What are you listening to at the moment?

Tonight in the darkroom... Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Totally abstract and B&W!
 
Most of my listening has been in my car at the moment and I've been playing a double CD called 'May The Circle Be Unbroken.'

It was put together by the 'Nitty Gritty Dirt Band' many years ago when they managed to get a lot of traditional blue grass musicians into the studio and worked with them for this amazing recording. Doc Watson, Maybelle Carter, Jimmy Martin, Roy Acuf and others. The level of muscianship on this recording blows me away ... some of the best banjo work I have ever heard and the vocal work of these legends of American music is superb!
 
Keith said:
Most of my listening has been in my car at the moment and I've been playing a double CD called 'May The Circle Be Unbroken.'

It was put together by the 'Nitty Gritty Dirt Band' many years ago when they managed to get a lot of traditional blue grass musicians into the studio and worked with them for this amazing recording. Doc Watson, Maybelle Carter, Jimmy Martin, Roy Acuf and others. The level of muscianship on this recording blows me away ... some of the best banjo work I have ever heard and the vocal work of these legends of American music is superb!
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That's a great album !
 
Keith said:
Most of my listening has been in my car at the moment and I've been playing a double CD called 'May The Circle Be Unbroken.'

It was put together by the 'Nitty Gritty Dirt Band' many years ago when they managed to get a lot of traditional blue grass musicians into the studio and worked with them for this amazing recording. Doc Watson, Maybelle Carter, Jimmy Martin, Roy Acuf and others. The level of muscianship on this recording blows me away ... some of the best banjo work I have ever heard and the vocal work of these legends of American music is superb!
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Keith, I remember that from years ago...great stuff. I swear, you really do need to plan a trip over here. A photo documentary of your favorite country and bluegrass artists.;)
 
oh yeah, will the circle be unbroken and the dirt band. saw 'em in concert at least two, maybe three times. what talent. what a show.

as to what i am listening to now, it is a six-barge coal tow going 'round the bend just downstream from us. the muffled thunder of those big diesels is music to our ears ...
 
Track 19 on the second disc of that set is awesome ... 'Soldier's Joy!' (banjo bliss)

And I swear Jimmy Martin had the best bluegrass voice ever ... maybe even better than the great Hank Williams.

My music tastes are very broad thanks to my dad's influence (lots of classical and jazz) but bluegrass really touches me ... it is 'America' in all it's glory IMO.
 
paulfish4570 said:
bill monroe, the inventor of bluegrass, might argue the point with you, keith ... :)
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True ... though I think any significant musical genre ultimately comes from the people of the time and the culture and not necessarilly an individual. He realised it for sure though!

My ambition strangely enough is to see the Grand Ole Opry in action ... that's some tradition IMO! Though no doubt it's become a lot more mainstream country these days.
 
The Civil Wars..... Great original music in times when most you hear on the radio are manufactured songs, vocals and music (......some of which I secretly enjoy ;p)
 
oh, the opry still hosts traditional shows/artists, too. one of my brothers in upper east tennessee in the blue grass hotbed.

and bill monroe really is the father of bluegrass ...
 
That's a great clip by the way paul ... thanks. Those guys are so good it's scary!

And yes he definitely spawned it ... sometimes I really wish I'd made it to the US when I was younger. I tried to emigrate there when I was twenty but couldn't get a work visa because they didn't need people with my particular trade (auto mechanic) ... I came to Oz instead and the rest is history!
 
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