RIP JD Crowe

Illustrious Potentate

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One of the best banjo pickers to ever do it. His band, The New South was a powerhouse in the bluegrass world. Doyle Lawson, Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, Tony Rice and Keith Whitley all got their starts in JD's band. Got to see him several times in Maggie Valley, NC as a kid at Raymond Fairchild's Opry House. This video was from the same venue, but I wasn't there.

 
And Doyle Lawson is performing for the last time today. Retiring. Bluegrass is dying
 
Kburjr said:
Not by what I saw last summer at a couple of festivals I went to.
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There’s a lot of good talent. I was more or less referring to the bluegrass that I grew up with. Bluegrass is a much newer genre than people realize. JD and Doyle are really the second generation of the genre. Earl Scruggs was around for the beginning in Bill Monroe’s band
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
There’s a lot of good talent. I was more or less referring to the bluegrass that I grew up with. Bluegrass is a much newer genre than people realize. JD and Doyle are really the second generation of the genre. Earl Scruggs was around for the beginning in Bill Monroe’s band
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Bluegrass is alive and well in Central Illinois due to Alison Krauss and Union Station.
 
Kburjr said:
Bluegrass is alive and well in Central Illinois due to Alison Krauss and Union Station.
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Are they still a thing? I know Alison Kraus just released another duet album with Robert Plant.

Nickel Creek>>>
 
Kburjr said:
They are around here. Plant came to bluegrass not Krauss to rock.
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They had an album together several years ago too. They ain’t bad together. I wouldn’t call it bluegrass(or rock) though
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
Are they still a thing? I know Alison Kraus just released another duet album with Robert Plant.

Nickel Creek>>>
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I'm pretty sure that Chris Thile made a crossroads transaction at some point in his childhood. I think that the truly underrated one in that old group is Sean.
 
DragonFromTo said:
I'm pretty sure that Chris Thile made a crossroads transaction at some point in his childhood. I think that the truly underrated one in that old group is Sean.
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I consider myself to be a pretty proficient mandolin player, but I ain’t got shit on Chris
 
Kburjr said:
Will listen to some later. Thanks for the pointer. I am more old school.
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Old school bluegrass is some of my favorite music. Jimmy Martin is considered a god in my house
 
Kburjr said:
I have watched that scenes many, many times and I'll watch it many times more. TY
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I watched that movie as a kid and liked it but I had no idea until I was older how good a job they did with the authenticity. Arlen Roth is the one to thank for that as I understand it.
 
DragonFromTo said:
I watched that movie as a kid and liked it but I had no idea until I was older how good a job they did with the authenticity. Arlen Roth is the one to thank for that as I understand it.
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I watched it the first time after it was out a few years on the advise of a musician friend when I worked in Indianapolis and starting hanging at the Slippery Noodle. I was seriously into electrified blues then.
 
Kburjr said:
I watched it the first time after it was out a few years on the advise of a musician friend when I worked in Indianapolis and starting hanging at the Slippery Noodle. I was seriously into electrified blues then.
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My skills are not good enough to even attempt small bits of this shit.
 
Kburjr said:
My skills are not good enough to even attempt small bits of this shit.
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No shame at all in that confession my friend, as I'm sure you know :laugh: Vai and Roth are two of the greatest to ever do it

edit: And he's still got it

 
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