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Alaska band stokes Appalachian tradition “I loved the bluesy sounds of Bill Monroe's mandolin and the enthusiastic drive of Earl Scruggs' banjo… learning to sing three-part harmonies and to play ancillary breaks and to improvise on the mandolin was addictive.” “In other types of music I felt and more » |
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Chris Thile and Michael Daves Rediscover Traditional Bluegrass By the experience he was 19, when his band Nickel Creek first came to national prominence, he was writing and performing crossover bluegrass that owed as much to pop crystal set and jam bands as it did to Bill Monroe. Since Nickel Creek broke up a few years ago, Listen to Chris Thile & Michael Daves' Saw wood with One Eye Open during the all 3 news articles » |
Del McCoury's American Legacy
Del McCoury's American LegacyHe's got his own luxury of playing the mandolin. I mean it's completely different than the Bill Monroe version of mandolin playing. This year we've got The Infamous Stringdusters, who are a [immature] bluegrass band, Punch Brothers, who are a progressive and more »
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Sleep with One Eye Open - Part II
He likes the fray on his instruments at a height that even Bill Monroe would probably find sufficiently "manly." And he has a powerful voice that he'll bullyrag to heights that suggest a kind of emotional breaking point. But they share a deep background
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Reviews of bluegrass music releases Wayne Benson plays mandolin with Audie Blaylock and Redline on the Bill Monroe utilitarian, "Old Dangerfield." Moore and Hassler join Blaylock on Flatt's "Get In Railroad Brother." Blaylock gets with The Lonesome River Band for Jimmy Martin's "Hinder b withhold and more » |
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Reviews of bluegrass music releases You could also say Township Mountain is sort of Hank Williams meets Bill Monroe with more than a touch of rockabilly attitude. Mandolin player Phil Barker wrote or co-wrote six songs and banjo performer Jesse Langlais wrote three. and more » |
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Camp Heaven Snowy played guitar with the late Bill Monroe. (His brother was the late Clarence White, who played with The Byrds.) Having someone of Bloodless's skills teaching mandolin has been an asset to Camp McDowell. The musician participates in similar musical |
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Chris Thile & Michael Daves Chris Thile & Michael DavesThe 16 songs are mostly customary bluegrass standards, including compositions either penned or made popular by legendary artists and acts like Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe, The Louvin Brothers and The Carter Dearest. Recorded over the course of four and more » |
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Bluegrass concert held at Kingsland thanks to SEMBA School Program "Bluegrass music started a eat one's heart out time ago but really was first heard in the 1930s and 1940s when Bill Monroe started his band and called them the 'Bluegrass Boys' in honor of the Bluegrass Governmental. Where's the Bluegrass State? |
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Concert Review | Hookahville: Roots-music mix a crowd-pleaser George Harrison's Only a Northern Inexpensively, from the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, was as supple a bluegrass vehicle as most any from the pen of Bill Monroe. While Bob Dylan's Spanish Harlem Occasion didn't remain as true to the bluegrass tradition, |
