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Well it's been 10+ years, but here's an add on for this thread. Bela Fleck's "My Bluegrass Heart" is about 30% new grass and has many of the newer players, such as Billy Strings.

Interesting thread. Most of the posts precede the actual release. I got my copy three weeks ago and I have been listening to it constantly. First observation is that it IS pleasant background music....

Had to add an inquiry to this thread. I am listening to Ken Burns "Baseball" and the second volume has some terrific mandolin playing on it. Does anyone know which mandolin players Burns has used?

You can't do a sustain on the Mandolin, no matter how much one tries to imagine it. The slow pieces on the Bach CD are painful. Chris has always been ambitious and imaginative. Sometimes his reach...

I am only 3 cuts in, but have listened to the Debussy cut (3) three times. When Thile first appeared on Perpetual Motion" and then produced "Not All who Wander" my hope was for a reboot of classical...

Had the album cover in front of me and missed it. I dunno. I listened to it and said to myself, OK, how long is it going to take me to figure out all the characters in this song? In typical Thile...

When I knew this album was coming out, I wondered if they would just tread familiar ground. If you are both a Nickel Creek and a Thile Flying Circus fan (which I am ) the things you have been missing...

And isn't that an exciting thought? I am enjoying the ride. Funny, but his 12 year old stuff still sounds great to me.

This is a fairly simple, broad appreciation of the 4 disk MCA release "The Music of Bill Monroe from 1956 to 1994." This is not a critical review and I will not be criticizing Bill's music AT ALL. I...

I think it's more like a reminder LP that they do covers and slightly more tradtional stuff when they feel like it, sort of like the DVD in the deluxe version of Antifogmatic

I would characterize this album's main sound as lounge grass. It has a relaxed, slightly intoxicated flavor. It's very expertly played, but it feels like Noam is on a well earned vacation from the...

Thanks for the suggestions.

I have been recently enjoying Sarah Jarosz first album and really appreciating the blend of older and newer music. Now obviously, this has been done recently in the Nickle Creek albums (especially...

Raining at Sunset

Ride the Wild Turkey: bluegrass
Rye Whiskey: bluegrass
99 years / Train 45: bluegrass
Man chicken: bluegrass (with side of Newgrass)

These guys can play anything. Having said that, I just...

Heard "My Style" at a dinner party the other night and was wowed immediately. The guy has a great balanced of clean and traditional sounds. Ordered the album immediately.

Check out his first two albums.

The idea is to explore the albums and to express personal tastes. Some people ( I would be one ) was not aware of "Fair Weather" even though both albums have a number of players who play on both.

I have totally gotten into Alison Brown's "Fair Weather" and have always loved Bela Fleck's "Tales from the Acoustic Planet II, The Bluegrass Sessions."

So if you had to pick?

Have to divide this into two categories: Bell tone and Jazz Tone.

Bell Tone: Thile, Hull, Reichman, Steffey

Jazz Tone: Marshall, Bush, Monroe, Grisman

One of the things I love about the...

Nice to see Chris walking in his father's shoes a bit. I am thinking of 10 years from now and imagining him as a professor and mainly doing avante gard classical composition work. He'd be past his...

CT really has a thing about sea stories.

But the Bach piece also says a lot about him... many notes, played very fast, but creating a flow that is loaded with melodic impact and beauty. That's...

"I bought the Loar to gain acceptance from the bluegrass community, whose acceptance and admiration I greatly desire...."

CT

Great post. And since Thile and Marshall made two albums together, it makes it easy to compare.

When I first listened to "Into the Cauldron" I found Marshall somewhat sloppy and Thile very precise...

Funny thing.... I picked up an Alison Brown (Banjo CD) and there was Stuart Duncan and Sam Bush and a piano and drums and Mike Marshall and it was really good music, but whew! No Thile. So it was all...