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bluegrass

Rose’s Pawn Shop

February 10, 2007

I recently came across an amazing bluegrass, rocknroll, western, rockabilly, punk band from L.A. called Rose’s Pawn Shop. Their sound is very familiar yet completely different from anything I’ve heard before. Rose’s Pawn Shop does a wonderful job of taking aspects of all sorts of styles and making something that is new and all their [...]

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Check out Crooked Still in the U.K.

January 16, 2007

Crooked Still is an excellent new acoustic bluegrass act that I’ve been spending a lot of time listening too lately. I love them because they seem introduce a new perspective on the songs they play. They’re singer has one of the sweetest voices I’ve ever heard. I just got the following email from Crooked Still’s [...]

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More On Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

October 10, 2006

Joel Selvin has a fantastic review of this year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle.  The article also has some great photos.  I’m going to figure out a way to make it to this festival next year come hell or high water.  Hopefully they will break the “you can only play once [...]

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Weather On The Wood Chords and Lyrics

August 14, 2006

I really love the South Austin Jug Band Song Weather On the Wood from their latest album Dark and Weary World. This weekend I figured it out on the guitar. I was having a hard time finding the lyrics so I had to transpose them myself. I thought I’d share the lyrics and chords. Its [...]

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Realtime Rockygrass

July 28, 2006

I’ve been really impressed at the online representation that this summer’s music festivals have been receiving. If you want to get some (semi) realtime reports/reviews of Rockygrass, point your browser at festivalpreviewblog.blogspot.com/ who also did a wonderful job of covering Telluride Bluegrass Festival and Greyfox Bluegrass Festival. Rockygrass starts today and goes thru Sunday and [...]

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Pete Wernick

July 11, 2006

One of my favorite bluegrass acts is Hotrize! They were so imensely talented and funny. Every second of their show was completely entertaining and fun. Hotrize is where I first heard the sounds of banjo virtuoso Pete Wernick (a.k.a. Dr Banjo. It seems like I keep hearing all sorts of things about Pete Wernick lately. [...]

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Sam Bush Music Video

June 27, 2006

I’ve heard most of the songs on the new Sam Bush album Laps In Seven (named after the time signature in which Sam’s dog drinks water). Laps In Seven is a foot tapper for sure and like all of Sam’s stuff its very enjoyable. I like Sam’s music because it seems to evolve over time. [...]

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Telluride Bluegrass 2006

June 22, 2006

I just got back from the 33rd annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival and all I can say is wow! This was one of the best if not the best festival I’ve attended (haven’t missed one since 1998)! Every day of the festival hosted incredible music, friends and fun. It was cloudy on Thursday and Friday and [...]

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Drew Emmitt Band

April 18, 2006

I love Drew Emmitt! I think he was one of the key ingredients to Leftover Salmon. My favorite songs that they played were the ones that he sang. In addition to being a great singer, he’s a killer mandolin picker. I wrote about Vince Herman’s post Leftover Salmon carreer here and I’m happy to see [...]

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Keller’s Cellar

March 14, 2006

One of the things that makes Keller Williams such a great musician is his influences and choice of cover songs. He plays everything from Grateful Dead to Billy Joel to Bill Monroe to Marley to Funk to Punk to Bluegrass. His influences include Michael Hedges, Ani DiFranco, Jerry Garcia, String Cheese Incident, and many many [...]

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