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.

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Pod news

• Tony Rice Church Street Blues 40th anniversary celebration part 1
• Dan Tyminski interview
• Chris Eldridge interview
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Church Street News

• Heart of the Ozarks Bluegrass Association
• My Name is Merle documentary
• Tony Rice Memorial Day Music Fest

The Grass is New - new releases

• The Grass is New Spotify playlist

Scroll on Buddy

• Billy Strings Played Tony Rice’s Guitar (Lessons With Marcel)

Happy picking.

Matt

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Welcome to the first of two very special episodes of Bluegrass Jam Along.

Tony Rice's classic album 'Church Street Blues' is 40 years old this year. To celebrate, I've spent the last 3 months interviewing people about it and this is part one of the results.

In this episode you'll hear from people who knew, played with, worked with and spent time with Tony, including an interview with Wyatt Rice, who was the only person other than Tony to play on 'Church Street Blues.' This is the first time Wyatt has really spoken publicly about Tony since he passed.

You'll also hear from Mike Marshall, who talks about 1750 Arch Street, the studio where this, and many other wonderful records were made.

The full line up for this episode is:

1. Tim Stafford
2. Wyatt Rice
3. Mike Marshall
4. Alison Krauss
5. Bryan Sutton
6. Chris Eldridge
7. Caroline Wright
   
   

Part two is out next week and features a whole host of great players who were inspired by Tony and his records. 

This was such a joy to make - I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed making it!

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.

Pod news

• Rachel Baiman interview
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Church Street News

• Matt Flinner mandolin courses

The Grass is New - new releases

• The Grass is New Spotify playlist

Scroll on Buddy

• Billy Strings and Willie Nelson - California Sober

In my ears this week

• The Grass is New Spotify playlist

Happy picking.

Matt

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My guest this week is singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Baiman.

We chat about Rachel's new record Common Nation of Sorrow, how she made the transition from being an instrumentalist to being a songwriter, how she re-imagined a little known John Hartford song for the new record, why it can be good to include covers on your records as a songwriter and much, much more.

This was such an interesting conversation. I hope you get as much out of it as I did!

Matt

More info on Rachel

Rachel's website - http://www.rachelbaiman.com/

Follow Rachel:

Instagram -  https://www.instagram.com/rachelbaiman/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Rachelbaimanmusic/

Rachel also mentioned a playlist of songs that inspired the production of Common Nation of Sorrow - you'll find it here on Spotify

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Thanks to Bryan Sutton for his wonderful theme tune to Bluegrass Jam Along (and to Justin Moses for playing the fiddle!)

Bluegrass Jam Along is proud to be sponsored by Collings Guitars and Mandolins

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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.

Pod news

• Sign up for email alerts

The Grass is New - new releases

• The Grass is New Spotify playlist
• Tony Rice live recordings
  • Tony & Wyatt Rice - Together!
  • The Tony Rice Unit - A Beautiful New Year’s Eve
  • The Tony Rice Unit Live at the Birchmere

Scroll on Buddy

• Yamaha FG9
• Jake and Jordan - Roll on Buddy
• Toneslabs pick care video on instagram

In my ears this week

• The Grass is New Spotify playlist

Happy picking.

Matt

Support the show

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Thanks to Bryan Sutton for his wonderful theme tune to Bluegrass Jam Along (and to Justin Moses for playing the fiddle!)

Bluegrass Jam Along is proud to be sponsored by Collings Guitars and Mandolins

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- Free fiddle tune chord sheets

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Hi everybody.

I recently released two special episodes to celebrate Doc Watson's 100th birthday. I chatted to so many amazing people for them I ended up with almost 5 hours of content!

I'm aware not everyone has the time to listen to that much content, so I've decided to pull out some of the key bits and release them as standalone episodes, for those of you who'd like to hear these interviews separately.

This is the fascinating chat I had with Tim O'Brien. I hope you enjoy it!

If you already heard the Doc episodes then you've heard this - it's the same content. If not and this has whetted your appetite, you'll find them here:

Part 1

Part 2


Happy picking,
Matt

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Hi everybody.

I recently released two special episodes to celebrate Doc Watson's 100th birthday. I chatted to so many amazing people for them I ended up with almost 5 hours of content!

I'm aware not everyone has the time to listen to that much content, so I've decided to pull out some of the key bits and release them as standalone episodes, for those of you who'd like to hear these interviews separately.

Here's my chat with Doc's bass player T. Michael Coleman. I hope you enjoy it!

If you already heard the Doc episodes then you've heard this - it's the same content. If not and this has whetted your appetite, you'll find them here:

Part 1

Part 2


Happy picking,
Matt

Support the show

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Thanks to Bryan Sutton for his wonderful theme tune to Bluegrass Jam Along (and to Justin Moses for playing the fiddle!)

Bluegrass Jam Along is proud to be sponsored by Collings Guitars and Mandolins

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- Free fiddle tune chord sheets

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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.

Pod news

• Sign up for email alerts

Church Street News

• Tyler Grant’s new ArtistWorks course
• Tyler's Facebook
• IBMA tickets
• Billy Strings tour
• Inside the Musician’s Brain podcast

The Grass is New - new releases

• The Grass is New Spotify playlist

In my ears this week

• The Grass is New Spotify playlist

Happy picking.

Matt

Support the show

===

Thanks to Bryan Sutton for his wonderful theme tune to Bluegrass Jam Along (and to Justin Moses for playing the fiddle!)

Bluegrass Jam Along is proud to be sponsored by Collings Guitars and Mandolins

- Sign up to get updates on new episodes

- Free fiddle tune chord sheets

- Here's a list of all the Bluegrass Jam Along interviews

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Hi everybody.

Last month I released two special episodes to celebrate Doc Watson's 100th birthday. I chatted to so many amazing people for them I ended up with almost 5 hours of content!

I'm aware not everyone has the time to listen to that much content, so I've decided to pull out some of the key bits and release them as standalone episodes, for those of you who'd like to hear these interviews separately.

The first one is my chat with Doc's long serving musical partner Jack Lawrence. I hope you enjoy it!

If you already heard the Doc episodes then you've heard this - it's the same content. If not and this has whetted your appetite, you'll find them here:

Part 1

Part 2

I'll release a couple more of these over the coming weeks, so keep your eyes peeled!

Happy picking,
Matt

Support the show

===

Thanks to Bryan Sutton for his wonderful theme tune to Bluegrass Jam Along (and to Justin Moses for playing the fiddle!)

Bluegrass Jam Along is proud to be sponsored by Collings Guitars and Mandolins

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This week we're playing another tune back to back at two different speeds  - once at 75 bpm then again at 85. We're doing Saint Anne's Reel and we're in the key of D.

We're using the jam along format - that means I'm kicking off playing backup and you're on the tune, then we swap and go round 4 times. Then, after a quick pause, we do the whole thing again at 85 bpm.

Don't forget to grab a chord sheet if you need one from bluegrassjamalong.com

Happy picking!
Matt

Support the show

===

Thanks to Bryan Sutton for his wonderful theme tune to Bluegrass Jam Along (and to Justin Moses for playing the fiddle!)

Bluegrass Jam Along is proud to be sponsored by Collings Guitars and Mandolins

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- Free fiddle tune chord sheets

- Here's a list of all the Bluegrass Jam Along interviews

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