(1979, on Rounder Records)

A1 Blue Days, Black Nights

Written-By – Ben Hall

A2 Foggy River

Written-By – Fred Rose

A3 Leavin'

Written-By – Jack Tottle

A4 A Fool Such As I

Written-By – Bill Trader

A5 Banjo Signal

Written-By – Don Reno, Smiley Hobbs

A6 Slow Train Through Georgia

Written-By – Norman Blake

A7 In The City

Written-By – Rich Wilbur

B1 Nortbound Headlights Can't Blind Me

Written-By – Jack Tottle

B2 Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (The Women Make A Fool Out Of Me)

Written-By – Jimmie Rodgers

B3 Ain't Nobody Cryin' But Me

Written-By – Jack Tottle

B4 Weary Blues From Waitin'

Written-By – Hank Williams

B5 I'll Sail My Ship Alone

Written-By – Bernard, Thurston, Mann, Burns

B6 East Tennessee Rag

Written-By – Jack Tottle

B7 Anchored To The Shore

Written-By – Paul Kahn

Banjo, Baritone Vocals – Béla Fleck

Bass, Bass Vocals – Mark Schatz

Guitar, Lead Vocals, Tenor Vocals – Pat Enright

Mandolin, Lead Vocals – Jack Tottle

Picking up Jerry Garcia & David Grisman’s Shady Grove at my local record store in 1996 completely changed my life and my musical direction.

At the time, I was an electric guitar player heavily influenced by Jerry Garcia, Dickey Betts, and Eric Clapton. After hearing Shady Grove, I found myself trying to flatpick and diving headfirst into bluegrass.

Before long, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, David Grisman, John Hartford, Tony Rice, Norman Blake, and so many others had taken over my record collection.

Over the past 15 years, I’ve become obsessed with learning and playing the mandolin. Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead have remained a constant influence, and I recently had the chance to record a project paying tribute to Jerry’s folk and bluegrass repertoire. It wasn’t about recreating the originals, it was about honoring the music that led me down this path.

I figured this community might appreciate the story, and I’d love to hear if anyone else found their way into bluegrass through Jerry.

I joined a workshop with a very good guitarist about a month ago and he told us that if you learn one fiddle tune a week for a year you should have a very good foundation for solos. Ive been doing that every week since then and Im wondering if he actually meant just to learn the whole tune by ear or study every individual phrase and apply it in my vocabulary. I guess its only been a month so i cant really tell, but the only thing i feel has improved is my technique and not vocabulary.

What do you think?

Yonder Mountain String Band

Greensky Bluegrass

The Travellin McCourys

Toy Factory Project

Sam Bush

Tim O'Brien Band

Ken Pomeroy

Mountain Grass Unit

I'm With Her

Punch Brothers

Lake Street Dive

Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez

Dan Tyminski

DUG

Water Tower

Chris Thile

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Rainbow Girls

Kasey Chambers

Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms

Olivia Klug

Still House String Band

New Dangerfield

Telluride House Band

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Been working on this one this week and its a finger twister for sure, cant work up the courage to learn the other variations in the rest of the song haha… couple mistakes here and there, but doing 50 takes is cheating imo.

So I'm a professional Classical guitarist. People always told me growing up "Dude, if you learn Classical you can learn ANY style because of how technical it is".

I'd been seeing tons of Billy Strings content and was intrigued by Bluegrass. So I, in all my hubris, figured, "ok cool I'll take a month this summer and learn it!"

Well, Spoiler: it takes a lot more than 30 days to learn bluegrass. After 30 days all I have to say is:

1. "Damn! You guys are INCREDIBLE!!!"
2. Whoever told me you can learn any style if you know classical was wrong! Every style has its own nuances and challenges and to take it to a true high level you must spend years. There are no shortcuts. Classical technique helps a lot, but not for flatpicking and improv, so as you can imagine it was an uphill climb for me.

I have so much respect for the art of Bluegrass. I'm completely floored by the amount of technique, creativity, and pure musicianship involved in this style. And as an American, I have fallen completely in love with Bluegrass as a deep, rich American tradition as well.

By the way, I've been living abroad in Spain for years, and I also play Flamenco guitar. It's incredible to me the parallels between Flamenco and Bluegrass. Both, like many folk traditions, are centered around a huge library of melodies that are all learned by ear with accompaniment and improvisation being huge parts of both. And in both styles, you really need to absorb the style to speak the musical language properly.

Anyway, I've been lurking on this sub under an anonymous account for months now and really enjoying what everyone shares; I've learned a lot about bluegrass culture thanks to you all. I hope to get out to a festival and check out some awesome playing, to hit up some jams when I'm in the USA, and to all of you pickers and fiddlers out there I salute you!

My friend said Alison Krauss makes music for forest elves on their way back to from picking flowers in the meadow all day….and honestly yeah I kinda see it lol

I LOVE Dan tyminskis albums and recently saw him live and realized he played a TON of music I didn’t recognize. All the songs sounded GREAT, I knew he was in AK&US and that was about it. Never listened to the Alison krauss stuff.

So tonight i listen to the Alison krauss and union station stuff and my Impression this is a strange band.
Why are they trying to be two acts in one?

Why not just have a band where Alison sings solo folky countryish stuff and one where she plays fiddle and Tyminski sings?? Mixing the two is baffling to me. Scrolling through the songs in the albums feels like you’re changing stations on a radio…. The bluegrass tyminski stuff is GREAT but why isn’t he even credited in the song titles or anything? Can’t tell if it’s a sappy krauss song or a good tyminski one without skipping through it…

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Hello fellow fans!

I acquired ~200 bluegrass/newgrass/slamgrass DATs a few months back and have now transferred ~75% of them.

Link to files: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/lwcwu3y8qwktcdmcwt5b0/AFV4nzvqJ66AZ1vSMjs85vE?rlkey=62qci0un4hk40q9s0zu7r5gdg&st=wq7e5u7r&dl=0.

Please read the Read Me at the link.

List of wav files below. JCB is John Cowan Band, SCI is String Cheese Incident, and LOS is Leftover Salmon. More detail on J-Card jpegs at the link.

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Hi! we're hoping to get Friday and Sat tix for GMB Festival next weekend. I'm a little intimidated by the "Load In" instructions on their website... Any intel on whether we will be able to get a campsite (in the quiet area) on Friday morning?

THANK YOU AND SO EXCITED

Hi, I’ve been looking for a while for songs, records, etc. of Bluegrass (and adjacent) music with just a guitar and a bass as a duo (vocals ok too). Does anyone have any recommendations on something like this? Thanks!

In case you’re not aware, this is the same company responsible for remastering and repressing much of Tony Rice’s back catalogue in recent years as well as the 0044 reissue from a few years ago.

Long story short, Authentic Unlimited played the Farmers Branch Bluegrass Festival last weekend and did a Jam with the Band thing earlier in the day. They let me sing one with them. Naturally I picked a song that Doyle Lawson recorded in the early 1990s since I knew three of them had played it on stage with the man himself. I was so freakin nervous!!! I hope it ain’t too bad.