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Harold Dye

 

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Cullman, Alabama, USA
Post  Posted 18 Jul 2017 12:21 pm    
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Last night there was a show on PBS called Muscle Shoals to Music Row with a bluegrass band called SteelDrivers from Nashville. I had planned to watch it just to see what it was but got busy and didn't tune in until about 10 min left in the show. This band has all the acoustic instruments in a bluegrass band i.e bango, mandolin, upright bass etc. The only song I heard sounded like rock done bluegrass style. Has anyone heard them or know anything about them. They were extremely talented but with a different twist. Never heard bluegrass like this. Since I only heard one song I can't say what the other songs were like but what I heard was very different, sounded like rock with a fiddle and bango. Did anyone else see it?
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Jerry Overstreet


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Post  Posted 18 Jul 2017 12:37 pm    
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I have seen it, but it's been awhile and I can't remember who I saw on it...it may have been the Steeldrivers episode. I know Marty Raybon and Shenandoah have done it too.

I think it was a series of shows. You can search your title at www.pbs.org for episodes.
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Mark Eaton


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Post  Posted 18 Jul 2017 1:39 pm    
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I've twice seen The Steeldrivers live and I have all their CDs. The most recent (The Muscle Shoals Recordings) won a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.

In other words - they're a pretty big deal.

They formed about nine years ago and two of the original members who are no longer on board were Chris Stapleton - one of the bigger things in recent years since sliced bread - and long-time Nashville all rounder who can play about anything, Mike Henderson.

I have come across folks in the past who might think of them as sort of an "acoustic rock" group because the lead singers, originally Stapleton and now Gary Nichols, don't sing lead in a tenor in the "high lonesome" vein of a Bill Monroe or Del McCoury so "the bluegrass police" tend to scoff at the sound because to them it isn't the real deal.

Hey - whatever - I sure like the band. All great players, and some very well written songs.

One of my favorite Steeldrivers tunes below, The River Runs Red - a beautiful and stirring piece of work about a chapter from The Civil War:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhHmQ6W8d3g
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Craig Stock


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Post  Posted 18 Jul 2017 2:27 pm    
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Thanks Mark, for the link, great song, very moving!
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Jerry Hayes


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Post  Posted 19 Jul 2017 3:27 pm    
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Another group that does some interesting "Bluegrass Rock" is a group called "Beatlegrass". One of the members is Milo Deering who I believe is a member of this Forum. Just look 'em up on YouTube as they're very enjoyable.....JH in Va.
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Mark Eaton


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Post  Posted 20 Jul 2017 6:12 am    
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Harold titled the thread "Bluegrass Rock" - but beyond the idea that the lead singer might have more of a country/rock vibe than a traditional bluegrass voice, I don't think The Steeldrivers have much to do with bluegrass rock.

That might be more of a first impression one could pick up on in a brief listening as experienced by Harold.
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Tony Palmer


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St Augustine,FL
Post  Posted 21 Jul 2017 11:56 am    
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Here is yet another genre of bluegrass..."gangster" bluegrass. p.s. I love it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFr0jVOH0vc
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Brett Day


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Pickens, SC
Post  Posted 21 Jul 2017 9:32 pm    
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Mark Eaton wrote:
I've twice seen The Steeldrivers live and I have all their CDs. The most recent (The Muscle Shoals Recordings) won a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.

In other words - they're a pretty big deal.

They formed about nine years ago and two of the original members who are no longer on board were Chris Stapleton - one of the bigger things in recent years since sliced bread - and long-time Nashville all rounder who can play about anything, Mike Henderson.

I have come across folks in the past who might think of them as sort of an "acoustic rock" group because the lead singers, originally Stapleton and now Gary Nichols, don't sing lead in a tenor in the "high lonesome" vein of a Bill Monroe or Del McCoury so "the bluegrass police" tend to scoff at the sound because to them it isn't the real deal.

Hey - whatever - I sure like the band. All great players, and some very well written songs.

One of my favorite Steeldrivers tunes below, The River Runs Red - a beautiful and stirring piece of work about a chapter from The Civil War:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhHmQ6W8d3g
Mike Henderson released one song in the nineties that I heard called "Hillbilly Jitters", and in 1994, he wrote and recorded another song called "If The Jukebox Took Teardrops, which was my friend Danni Leigh's first single.
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Roy Carroll


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Post  Posted 31 Jul 2017 7:16 am    
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Here's a good 'un. Thunderstruck by Steve'n'Seagulls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc
and You Shook Me All Night Long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZS12RiBQ3o
Pretty innovative! Run with what you have!
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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 31 Jul 2017 12:48 pm    
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I would call this Bluegrass Rock ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q46Qu9DpzTs
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Joerg Hennig


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Post  Posted 15 Aug 2017 1:01 pm    
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I always love Cindy. Now here is something else that could be called Bluegrass Rock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qa9Z6uV7JI&list=PLWEp1a0AT2pnku6Eqrk9QQrjITTxB4379&index=3

I've been a fan of their singer/bass player Cheri Knight for years but the Blood Oranges had a style all their own, really one of the greatest forgotten underrated bands.
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gary pierce


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Rossville TN
Post  Posted 15 Aug 2017 5:50 pm    
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Here is some bluegrass twerking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFH1OUFpYbs
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Don R Brown


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Rochester, New York, USA
Post  Posted 16 Aug 2017 5:00 am    
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Roy Carroll wrote:
Here's a good 'un. Thunderstruck by Steve'n'Seagulls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc
and You Shook Me All Night Long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZS12RiBQ3o
Pretty innovative! Run with what you have!


Well, combining the two here's ThundHerStruck with "You Shook Me All Night Long". No steel, but you might enjoy watching anyway. Mr. Green

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPdQGhjgpWY
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Roy Carroll


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Post  Posted 24 Aug 2017 7:49 am    
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To Don:
I gotta get me one of those! Might be a death sentence though?
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