Recommend to me some "listening" bluegrass...

[cu4life7]

Not all of these are strickly bluegrass, but they are all unique and fantastic.

Trout Steak Revival
Molly Tuttle
I'm With Her
Mandolin Orange
Flatt Lonesome
Mipso
Della Mae
The Steel Wheels
Mustered Courage
National Park Radio
Caitlin Canty

[Flyingtigre]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

My all time favourite bluegrass band is Seldom Scene, back in the time of john Duffy and Mke Auldridge (my dobro hero).

I heartily recommend "Live at the Cellar Door"

We HAVE to mention Alison Krauss and Union Station. Whilst no-one can deny Jerry Douglas' skills on Dobro, I'd mention the band when Adam Steffey was still with them on mandolin - try "So Long, So Wrong" (1997) n.b - all of AK's albums are beautifully recorded and mixed.

Also, can't knock some of those ol' Flatt & Scruggs ! Try F& S "with the Foggy Mountain Boys" (about 1959!)

Also Country Gazette and the Pete Rowan bluegrass band.

I could go on ... and on and ......

I whole heartedly agree with Seldom Scene except that I prefer their earlier albums like Act 1 thru 3. The Country Gentlemen produced some excellent recordings but they went thru stages depending on personnel

If you like tasty instrumentals, get your hands on some of the Tut Taylor/Norman Blake albums. Take a listen to Copy Cat or Acoustic Toothpick.

Red, White and Blue (Grass) put out a couple of fine albums. Particularly their rendition of Nine Years Waltz from their first album - it's outstanding.

Ah, too many to list!

[Jambi]

Originally Posted by noledog

Anything and everything from Molly Tuttle and Billy Strings...my two favs!!

Wow nole, you picked my favorite examples from both people who got me interested in bluegrass.

[L20A]

Blue Highway
Dailey and Vincent
Newgrass Revival
Front Range
Hot Rise
Norman Blake
Tony Rice
Rhonda Vincent
Alison Krauss
Molly Tuttle
Krugger Brothers
Old Crow Medicine Show
Punch Brothers

[stephenT]

Steve Earl and the Del McCoury Band on "The Mountain" is pretty spectacular, the whole album is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qngIMw1kO4w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEuC5yPzqjk

[Zissou Intern]

For traditional BG, the Del McCoury Band, Nashville Bluegrass Band, and Hot Rize are my favorites. Ronnie McCoury and Mike Compton are absolutely fantastic mandolin pickers. Charles Sawtelle's guitar work in Hot Rize is amazing and almost beyond compare. His solos head off in directions making you wonder how he will bring it back in, and he always does (did).

Then there is the Sam Bush Band and Nickel Creek if you want to hear something a little less traditional.

[51 Relic]

Molly Tuttle . Her. Voice and playing is amazing . Listen to her new album Rise. Billy Strings is another favourite

[Reddevil97]

Blue Highway as far as modern bands goes. Absolutely top notch vocals.. harmony is scary good and music is excellent....Stanley Brothers for the old time bluegrass.

[Greg Rappleye]

This may seem counter-intuitive, but to hear what is really possible in contemporary bluegrass, I'd go back to the Seventies and listen to Earl Scruggs and the Earl Scruggs Review. "Live at Kansas State" (1972) is a particularly eye (and ear) opening collection.



Greg Rappleye

[romans5]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9n3...=RDz9n3pSYxCro

A Joe Walsh tune that I don't tire of listening to. He's got some great stuff.

Also, Courtney Hartman has a wide spectrum of bluegrassy type music out there.

[Penrith Pete]

I seem to be the first to mention these guys, which surprises me but I really like Chatham County Line. I think they are in the ballpark of what you are describing. I find them both trad and modern at the same time somehow.

[snoopster]

+1 for Mipso and I'll add Joy Kills Sorrow.

[BFD]

I also listen to and enjoy playing a wide variety of bluegrass. Here are some places to find what most folks who know bluegrass well would consider modern bluegrass (as opposed to any music played on acoustic instruments), and who you'll hear there->
- Serius/XM - Bluegrass Junction; Ned Luberecki's show 'Derailed'
- Larger bluegrass festivals; Greyfox, Telluride, Rockygrass, Bean Blossom, Merlefest, IBMA World of Bluegrass
- Worldwide Bluegrass online stream
- Berklee School of Music American Roots Program: a huge number of the current crop of bluegrass new schoolers are coming through this program.

Most serious bluegrass talent, including 'modern' will have a presence in one or more of these outlets. The lists posted by CU4Life7 & L20A certainly contain a number of these artists as do some other posts. I'd also include:
Darren & Brooke Aldridge
Kenny & Amanda Smith
The O'Connor Band
Dailey & Vincent
Lonely Heartstring Band
Steve Martin/Steep Canyon Rangers
Balsam Range
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen
Lonesome River Band
Michael Cleveland/Flamekeeper
Mountain Faith
Kristen Scott Benson
Alison Brown
Ricky Wasson
Sierra Hull
Sam Bush
Jacob Jolliff
Josh Williams
Becky Buller
Clay Jones
Jeff Autry
Tyler Grant

[bluesfreek]

Crooked Still

[PorkPieGuy]

There are only a handful of bluegrass bands/albums I can listen to. I think the thing I don't like about it is whenever you listen to a run-of-the-mill bluegrass band, you've pretty much heard everything they can do in about 3 songs. It all starts sounding the same to me.

The only ones I can listen to are Nickel Creek's first album, Mountain Heart, and pretty much anything by Alison Krauss. I went through a bluegrass phase several years ago, but these are all of the one's I can still stomach.