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Bluegrass Jam Along

Matt Hutchinson

"Bluegrass Jam Along is a great, great podcast" - Chris EldridgeThe IBMA Award winning podcast for anyone and everyone who loves bluegrass.Every week we feature interviews with musicians, writers, instrument makers and other key figures from the bluegrass and string band world, plus regular news and new releases.Guests include Alison Krauss, Sierra Hull, Tim O"Brien, Wyatt Rice, Jerry Douglas, Sarah Jarosz, Jarrod Walker and David Grisman.For more info visit https://bluegrassjamalong.com

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70:18

Alister Atkin (Atkin Guitars) - Building new guitars...

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2024/07/24

My guest this week is Alister Atkin of Atkin Guitars.I've been following Atkin's progress for a few years now and have been blown away by the quality of guitars they're producing. They combine some cutting edge techniques with a bespoke approach, to bring out the uniqueness of every guitar they make. As Alister puts it: 'We're all about getting the feel and the sound of the instrument, and the aura of a great instrument.'We talk about some of these processes, including baking wood, freezing g...

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14:38

Bluegrass Briefing - July 22nd 2024

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2024/07/22

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.News and Announcements (Church Street News)IBMA award nomineesReleases (The Grass is New)David Grisman & the Rounder Album Band - Live at Grass ValleyThe Grass is (mostly) New 2024 playlistOther bitsSign up for emails https://bluegrassjamalong.com/contact/The Grass is (mostly) New 2024 playlistFull list of i...

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55:19

Happy Traum (Homespun Tapes) repost

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2024/07/22

Last week we lost Happy Traum, one of the shining lights of acoustic music for over half a century.It’s hard to fully grasp, in our online world where everything is right there whenever we need it, just what an enormous contribution Happy and the Homespun team made to helping people learn roots and acoustic music.I was lucky enough to get to chat to Happy a couple of times for the podcast, and he spoke about how strongly he felt that their role was to document, as well as teach. Watching the ...

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66:35

Roger Siminoff - Celebrating Lloyd Loar and the...

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2024/07/17

My guest this week is Roger Siminoff. Not only is Roger an authority on instrument making, the physics of music and tap tuning, he's also an expert on the life and work of Lloyd Loar.Loar worked at Gibson in the early 1920s and oversaw the production of some truly remarkable, game changing instruments - most notably the F5 mandolin, which went on to become an integral part of bluegrass music and shape how we see mandolins for the next 100 years.We talked about Lloyd Loar's background, why his...

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11:54

Bluegrass Briefing - July 15th 2024

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2024/07/16

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.News and Announcements (Church Street News)IBMA Black String Band SymposiumVolunteer at IBMAEmail volunteer@ibma.org for more infoReleases (The Grass is New)The Grass is (mostly) New 2024 playlistScroll on BuddyEast Nash Grass at DelFestTony Rice Native American vinyl reissueOther bitsSign up for emails https://...

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71:20

Celebrating Bela Fleck's 'Drive' with Chris Eldridge...

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2024/07/09

My guest on the podcast this week is Chris Eldridge, guitarist with Punch Brothers and Mighty Poplar.Chris is not only one of my favourite guitarists, he's also one of my favourite people I've had on as a guest, so I'm delighted to welcome him back to Bluegrass Jam Along to celebrate the podcast's 400th episode.In this special episode we're chatting about Bela Fleck's ground breaking record Drive. It's a record that's really important to Chris, and also played a key role in the early days of ...

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Bluegrass Briefing - July 8th 2024

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2024/07/08

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.Podcast News Gabe Witcher interviewBrittany Haas interviewReleases (The Grass is New)The Grass is (mostly) New 2024 playlistScroll on BuddyFretboard SummitIBMA Bluegrass RambleOther bitsSign up for emails https://bluegrassjamalong.com/contact/The Grass is (mostly) New 2024 playlistFull list of interviewsPeg...

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34:56

Brittany Haas on joining Punch Brothers

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2024/07/02

My guest on the podcast this week is Brittany Haas, fiddle player with Hawktail and, now, Punch Brothers!I interviewed Gabe Witcher last June, a few days after he played his final shows with Punch Brothers at Telluride. Almost exactly a year later to the day I spoke with Brittany to chat about joining the band as his replacement. Brittany had just played with Punch Brothers at Telluride, so there was a lovely symmetry to it.We chatted about how Brittany got the gig, the challenges of replacin...

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11:46

Bluegrass Briefing - July 1st 2024

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2024/07/01

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.News and announcements - Church Street News IBMA International Booth info Contact Christopher Howard Williams (IBMA board member) via the contact form on the Bluegrass in La Roche websiteNice Like That Kickstarter pageBlue Ridge Banjo CampReleases (The Grass is New)The Grass is (mostly) New 2024 playli...

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57:16

Ruth Oxenberg and Rob Schumer's Bluegrass Journey

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2024/06/26

My guests this week are Ruth Oxenberg and Rob Schumer.They join me to talk about a very special series of concerts they've curated called Bluegrass on Hudson, which are happening at The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, in New York's Hudson Valley.But we start by talking about a wonderful documentary they directed and produced called Bluegrass Journey. It's a movie I've watched multiple times and really love. We chat about how they got into bluegrass in the first place (i...

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54:07

Tony Trischka on Earl Jam

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2024/06/11

My guest this week is Tony Trischka, who returns to Bluegrass Jam Along to chat about his superb new record Earl Jam.We talk about Tony receiving a thumb drive containing 200 unheard recordings of Earl Scruggs jamming with John Hartford, and his amazement at not just how many tunes were on there that he'd never heard Earl play, but also hearing Earl play in different styles and tunings too.Tony started transcribing the breaks and that was the start of the project that became Earl Jam, w...

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Bluegrass Briefing - June 10th 2024

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2024/06/10

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.News and announcements - Church Street News Peghead Nation - Weekly Mandolin WorkoutReleases (The Grass is New)The Grass is (mostly) New 2024 playlistScroll on BuddyBilly Strings and Bryan Sutton at Blue Ridge Guitar CampOther bitsSign up for emails https://bluegrassjamalong.com/contact/The Grass is (mostly...

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Alison Krauss Remembers Tony Rice

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2024/06/08

Today - June 8th - is Tony Rice's birthday. To celebrate, I'm reposting the chat I had with Alison Krauss as part of the 'Church Street Blues' 40th anniversary celebrations last year. The final episodes ended up being almost 5 hours long, so I thought it would be fun to re-post this as a standalone episode for those who missed it (or just want to listen again to celebrate Tony's birthday).In this episode Alison talks about what Tony's music means to her and shares some memories of spending ti...

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49:54

Jacob Jolliff Interview

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2024/06/04

My guest this week is Jacob Jolliff, who joins me to talk about his wonderful new record Instrumentals 2: Mandolin MysteriesWe talk about the process of writing the record and how many of the tunes began on piano rather than mandolin, plus the great band Jacob assembled to record and tour the album. We also chat about what it was like to sit in with Bela Fleck for part of the My Bluegrass Heart tour and some of the things Jacob leaned from Bela about rehearsing and leading a band in the proce...

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Bluegrass Briefing - May 29th 2024

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2024/05/29

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.News and announcements - Church Street News IBMA international stageFisher Center’s Bluegrass on Hudson 2024 SeriesReleases (The Grass is New)David Grisman’s Unexpurgated GrassThe Grass is (mostly) New 2024 playlistIn my earsAlan Rusbridger - Play It AgainOther bitsSign up for emails https://bluegrassjamalo...

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35:33

Bronwyn Keith-Hynes on her new record 'I Built a...

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2024/05/22

My guest this week is Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, who returns to chat about her great new record 'I Built a World', which comes out on Friday May 24th.This is Bronwyn's first record as a lead singer and we chat about her song choices, the musicians she chose for the record, the wonderful line up of backing singers she has and how the record came together.We also talk about the journey Bronwyn's been on over the past couple of years with Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway, including winning a Grammy.You...

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Bluegrass Briefing - May 20th 2024

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2024/05/20

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.News and announcements - Church Street News Blue Ridge Music Center Summer SeriesBlue Highway FestIBMA ticketsReleases (The Grass is New)The Grass is (mostly) New 2024 playlistScroll on BuddyBilly Strings Marc Maron interviewOther bitsSign up for emails https://bluegrassjamalong.com/contact/The Grass is (mo...

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58:01

Oliver Burkeman on Why Now is the Time To Do the...

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2024/05/15

My guest this week is Oliver Burkeman, best-selling author of the book 'Four Thousand Weeks - Time Management for Mortals.''Four Thousand Weeks' isn't a book about bluegrass, or American acoustic music...or even about music. But, it addresses so many of the the things that can trip us up and stop us from making the space in our lives for the things we love, like music.I'm not entirely sure this podcast would exist if I hadn't read Oliver's book. The fact that it's lasted long enough for this ...

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Bluegrass Briefing - May 13th 2024

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2024/05/12

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.Podcast newsDave Sinko interviewNews and announcements - Church Street News North Carolina Guitar CelebrationTelluride LineupReleases (The Grass is New)The Grass is (mostly) New 2024 playlistOther bitsSign up for emails https://bluegrassjamalong.com/contact/The Grass is (mostly) New 2024 playlistFull list o...

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59:08

Dave Sinko - Capturing Sound for Punch Brothers and...

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2024/05/07

My guest this week is legendary sound engineer Dave Sinko.Dave joins me to talk about his 17 year collaboration with Punch Brothers, including running their live sound, from using mics and pickups on every instrument, right down to single mic shows (and most points in between).We also chatted about Dave's long standing collaboration with Edgar Meyer, recording some of the most influential records in all of acoustic music, including Uncommon Ritual, plus why building a racing yacht is very sim...

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