Bluegrass Jam Along

Updated: 14 May 2025 • 465 episodes
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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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Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. News and Announcements (Church Street News) Bluegrass on Hudson lineup and ticketsIBMA WOB ticketsIBMA International Stage application

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My guest on the podcast this week is six time IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year Jason Carter. Jason recently ended his 33 year run with the Del McCoury Band and we talk about that extraordinary journey, from the fascinating story about how he got the job in the first place, to the decision to move on and what comes next.

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This Bitesize episode features a conversation I had with Wyatt Rice for a set of episodes in 2023 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Tony Rice"s "Church Street Blues" album. Wyatt talks about his experience of playing on the sessions aged just 17, hanging out with Tony, the first time he saw an Ovation guitar at Tony

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Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. News and Announcements (Church Street News) Tony Rice Memorial Day Music FestBanjo in Sicily with Tony Trischka Releases (The Grass is

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My guest this week is Katie Harford Hogue, who joins me to chat about the wonderful album "Julia Belle: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 2" We discuss how the project came about, following the discovery of dozens of John Hartford"s notebooks, kept between 1983 and 2001, full of as many as 4,000 original fidd

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Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. News and Announcements (Church Street News) Darol Anger’s Big Book of Tunes vol 3 Releases (The Grass is New) The Grass is (mostly) Ne

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