new Nora Brown EP with Stephanie Coleman is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T67bfkm2Bw
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 3 August 2023 06:59 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjqeQ5cylFk
Love this Dan Crary (of awful album art "Lady's Fancy" fame) performance
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 04:26 (eight months ago) link
That Nora Brown vid is lovely too. She's great.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 04:27 (eight months ago) link
Saw a video of her playing John Cohen's banjo, which was also played by Roscoe Holcomb. She also mentioned a banjo her father made. So it sounds like she's got a deep connection to the old time music world? Not sure what the story is, but she sure is great.
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 16:25 (eight months ago) link
Did not see this coming---given his formative-years impressions of Django and Bob Wills, would expect at least some of it to tend toward swingrass (swine grass?), a la xxxpost Roland White:
Bluegrass, Willie Nelson's 151st album, presents 12 classic Willie Nelson compositions--including "On the Road Again," "Yesterday's Wine," "Still is Still Moving to Me," "Good Hearted Woman" and more--freshly interpreted by Willie and his bluegrass ensemble. For the album, Willie picked 12 personal and fan favorite compositions from across his career to perform anew. All songs on Bluegrass were written by Willie except "Good Hearted Woman" which has music and lyrics written by both Willie and Waylon Jennings. CD Release Date: 9/15/2023Vinyl Release Date: 9/29/2023
― dow, Thursday, 17 August 2023 01:14 (eight months ago) link
The first ever thread I discovered ILM through was an awful album art thread that featured this classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh4NDOo3XtE
Things have come full circle as I’ve now discovered it’s a fucking masterwork of flatpicking guitar.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 August 2023 19:10 (eight months ago) link
I didn't know this guy until a few days ago, but pretty incrediblehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsZ968M5D0Y
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:50 (eight months ago) link
Enjoyed this live performance of Alison Brown and Steve Martin's duet from her new album On Banjo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doBcW7Hx9SY
― Indexed, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 18:00 (seven months ago) link
Gotta throw out a mention of my buddy Devon, a fantastic young banjo player. Killer baritone voice too. Great guy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZHqcdU_rAs
― ian, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 22:01 (seven months ago) link
Everybody needs to listen to Summer Dean
"She's In His Arms But I'm In The Palm Of His Hand"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ_hFtAIw4g
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 22:12 (seven months ago) link
Is her throwback sound better than others who are also singing old school style country? She does it well.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 16:29 (seven months ago) link
Veranda are a Mom & Pop operation, with just the right helpers (guests x regulars always tight x fluid): Quebec Francophone originals with French airs further lifting bluegrass and old-timey. Results don't usually make me think "Cajun," but Arcadian refreshment out on the front porch, yeah. They've got a bunch here, but so far I'm totally detained by the latest, Là-bas:https://verandamusic.bandcamp.com/album/l-basOne of their colleagues is banjoist Guy Donis, and given the title of Guy Donis & The Montreal Bluegrass League, I was hoping for more like this, but nope, it's just good strong American-associated tradgrass-folk, with "Deep Ellum Blues" etc. stirring the jar:https://guydonis.bandcamp.com/album/guy-donis-the-montreal-bluegrass-league
― dow, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 17:53 (seven months ago) link
More originals with arresting use of trad elements: singer-songwriter-flatpicker Molly Tuttle's aptly titled Crooked Tree, with some twisted plots and relationships flying through grassy tunes played by heavy hitters, also mellower trips like her childhood memories of Daddy taking her to Cali situations involving for instance "dawg music" of Grisman.
Speaking of whom, he is, without showboating, romping all over 2022 reissues of Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard's 1965 debut, Who's That Knocking?---along with
Chubby Wise, arguably the architect of bluegrass fiddling...and Lamar Grier, who played banjo as a member of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in the 1960s.
I haven't played the earlier reissue of Rounder Records' 1973 Hazel and Alice yet, but bow bad could it be?https://hazeldickensandalicegerrard.bandcamp.com/album/hazel-alice
And this is real freaking good, from 2018:
set of newly unearthed recordings, Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969, out September 21 on Free Dirt Records. Sourced from Alice's private archive and digitized with help from the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC Chapel Hill, the recordings invite us to witness the creative process of these towering figures—just two voices and a handful of instruments working out arrangements at home. Across 19 tracks the duo sings the classic country of The Carter Family, The Louvin Brothers, and Jimmie Rodgers; contemporary hits of the 1960s penned by Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard; and barn-burning traditional standards that blur the line between old-time and early bluegrass. Sing Me Back Home is a raw, unfiltered listen to Hazel & Alice at the height of their collaborative energy.
― dow, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:27 (seven months ago) link
My parents have the 1973 Hazel and Alice and of course it's great. Thanks for these links, I didn't know about all these reissues.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:35 (seven months ago) link
As entertainment anyway, don't know that I've taken in any ideas beyond that in his yarns. If so, they went in one eye and out the other.Although I can't help missing Bradbury and even ER Burroughs, most of the new retro Old Mars is Big Red Fun, as concisely described here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Mars
― dow, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 22:13 (seven months ago) link
Welcome! I covet your parents' album. Also: Alice's Hiss Golden Messenger-produced Follow The Music, from 2014, when she was 85---here with a lot of others I haven't heard yet, incl advance tracks from Sun To Sun, which comes out Oct. 20!https://alicegerrard.bandcamp.com/music
― dow, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 22:24 (seven months ago) link
I *have* heard Follow The Music, and dig it. Some more originals w trad elements.
― dow, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 22:26 (seven months ago) link
Just dropped. Amazing recordhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbXwZ_PAp_0https://open.spotify.com/album/1GhQW4Cs0dcMELeXF20pYE?si=Ir8TrfEiTq2m6M0r8EwxeQ
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 12 April 2024 16:04 (two weeks ago) link
I think this is my favorite track:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd-Z16tga10
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 01:22 (one week ago) link