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My father in law loves blue grass musice and plays the banjo. He is kind of hard to shop for , I want to think of something he would really love or get use from. I do not know much about blue grass at all – any suggestions.

Bela Fleck, one of the great banjo players, has a DVD called "Throw Down Your Heart" about the history and development of the banjo. You can get it from Target.
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/180-7454884-6110912?asin=B002ODQXAM&afid=yahoosspplp_bmvd&CPNG=movies&lnm=B002ODQXAM|Bela-Fleck-Throw-Down-Heart_:_Movie&ref=tgt_adv_XSNG1060

Check out Bela’s site for more ideas:

Bela Fleck: The Official Website

The final segment from the IBMA documentary on American bluegrass music scene, covering the recent years 2000-2005. Nickel Creek and Josh Williams are featured.

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Or any other music with fiddles? Cajun, maybe? Not Scottish or Irish as I already already have those. Thanks in advance.

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To get the entire movie go to http://www.createspace.com/204609 It was back in 1964. New York City filmmaker, David Hoffman, age 22, was headed down with his new 16mm hand held camera (weight 49 lbs!) to spend three weeks driving the backcountry around Madison County, North Carolina, in the center of Appalachia, with the 82 year old founder of the pioneer Asheville Mountain Music and Dance Festival, Bascom Lamar Lunsford.

The resulting film, “Bluegrass Roots” lets you hear and experience the hard scrabbling, dirt road real people sounds that dominated the back country of the southern mountains 40 years ago. It presents a string of the most extraordinary singers, players and dancers the BlueGrass Mountains had to offer. Many later became famous. Some were never heard from again. Most of the songs are classics, including Lunsford’s own tune, “Mountain Dew.”

When this film aired on Public Television in 1965, TV Guide gave it a full-page positive review, because Americans had never seen a documentary on the roots of Bluegrass and country music. Today, the dirt roads and the moonshine counties are largely modernized, and Bluegrass Roots, stands as a record of a uniquely talented group of people at a time just before the coming of television, changed them.
www.thehoffmancollection.com

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I like the old old southern bluegrass music, even the ones with the religious lyrics. Do you know of any famous singers or songs from that era? I’m trying to get a bunch of good songs to search for, thanks!

Flatt & Scruggs
Bill Monroe

If you are wanting a sample to get you into that kind of music, get "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (make sure it is volume 1). There are alot of vintage country and bluegrass standards on that album. The reason it is a good starting point is that they bring in alot of legends to sing old songs. So it would get you a good starting point for some older singers you might want to look into. Another advantage it has as a starting point is that the studio clarity is good. You have to be really committed to liking old bluegrass because alot of the recordings are really old and do not have the studio clarity we are used to.

To get this entire 90 minute film go to https://www.createspace.com/205698 This music Documentary presents Earl Scruggs with many greats including Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Earl’s sons Randy and Gary, The Morris Borthers, The Byrds, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez among many others. in informal scenes playing & singing together. If you love old time bluegrass music, you will love watching this. The film was not available to the public for over 30 years,. Said Bruce Elder of The All Music Guide: ” There are great scenes at the Grand Ole Opry with Bill Monroe, at the homes of Doc Watson and members of Earl’s family, at the The Byrds ranch, at the home of The Morris Brothers (Salty Dog Blues), with Bob Dylan, etc. etc. The music here is glorious.” Earl Scruggs: The Bluegrass Legend is the only full-length film on Earl’s life & times. www.thehoffmancollection.com

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If someone were to get into the bluegrass music business would it be a dud. Please do some research.

I grew up listening to bluegrass music, I love it. Women like Alison Krauss and Rhonda Vincent have made it popular among the younger generations. It takes a lot of talent to make the bluegrass sound, as it does in any genre. It is really popular in the older generation as well as die hard country music fans. If you got the talent, I would say go for it. There are many great bluegrass singers/bands such as Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Alison Krauss, Rhonda VIncent, Osborne Brothers, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Jim and Jesse, Mac Wiseman, Grandpa Jones, Roy Clark, Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, Jimmy Martin, Seldom Scene, Del McCoury, the Dillards -the band off of Andy Griffith Show. A good movie to watch would be O Brother Where Art Thou, which is my favorite movie.

There has been a lot of success in bluegrass music. If it is what you love to do, go for it, follow your dreams. It is a pure, wholesome genre that many still love to stomp their feet to.

Clip video of Bob & Rose Savoy,bluegrass music produced by DecouvertesCountry.com

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Good ol’ fast bluegrass guitar (Doc Watson, Yonder Mt. String Band, etc.) What scales do they play?

Pentatonic scales are the staple of rock guitar. They are also widely used in jazz, blues, country and bluegrass music. This fact makes pentatonic scales a very important part of learning to play.

So, what are pentatonic scales?

Technically speaking, any scale composed of five notes can be called a pentatonic scale (penta = five and tonic = notes). In the real world, however, learning only two different pentatonic scales will cover 99.9% of the playing situations that you will encounter. These two scales are referred to as the MAJOR PENTATONIC and the MINOR PENTATONIC.

It’s a school assignment. I have to make an arguement of one thing in societ that affected blue grass music. It needs to be only 6 sentences long.

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