baked my noodle 😆🤣
that must've been epic, Steve Martin shreds 🤣
I found it all backwards. Found Bela through "My Bluegrass Heart". I already like jam bands, and Billy Strings (he was on MBH). Then the flecktones basically fell in my lap.
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I started with victor 😅
haven't heard that one yet 🤣
"Listen to the cool tunes on Double U Double O Ten"
Heard this on something and have never been able to un-hear it.
A mention of bluegrass and banjo wasn't on my bingo card for threads on nostr. Here's a contemplative Sunday morning song. 😊
It's Sunday morning and I'm in the mood to talk about music. I've been interested in all forms of American music for many years and 1st got really interested in Bluegrass music about 40 years ago. What many of us know as Bluegrass banjo is the result of an innovation in picking style by a man named Earl Scruggs. He was using a three finger picking style rather than some of the older "old time" picking styles, clawhammer being one of those. So during that period from the 1940s on, the band/instrument setup of what is known as Bluegrass was growing in Appalachia area of USA. Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys and The Stanley Brothers were two massive influences in this style of music.
What did Bluegrass develop out of? Well there is a term "old time music" and this history, some considered controversial, stretches back long into American history. Clawhammer banjo was a picking style of this older generation and the banjo itself was open backed unlike the Bluegrass banjo which had innovated "resonator" that was akin to a wooden speaker on the back of the banjo which amplified the sound. Old time music is fascinating, songs and tunes contain African, Scottish, Irish and likely Caribbean influence.
I want to finish with an old time song that I found on youtube many years ago(Notice the softer, slower difference in banjo picking style). It's raw and real. Sadly the banjo player from the video is no longer with us but I want to share it as there is something I, and I think a lot of us here on nostr, value. It's the ability of a person who is not famous, influential or powerful to share something with others. A record of perhaps generations of tradition and culture preserved for us humbly and respectably.