Been on a huge bluegrass kick the past few months -- was literally going to create a thread until i saw this. Is Caamp bluegrass? I hope it's not country. Big fan This has been on repeat this week, I love female vocals with some pickin
My favorite local bar is this divey bluegrass venue that is so much damn fun. Tuesday's are open mic bluegrass jams:
Caamp is awesome and would be more Americana. Their earlier stuff skews more to the bluegrass side and they have expanded from that a bit. I would have never called them a bluegrass band, but this thread is for all of it. I would say there is plenty of Country music I like though, just not the shit pumped out through the pop charts. It’s all mostly bluegrass or Americana based. My favorite shirt I saw at Merlefest was a plain black Tshirt with white letters “That Ain’t Country Music”. I would love to wear that around to the Myrtle Beach Country Music Festival to see the reactions.
Billy and Alex sat in with Sam Grisman Project with Peter Rowan. Won’t be and to catch them on this tour. I really hope they come back through the SE with Peter. Hopefully with Dom Leslie on Mandolin, and Vic Furtado on banjo like this one too. The core lineup is much better when they are there.
New Billy Single. I can already tell I’m going to burn this album out. Spoiler This is probably my favorite piece of music off the new record. I veered off and followed my instincts.. even though I barely knew what I was doing on protools at the time (still don’t) I made the first part late one night when I was at home messing around on the stratosphere guitar (a 12 string guitar with each pair of strings tuned in harmonic intervals. Some major 3rds some 5ths I think? I’m not sure but it’s a really cool sound. The first time I heard it was Stratosphere Boogie by Jimmy Bryant and speedy west.) It started when the main guitar part revealed itself to me. After I recorded that guitar part, then I recorded myself whistling this little melody over the chords .. then I thought”well what if it wasn’t a whistle at all and if that melody belonged to the lyrics?” So I took the whistle out and wrote words to fit that melody.. I just chased it for a minute and it presented itself to me and I’m soo happy it came together. To me this was always a 2 part thing. Not really sure why, it’s just the way it wanted to come out.. the second part (I believe in you) is maybe some of the realest shit I’ve written.. from the mire. From the part of my heart that just wants everyone that is struggling to be okay. I believe in you, it’s true. Thank you for listening. I love you. Hes really getting out there with a bunch of people: New Sierra Hull Single/cover:
Quintuple post. Just put on the new Fruition album. Great Americana band. Like many of them they started out as a string band.
How was it? I was crushing pretty hard on Nick’s drummer when we saw him. I don’t find myself listening to them repeatedly that much, but love their live vibe. He is a character for sure.
Both were excellent. First time seeing Nick even though he's from Arkansas. Actually playing a free show around town in a month or so and definitely making it to that. I was never a punk rocker type but I appreciate the ethos and he's definitely still that guy just playing different music now. And yeah, his drummer was smoke. Nick was definitely happy to be done with this tour for then and go back home, he kept giving Arkansas lots of love haha. 2nd time seeing Sierra Ferrell. First show was in a club and was oversold. This venue in Memphis (Overton Park Shell) was pretty nice, all GA with a lawn and standing room pit, merch lines sucked but the show rocked and was nice to enjoy some songs in the lawn and walk up pretty damn close for the encore despite probably being twice as many people as the April show. And she had switched up the set list a bit and the band jammed out a couple songs in ways they definitely did not before. So they're obviously catching a groove touring so much.
I think he said his current style of country was honed in New Orleans with this current band, which makes sense because it’s pretty gritty.
That definitely makes sense to me. I also learned he designed his own merch, and he's done design work for one of the better/old breweries in the state that's always had good art. Loved the sticker selection, definitely kopping merch at the next show.
Saw that these guys made Renewal and became quite embarrassed I haven’t yet seen them live since they’re from here smh
They’re at the top of my list to see, but haven’t caught them yet. Feel like this album is going to bang, and they are on the edge of blowing up. Think they could leap frog some of the other upcoming/middling jamgrass bands. Josiah Nelson is the fiddle player. He used to be in the Trey Wellington band. Trey is from around here and has come to several of the local grassroots org open jams to kind of lead them. I sat with his band and Josiah in a busking tent at IBMA for about an hour last year. They are way above my skill level, but I could get in some breaks on songs I called or if someone calls something I know. Otherwise I play chords and try not to get in the way.
Musically I think Failing lags the others a bit. But that tenor vocal is calling Ralph Stanley right from the grave. And I would pay top dollar to watch Alex play whatever he wanted to solo for a few hours.
She has been around the Nashville scene for a while but this is her first solo album. She has a bunch of vids on her YouTube channel Instagram. That other female on guitar in the video is the East Nash Grass fiddle player.
I dug into him a few weeks ago and definitely been sleeping on him. WV has been pumping out some good stuff.
For as talented as he is, their albums don’t really grab me that much. He can just slay traditional stuff though. My word. Billy Jake Workman Trey Hensley Bryan Sutton Chris Eldrige
Waited too long and this completely sold out, including on stub hub etc decided not to let this happen again and purchased red clay strays tickets for tomorrow. Grace Bowers and the hodge podge open and they sound hella dank based on the album I listened to today
Probably said this before but its weird to me that I was seeing Red Clay Strays in the local brewery like 6 years ago. They were just a Mobile local band and we're good but I didn't think they'd blow up like they have. I'm happy for them, I knew they were making moves when they opened for Avett Bros in town. Coincidentally, saw Avett Bros last night. Was a good show and they had puppets on this tour! It was more fun than it sounds.
That’s awesome. I saw one of their reels on Instagram and thought, damn these guys slap did some research and found out wondering why blew up on tik tok a long time ago. Keeps making me feel old as shit that im finding artists long after they became popular on that app
It’s IBMA week and Billy album release week. Last year in Raleigh. They just announced Chattanooga for 2025. Raleigh is going to keep doing a bluegrass festival in its place. Ramble Schedule Spoiler IBMA Bluegrass Ramble TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY ARTIST LINEUP Tuesday, September 24th Lincoln Theatre (126 E Cabarrus St) 7:00PM Henhouse Prowlers 8:00PM Twisted Pine 9:00PM Becky Buller 10:00PM New Dangerfield Jimmy V’s Osteria & Bar – Sheraton Hotel (420 Fayetteville St) 7:00PM Colebrook Road 8:00PM Tony Furtado 9:00PM Never Come Down 10:00PM Damn Tall Buildings The Pour House (224 S Blount St) 7:00PM Tray Wellington Band 8:00PM Nick Chandler & Delivered 9:00PM Billy Droze 10:00PM Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road Vintage Church (118 South Person St) 7:00PM Kristy Cox 8:00PM RiverBend 9:00PM John Reischman & The Jaybirds Raleigh Convention Center Room 304 (500 S Salisbury St) 7:10PM Rick Faris Band 7:45PM Showman & Coole 8:20PM Stillhouse Junkies 8:55PM The Price Sisters 9:30PM Water Tower 10:05PM Full Cord 10:40PM The Slocan Ramblers Raleigh Convention Center Room 306 (500 S Salisbury St) 7:00PM Serene Green 7:35PM Crandall Creek 8:10PM Damn Tall Buildings 8:45PM Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra 9:20PM Missy Raines & Allegheny 9:55PM Songs From The Road Band 10:30PM Tony Trischka: EarlJam 11:05PM Chicken Wire Empire Wednesday, September 25th Lincoln Theatre (126 E Cabarrus St) 7:00PM Missy Raines & Allegheny 8:00PM The Price Sisters 9:00PM Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra 10:00PM Tony Trischka: EarlJam Jimmy V’s Osteria & Bar – Sheraton Hotel (420 Fayetteville St) 7:00PM Stillhouse Junkies 8:00PM Songs From The Road Band 9:00PM Serene Green 10:00PM Showman & Coole The Pour House (224 S Blount St) 7:00PM The Slocan Ramblers 8:00PM Chicken Wire Empire 9:00PM Water Tower 10:00PM Rick Faris Band Vintage Church (118 South Person St) 7:00PM The Amanda Cook Band 8:00PM Crandall Creek 9:00PM Full Cord Raleigh Convention Center Room 304 (500 S Salisbury St) 7:10PM Becky Buller 7:45PM Billy Droze 8:20PM The Amanda Cook Band 8:55PM RiverBend 9:30PM Tony Furtado 10:05PM Henhouse Prowlers 10:40PM Tray Wellington Band Raleigh Convention Center Room 306 (500 S Salisbury St) 7:00PM Colebrook Road 7:35PM New Dangerfield 8:10PM Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road 8:45PM Never Come Down 9:20PM John Reischman & The Jaybirds 9:55PM Kristy Cox 10:30PM Twisted Pine 11:05PM Nick Chandler & Delivered Thursday, September 26th Beer & Banjos World of Bluegrass Edition (Local Showcases) Lincoln Theatre (126 E Cabarrus St) 7:00PM GrassStreet 8:00PM The Farmer & Adele 9:00PM Country Grass 10:00PM The Wilted Plums Jimmy V’s Osteria & Bar – Sheraton Hotel (420 Fayetteville St) 7:00PM Nixon, Williams & Gage 8:00PM Heather Sarona & Lindsey Tims 9:00PM Turkey Hill 10:00PM Old & In the Way Tribute Late Night Showcase sponsored by Yamaha Guitar Group The Pour House (224 S Blount St) 7:00PM Cuttin’ Grass 8:00PM River Ridge 9:00PM Jack Devereux Band 10:00PM Hank, Pattie & The Current Late Night Showcase sponsored by Cumberland Music Collective Vintage Church (118 South Person St) 7:00PM Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road 8:00PM The Loblollies 9:00PM Sweet Potato Pie 10:00PM Skye Piston Band Main Stage Spoiler FRIDAY 9:30PM: Sierra Ferrell 7:45PM: Sam Bush 6:15PM: Rhonda Vincent & the Rage 5:00PM: Crying Uncle SATURDAY 9:30PM: Steep Canyon Rangers (with special guests Chatham County Line) 7:45PM: Sierra Hull 6:15PM: Amythyst Kiah 5:00PM: Danny Paisley 4:15PM: Kids on Bluegrass Fri/Sat Free Festival Spoiler In addition to our Red Hat Amphitheater lineup, performers on our five street stages include: Balsam Range; Barefoot Movement; Broken Compass; Compton & Newberry; Chris Jones & the Night Drivers; Country Current (US Navy Band); Dewey & Leslie Brown; Earl White String Band; Evans, Smith & May, Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen; From China to Appalachia (Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian); Golden Shoals, The Gospel Jubilators; The Gravy Boys; Hank, Pattie & the Current; Henhouse Prowlers; Jacob Jolliff Band; Jake Blount; Jake Leg; Jim Lauderdale; Junior Appalachian Musicians; Kaia Kater; Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road; New Dangerfield; Nixon; Blevins & Gage; Raised in Raleigh All Star Jam; Sister Sadie; Songs From the Road Band; The Tan & Sober Gentlemen; Tray Wellington Band; Union Grove Old Time Fiddlers’ Convention 100th Anniversary; Unspoken Tradition; The Williamson Brothers; Willie Watson, Wyatt Ellis; and more! https://ibma-2024.pinecone.org/
The more I listen to Mountain Grass Unit on nugs the more I’m impressed with Luke Black on guitar. Kid has some serious chops.
I think this was my favorite so far, but that one is good too. All the shows seem a bit similar at this point. https://2nu.gs/4ctSBB7 In other nugs news Sturgill and Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway shows are on there now too.
Hell yeah. These guys rock. They did a cover of Zappa’s Peaches en Regalia at Merlefest that was great. Their flute player is the one that was in Billy’s LoTR Halloween shows. They’ve got new music.
Not bluegrass but a new Sarah Jaroz album. Great multi instrumentalist. Nug, check out I’m With Her (no not that one) It’s this Sarah, Sara Watkins from Nickel Creek, and Aoife O'Donovan who was in Crooked Still. Vampire Weekend cover Here’s one they did for an album of Johnny Cash lyrics that were never put to music.
Hawktail did an album with a Swedish band and I love it. They’ve done some stuff with Aoife recently too
Read this if you haven’t already. Incredible article about an incredible person we’re so blessed to have. https://www.gq.com/story/billy-strings
Happy Billy album day How about some Japanese bluegrass to start the day Died at the Japalachian comment