Bluegrass, Newgrass

We’re taking a trip up into hill country to celebrate a true Americana sound. From it’s simple roots rolling out of Appalachia, celebrating music and culture going back even further, bluegrass music evolved from many different corners with a combination of many styles, including old-time mountain music, square dance fiddling, blues, gospel, jazz, and popular music. You can count on high energy, fast tempos and a most distinctive sound. This week’s show has the syncopated rhythms moving along like a freight train, those nostalgic remembrances, and heel-kicking improvisations…not to mention those high lonesome vocals. We’ve got Blue Highway, Bill Monroe, Mac Wiseman, Earl Scruggs, The Rice Brothers and a couple dozen others in a Friday morning bluegrass extravaganza, sharing both classic and contemporary performers. If you’re close by, tune into KOWS 92.5 FM or, better yet, stream us almost anywhere on planet Earth at kowsfm.com/listen.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Morris Brothers Salty Dog Blues Legends Of Bluegrass [Disc 3] Amazon
3Bill Monroe I'm Travelin' On and On 1947-1949 (Warped 4988) Amazon
4Bill Monroe Crossing the Cumberlands Bluegrass 1959-1969 [Disc 4] Amazon
5Jimmy Martin Footprints in the Snow First Time Together Amazon
6The Dillards Dooley There Is A Time: 1963-70 Amazon
7Rhonda Vincent Lonesome Wind Blues Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
8The Gentlemen of Bluegrass Old Old House Carolina Memories Amazon
9John Hartford Skippin' In The Mississippi Dew Good'le Days: Essential Recordings Amazon
10John Hartford Take Me Back To My Mississippi River Home Good'le Days: Essential Recordings Amazon
11Blue Highway Riding the Danville Pike Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
12The David Thom Band Home Is Where The Heart Is That Old Familiar Amazon
13The David Thom Band The Little White Church That Old Familiar Amazon
14Alison Krauss & Union Station So Long So Wrong Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
15Ricky Skaggs I Hope You've Learned Ricky Skaggs Amazon
16Ralph Stanley Dad's Old Rocky Field Old Songs & Ballads Amazon
17The Rice Brothers Grapes On the Vine Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
18Hazel Dickens I Can't Find Your Love Any More O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection Amazon
19Del McCoury A Far Cry Celebrating 50 Years of del McCoury (Disc 4) Amazon
20Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver As Long As the World Stands The Hard Game of Love Amazon
21Earl Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys/Lester Flatt Randy Lynn Rag The Essential Earl Scruggs (1 of 2) Amazon
22The Johnson Mountain Boys Duncan & Brady Hills Of Home: 25 Years Of Folk Music On Rounder Records Amazon
23The Johnson Mountain Boys Orange Blossom Special Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 2] Amazon
24Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys Dusty Miller Bill Monroe: Anthology Amazon
25Mac Wiseman I Wonder How The Old Folks Are Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 2] Amazon
26Steep Canyon Rangers As I Go Nobody Knows You Amazon
27Laurie Lewis Tall Pines Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
28Jim Lauderdale Old Time Angels Old Time Angels Amazon
29Jim & Jesse Nine Pound Hammer Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1] Amazon
30The Seldom Scene Muddy Water Time-Life's Treasury Of Bluegrass [Disc 1] Amazon
31Bobby Hicks & Del McCoury We're Steppin' Out Tonight Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
32Lynn Morris Band The Bramble and the Rose Bluegrass Number 1's: A Collection of Chart-Topping Songs Amazon
33Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys Hit Parade of Love Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys Amazon
34Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers Get Up John At The Ryman [Live] Amazon

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