard this song years and years ago and now just heard Darius Rucker from Hootie and the Blowfish remade it and it sucks.

Oh dear God, I just noticed someone else already suggested Old Crow, ah well, I tried. They are pretty awesome tho

 

No one has mentioned Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers.

 

Not technically bluegrass but very close on most songs.. telephone free landslide by camper van beethoven

 

^^- "Not technically ... but close" is always a good recommendation for music. Recommended music should expand horizons, not reenforce existing isolationism.

 

hot buttered rum

greensky bluegrass

leftover salmon (does that count?)

yonder mountain string band was mentioned earlier

so was cornmeal

mumford and sons