Bluegrass Jam Along
The IBMA Award winning podcast for anyone and everyone who loves bluegrass. Free fiddle tune backing tracks and interviews with amazing people from the world of bluegrass. For every tune we give you four brand new tracks: - Backup 4 times through (you play the tune or improvise breaks) - Tune 4 times through (you play backup) - ‘Jam Along’ (4 complete run throughs, alternating backup and tune) - Full performance For more info and chord charts, visit https://bluegrassjamalong.com. Hope you find these tracks useful (and thanks for listening!) - Matt
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Bitesize - Gabe Witcher on first meeting Chris Thile and how Punch Brothers came together
My guest on this week"s bitesize episode is Gabe Witcher. This extract comes from a longer conversation I had with Gabe in June 2023, directly after he"d played his final shows with Punch Brothers at Telluride. Gabe talks about first meeting Chris Thile at a festival when they were kids; playing football together befor
My guest for this week"s Bitesize episode is Jarrod Walker, best known to most of you as the mandolin player in Billy Strings" band. This is a segment of a longer interview from 2022. In this section Jarrod talks about getting the gig with Billy, how it was both the most progressive and the most traditional gig he"d ha
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My guest this week is Joe Brent, founder of Adhyâropa Records. So many of the guests I"ve had on the podcast have released their albums through Adhyâropa and I was fascinated to find out more about the label. We talk about why Joe set up the label in the first place, the reasons why it"s almost impossible for musicians
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