JuliaAnn, My mother sings that song when we all get together. Would Jim and Jesse be the Wilburn Bros?
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I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Have to agree with wildcat6, Dan Tyminski and Seldom Scene - love Wait a Minute. Also like Dailey & Vincent's song By The Mark.
I am glad you enjoyed them. I thought for sure I would've seen someone post "Hard Row to Hoe" by the Tommy Webb Band. I know it really hits home with me and many farmers across the land.
Not exactly bluegrass, but more flat picking traditional guitar...Norman Blake...Fields of November or Whiskey Before Breakfast...I have a friend who knows him and every year or two has him come up and he puts on a private concert for about 18-20 people in their living room. I've been privileged to attend three times and I've seen him several times before that. Really nice fellow and pure talent.
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"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow the fields of those who don't."-Thomas Jefferson
Almost forgot , Shotgun Slade , just can't remember who did it.
Larry Sparks , Blue Virginia Blue.
I tell you that man just gets better with age.
We have a local group here I'm really fond of called , Midnight Flight. The Guitar player taught me alot of what I know on the Guitar. Thank You Mr. Jimmy (Gimme) Allison.
Bill Monroe's "Angels Rock Me to Sleep" is one of my favorites. I also like old Jim and Jesse, can't recall the name of it right this second but one of their songs I really like has the first line "High on a mountain, what do you see? Bear tracks bear tracks looking back at me". Awesome banjo playing. I love bluegrass but unfortunately my dh doesn't.
I could have a new favorite song everyday and sometimes do just that, but the one I always come back to is this one where they couldn't possibly have squeezed more talent in that studio if they had tried:
My favorite bluegrass songs are the original ones that my son writes! Lukas is 23 and in graduate school getting his Master's in Teaching degree, and plays the mandolin, banjo, harmonica, and guitar. (Not to mention the bari sax in jazz....but that's another story!) He just released an original CD, in which he plays all the parts of his songs (recorded himself playing one instrument, then another, harmonizing with himself, etc. and put it all together). Really good! To read about it, and listen to one of the songs, check out two entries on my blog: (you can even order it through PayPal!)
This group isn't well known but they're cutting edge in the combination of hip hop/rap/bluegrass sounds. I've never heard bluegrass played this way before. I'll post one of their instrumentals here that's basically lively bluegrass. Be advised that if you go on youtube to listen to their songs that some of those are not suitable language for young children, maybe not some adults either. I think this is the best bluegrass picking band I've ever heard anywhere. Not just this song but every song is unique and one of a kind.
~*~Erin~*~
