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I don't really know anything about bluegrass, but every now and then something jumps out at me. Here is one of those things. My question is, is this a specific type or subgenre of bluegrass? I'd like to check out more along this line, but would also like to avoid "You Are My Sunshine" crosspicked at 300bpm.
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10-16-2019 05:08 PM
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I don't know, but do you think this is similar?
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Originally Posted by Jehu
If you haven't checked out Dave Grisman and his Dawg Music, start there (Quintet '80 is a classic). It's a glorious collision of bluegrass and gypsy jazz. Others along that line would include the Tony Rice Unit, Mike Marshall, and Darryl Anger.
Bryan Sutton is more of a straight-ahead bluegrass guitarist, probably thought of as the foremost in the genre these days.
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The only bluegrass I could ever get into was the jazz-fusion-esque that Bela Fleck and the Flecktones did.
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
I know the snippet I linked to in my original post was quite short, but I guess what I'm referring to is the more kind of atmospheric, bluesy end of bluegrass... as opposed to the traditional-country-at-breakneck-speed end.
Are these considered stylistic differences within the genre? Or is it all just bluegrass in a similar way that for example, in 50s jazz some tunes are ballads and others are rhythm changes based?
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Originally Posted by FatPick
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Originally Posted by Jehu
I play in an eclectic Americana trio, and always include some bluegrass in the repertoire. A couple recent tunes we cover...
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There aren't really subgenres in bluegrass, it's bluegrass or it ain't! Not to be confused with old-time, country, or just plain folk, although all those categories can be played bluegrass-style, as can other songs. The bluegrassers have taken over songs like Georgia and Summertime and like to play them. Tony Rice used to do those two and also played Shenandoah a lot. He also took over many of Gordon Lightfoot's tunes, which are probably 'folk', and played them bluegrass style.
I suppose, as someone suggested, Dawg music is a sort of subgenre or off-shoot of bluegrass. It's really an attempt at incorporating jazz sounds, or a jazz feel, to acoustic bluegrass-type music. Whether it was any good depends on one's taste, I guess.
Bryan Sutton is certainly one of the premier pickers but there are plenty of others. David Grier, for instance. Here, start with this and there are four more to go! Everyone's at it these days!
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Incidentally, just to show I'm not all mouth and trousers, I used to do bluegrass. I did this slower a couple of years ago and enjoyed myself so much it went on for ages... so I tweaked it up a notch (electronically) and made this. Enjoy or turn it off :-)
That's why I do jazz now, I can relax
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Originally Posted by Zina
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I like this. Suzanne Cox younger :-)
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Martin, (who happens to be my all time favorite guitar player) has a lot of varied material over the years, and some of it might be what you are looking for.
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Bluegrass isn't that old. The style was popularized, if not originated, by Bill Monroe and his band, the Bluegrass Boys. He somewhat changed the way older music was played, and his style became known as bluegrass. He also wrote many of the classic bluegrass repertoire tunes.
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Last one, promise. This is a great trad song.
By the way, the girl on the bass is Bryn Davies. She's also a cellist and a pianist - and a jazz major from Berklee. Oh, yes :-)
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This is not bluegrass, but I never get tired of listening to it. Tiny Moore made me start building instruments, because I couldn't find any 5-string electric mandolins to buy. He was truly a great player.
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This was written as a rock song (by Englishman Tony Hazzard, who wrote songs recorded by the Hollies, Manfred Mann, and Herman's Hermits but has become a bluegrass staple. I've always loved the chorus
"She walks through the corn leading down by the river,
Her hair shone like gold in the hot morning sun
She took all the love that a poor boy could give her
And left me to die like a fox on run."
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Originally Posted by Jehu
In person she is painfully shy young woman. Celebrity and that level of social reticence are not a good mix. I wish her the best.
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I wasn't going to but I think I'll put this in. It's a jazz-style reharm of the classic 'I Am A Pilgrim'. I'm not sure if this kind of thing is a subgenre of bluegrass but I suppose it could be. I just did it this afternoon.
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Always loved Alison Krauss and Union Station. Different, more modern instrumental sound. Lots of backbeat, subtle, atmospheric stuff. Best dobro playing you'll ever hear.
There are other who are more modern than them in the genre as well. Honestly, there's a lot of diversity in the style. More than specific artists etc, enter a specific performance you like into apology, and let the algorithm do its thing. That's where you find the good stuff.
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Originally Posted by matt.guitarteacher
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Thanks for all of the suggestions, folks... looks like I've got some listening to do!
I'm a bit surprised to hear that there aren't subgenres in bluegrass like there are in, well, every single genre I can think of. (Or is bluegrass itself the subgenre?) I know it might seem silly to harp on about arbitrary categories, but I was really just hoping to avoid something like having to listen to Wes play a thousand 'Surrey With A Fringe On Top's before stumbling upon a 'Unit 7', if you see what I mean.
In the meantime, more Molly!
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There are sub genres for sure . Honestly I don't know what they're called . I've heard people talk about Newgrass. There's gonna be a lot of overlap with things like Americana etc.
Honestly, Labels for sub genres and things are largely lost on people who listen to this specific music being categorized , maybe more so than others. The categorization of music into smaller and smaller subgenres is a pretty modern thing. I think it mostly came about with the advent of iTunes etc. It makes it a lot easier for people to find some more things they like.
Several years ago, I had a conversation with my oldest son in which we talked about the music I grew up with . He's a musician too and a fan of different types . Anyway, he started mentioning all these labels for very specific subgenre niches. I guess I sounded like one of those music snobs when I told him basically that "we just called it music or rock etc. We didn't have all those labels for it back then ".
He'd gotten all of those labels off of the descriptions on iTunes. I don't really have a problem with that , but it does point to a very real phenomena: the people who know the most about a type of music maybe don't really know what it's called in a super specific way.
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Bluegrass is a subgenre of country music. Music evolves, and bluegrass has (sort of) subdivided into subgenres, but I'm not fluent enough to distinguish most of them. To me, it's all bluegrass - banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, bass, and sometimes dobro, the instrumentation is the primary distinguishing feature. You don't see pianos or steel guitars in bluegrass bands.
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Originally Posted by matt.guitarteacher
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