Whip Out Your Banjos, It's Bluegrass Week! - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > The Music Forums > Country, Folk & World Music
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 01-17-2011, 09:24 AM   #1 (permalink)
Juicious Maximus III
 
Guybrush's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Scabb Island
Posts: 6,525
Default Whip Out Your Banjos, It's Bluegrass Week!

Yaaaarrp!

Yessuh, it is bluegrass week. Shet mah mouth! Bluegrass is a bran' of Amurican folk moosic wif various old wo'ld influences. Yo' probably haf a purdy fine idea already, but eff'n not, then Wikipedia kin probably he'p yo'. So, this hyar week is fo' celebratin' all thin's bluegrass.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of country music. It has roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music. Bluegrass was inspired by the music of immigrants from the United Kingdom and Ireland (particularly the Scotch-Irish immigrants in Appalachia). In bluegrass, as in some forms of jazz, one or more instruments each takes its turn playing the melody and improvising around it, while the others perform accompaniment; this is especially typified in tunes called breakdowns. This is in contrast to old-time music, in which all instruments play the melody together or one instrument carries the lead throughout while the others provide accompaniment. Traditional bluegrass is typically based on a small set of acoustic stringed instruments including mandolin, acoustic guitar, banjo, fiddle, resonator guitar and upright bass, with or without vocals.
Bluegrass music has attracted a diverse and loyal following worldwide. Bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe characterized the genre: "Scottish bagpipes and ole-time fiddlin'. It's Methodist and Holiness and Baptist. It's blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound. It's plain music that tells a good story. It's played from my heart to your heart, and it will touch you. Bluegrass is music that matters."
I'll start mahse'f wif a li'l homage t'th' "Pappy" of th' junre, Mr. Billy Joe Munroe!



edit :

The Dialectizer
__________________
Something Completely Different
Guybrush is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-17-2011, 09:52 AM   #2 (permalink)
Al Dente
 
SATCHMO's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Texas
Posts: 4,708
Default

Just a few:







SATCHMO is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-17-2011, 11:37 AM   #3 (permalink)
Killed Laura Palmer
 
ThePhanastasio's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Ashland, KY
Posts: 1,679
Default


Earl Scruggs needs to be mentioned.
__________________

It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken
Perhaps they're better left unsung
ThePhanastasio is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-17-2011, 11:50 AM   #4 (permalink)
Account Disabled
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 4,538
Default

I love bluegrass! Really excited about this.
someonecompletelyrandom is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-17-2011, 11:56 AM   #5 (permalink)
Al Dente
 
SATCHMO's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Texas
Posts: 4,708
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by tore View Post
Haha... that's precious:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Booboo
Wal, one time i woke up wif a huge boner an' walked down th' hallway t'use th' bathroom, i was only warin' mah unnerwar, an' mah boner peaked out through th' openin' an' i didnt realise it until mah Gran'Mammy pointed it out.
SATCHMO is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-17-2011, 12:10 PM   #6 (permalink)
Account Disabled
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 4,538
Default

someonecompletelyrandom is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-17-2011, 05:10 PM   #7 (permalink)
Say something vague
 
Charlemagne's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 1,551
Default

Not really into Bluegrass, but I have these guys

The Punch Brothers- Rye Whiskey


Rye n Clover- Black Hoody Dream (he's kind of like bluegrass influenced folk-punk, but still)
__________________
Charlemagne had eyes like a lover, but last winter there was weather and his eyes they iced right over.

My Last.fm
Charlemagne is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-18-2011, 12:25 AM   #8 (permalink)
Stoned and Jammin' Out
 
Mrd00d's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Northern California; Eugene, OR; mobile
Posts: 1,602
Default

This is a bit of a stretch, but ... heh heh heh.

This is off his all banjo album that just came out 3 months ago or so... Spinal Clock


I had a friend recommend I post this. I reckon he's probably right. Lots of rock/metal/novelty filler, but at the 4:00 minute marker he goes all sorts of awesome with a banjo effect. He was between the age of 17 and 23 here.

__________________
Mrd00d's Last.fm


Last edited by Mrd00d; 01-18-2011 at 12:34 AM.
Mrd00d is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-18-2011, 03:06 AM   #9 (permalink)
Juicious Maximus III
 
Guybrush's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Scabb Island
Posts: 6,525
Default

Here's Earl Scruggs Revue playing Banjo Man which I assume is a cover, but from which artist, I don't know!



I love the song though.
__________________
Something Completely Different
Guybrush is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-18-2011, 05:58 AM   #10 (permalink)
Mate, Spawn & Die
 
Janszoon's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
Posts: 24,593
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by SATCHMO View Post
Just a few:

One of my all-time favorite bluegrass songs right there.

Here are three more favorites of mine...

"Orange Blossom Special" by the Stanley Brothers. Some of the sickest banjo and fiddle playing you'll ever hear.




"Dooley" by The Dillards. This is basically the appalachian version of a narcocorrido which is interesting from sort of a sociological standpoint. The fact that the banjo melody is so gorgeous doesn't hurt either.




"Will the Circle Be Unbroken" by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The album version of this song is better but this was all I could find on YouTube. Still pretty good. I'm rarely ever moved by religious songs but this is one of the that really does it for me.



Quote:
Originally Posted by tore View Post
Nice. Though if one wants to be really picky it should probably be mentioned that the appalachian dialect is actually fairly different from the "Redneck" used by The Dialectizer.

Janszoon is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.