Unofficial Old Timey, Brother Duets, Bluegrass, Newgrass, Progressive acoustic thread

[kmiller1610]

I was going to put this in photo albums, but thought it deserved its own thread.

Most folks think anything with a banjo is bluegrass. Here's Alison Brown on banjo playing some jazzgrass music, "I'm Naked and I'm going to Glasgow"

[kmiller1610]

Here's a modern update of the Brother Duet with Thile and Daves

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/a...l-daves-1.html

[Blueneck]

Never heard of "Jazzgrass" before. Interesting stuff. I'm not a fan of electric pianos, though. They sound.....fake to me for some reason.

[Blueneck]

I don't know if this counts as "authentic" bluegrass, but I love the old funky hillbilly shit.

[kmiller1610]

Blue,

That's traditional bluegrass, not really an old form of music. Put together by Bill Monroe from many other forms. No drums. No Piano. High range singing. Mandolin, Guitar, Fiddle, Banjo, Bass. The big difference between earlier forms and bluegrass are musical breaks where players show off their licks (borrowed from Jazz). Here's the Big Mon himself.

[kmiller1610]

Here's Tony Rice, now considered the finest bluegrass guitarist in the world. But for a number of years he was producing spacegrass / jazzgrass based on David Grisman's Dawg music. Some of it sounds like elevator music.

[kmiller1610]

Here's David Grisman playing some of his highly original "Dawg Music" and yes, that's Tony Rice on guitar and Mark O'Connor on fiddle. This stuff cooks. I would say this is as opposite to modern country as you can get. Instruments rule!

[kmiller1610]

A modern progressive acoustic group doing bluegrass. The Punch Brothers are the most technically proficient acoustic band around. All the players are under 30. This song is not typical of them, just sort of a "Yes, we do bluegrass too!" sampler. But these guys do everything from classical (Bach) to indy-rock (radiohead) and everything in-between.

[kmiller1610]

We need a sample of old-timey, but I have not studied it. Davo?

[kmiller1610]

There are a lot of bluegrass fans who HATE Thile and the Punch Brothers. Too many notes. Too fast. Not enough "feel."

So here's somebody from the other end of the spectrum, John Hartford, who was part country boy, part hippie playing something simple with "feel."