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Superabounder
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
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Posted - 10/06/2007 :  08:32:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Anyone have any suggestions for some Bluegrass to go out and get? Something with some sick guitar and banjo...preferably a little better on the sonic quality side. Don't know where to start.



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trobrianders
> Teenager of the Year <

Papua New Guinea
3302 Posts

Posted - 10/06/2007 :  08:50:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
coastline I'd like a tip on this too. You're into some Bluegrass, right?

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houstonguthrie
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187 Posts

Posted - 10/06/2007 :  09:11:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
My favorites are

Bill Monroe (of course)
Jimmy Martin - (gotta hear Freeborn Man and You Don't Know My Mind)
Vern Williams Band -
Doc Watson

Doc might not be considered "bluegrass" really but he is an amazing picker - it's close enough. He did one with David Grisman called "Doc and Dawg" that is really really good

Edited by - houstonguthrie on 10/06/2007 09:11:46
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trobrianders
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Papua New Guinea
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Posted - 10/06/2007 :  12:27:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
How about Mark Lemhouse? Hasn't he dabbled?

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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <

USA
3111 Posts

Posted - 10/06/2007 :  13:15:41  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Mrs. Coastline and I listen to Allison Krauss & Union Station quite a bit. (Union Station were the "Soggy Bottom Boys" in the movie "O Brother Where Art Thou?") Otherwise, I'm not that much into bluegrass.


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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~

Belize
5305 Posts

Posted - 10/06/2007 :  15:39:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Check out these guys. I have seen them three times.

http://www.myspace.com/trampledbyturtles

http://www.trampledbyturtles.com/press_single.asp?PressID=6

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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~

Spain
2674 Posts

Posted - 10/08/2007 :  07:15:13  Show Profile  Click to see Newo's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
my guitarist is a bluegrass maniac. He likes Old Crow Medicine Show a lot.

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kfs
= Cult of Ray =

USA
889 Posts

Posted - 10/08/2007 :  07:34:30  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I like "Wagon Wheel" by Old Crow Medicine Show. I haven't heard
anything else by them.
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houstonguthrie
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187 Posts

Posted - 10/08/2007 :  07:42:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I got into them for a while - I tended to like the slower and medium tempo ones more than the big hoe-downs

great harmonica playing too which you don't usually hear in a bluegrass band
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~

Spain
2674 Posts

Posted - 10/08/2007 :  07:49:06  Show Profile  Click to see Newo's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
I've got their last one, Big Iron World. I like their name too, it comes from the popular nickname for the government in Russian and Eastern European countries.

One band I've never heard but would love to just from their name: Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers.

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tobafett
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
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Posted - 10/08/2007 :  11:30:27  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
second bill monroe for old school, true bluegrass.
del mccoury follows bill monroe's style
ralph stanley is another giant of old good bluegrass
ricky skaggs is his disciple.

but you absolutely need to get some Flatt and Scruggs. of course their most famous hit (after the Beverly Hillbillies theme), Foggy Mtn. Breakdown, is a classic.
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