recommend me some modern Bluegrass type stuff

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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    soulsinging wrote:
    i saw one band at lolla last year that was excellent: nickel creek. they played covers of toxic and nice dream (britney spears and radiohead) which were a blast.

    bright eyes has some bluegrassy stuff. also, the opener for bright eyes was excellent and straight up bluegrass. gillian welch. i thought i'd hate her cos i don't much care for bluegrass or female vocalists, but i really enjoyed her set.

    so: nickel creek, gillian welch.
    ...
    Yes... Nicklecreek (Check out Chris Thile and/or the Watkins Family (Sean and Sara Watkins)
    and... Gillian Welch and guitarist David Rawlings.
    ...
    If you are in Los Angeles.. check out Largo on Fairfax... the Watkins kids play there all the time and it is always a great show.
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  • happyhourhero
    happyhourhero Posts: 204
    aside from what everyone esle said here ( which are all very good!) I would also recommend railroad earth and leftover salmon
  • sledgepammer
    sledgepammer Posts: 13
    I am a huge bluegrass fan! Here's a few cool bands... :)

    Old Crow Medicine Show

    The Packway Handle Band

    Bob Log III (more experimental, but still bluegrass-esque)

    Hackensaw Boys
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    Check out Old & in the Way. Bluegrass from the 70's with Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Peter Rowan, Vassar Clements, and John Kahn.

    Some really great bluegrass music, and a excellent cover of 'Wild Horses'.
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  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    16 Horsepower
    a blending of bluegrass, folk and trad rock. their songs are mainly dealing with conflict and spiritual themes. they have split now I think, most successful recording was "Sackcloth& ashes" from around the mid90s.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    soulsinging wrote:
    i saw one band at lolla last year that was excellent: nickel creek. they played covers of toxic and nice dream (britney spears and radiohead) which were a blast.

    bright eyes has some bluegrassy stuff. also, the opener for bright eyes was excellent and straight up bluegrass. gillian welch. i thought i'd hate her cos i don't much care for bluegrass or female vocalists, but i really enjoyed her set.

    so: nickel creek, gillian welch.


    gillian welch!!! i've heard a few of hers... excellent stuff!!!

    i've got a nice list from this thread and i've been using it to search their myspace sites, which in turn is leading me onto other artists... so its been prductive for me all round.. been trying to get out of my "it must be heavy rock" routine for a while now
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • greenspirit
    greenspirit Posts: 64
    Not too into bluegrass, so I don't know if this qualifies, but this guy was great live.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYrcOih41Y8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj5yGTUHFkQ&mode=related&search=
  • Strangest Tribe
    Strangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    Though technically not Bluegrass, you should listen to Neko Case. It's an alternative country vibe, completely original. Any album is great, she continues to produce quality music. My favs are Furnace Room Lullaby and Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.

    She is absolutely beautiful and she has perhaps the greatest pure voice ever. Think Patsy Cline and Allison Krause with better lyrics.

    Some real poetic beautiful music.
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  • Matty Boy
    Matty Boy Posts: 421
    This is probably the greatest Bluegrass performance ever.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX9qcggRo18
  • rhinomagic
    rhinomagic Charlottesville, VA Posts: 2,555
    Matty Boy wrote:
    This is probably the greatest Bluegrass performance ever.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX9qcggRo18

    Thanks for that!

    I'm falling off the couch laughing.

    But it's freakishly enjoyable, too.

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  • Matty Boy
    Matty Boy Posts: 421
    Strummin' With The Devil is a must have for all Bluegrass fans.
    http://www.amazon.com/Strummin-Devil-Bluegrass-Tribute-Halen/dp/B000CEV4RM
  • whulmef
    whulmef Posts: 176
    Ricky Scaggs (sp. ?) and Allison Kraus.

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