Ok, all you Bluegrass fans....

[aweynsayl]

I *adore* bluegrass, but I have none. Mom and I used to go to a festival in the mountains, and I've tried to get DH to take me to one here... but that's it.

Gimme some good recs for -- oh, ideally, one Great album.

TIA!!!

[nighten]

I am a selective blue grass fan haha. Where I live we have a bluegrass gathering every Friday night with local musicians and it can get a little hardcore Appalachia at times (I'm talking people with no teeth in overalls stomping around). But I adore Nickel Creek and would highly recommend, even to non-bluegrass fans. This one's my fave, though I admit I don't own the newest one so can't say if it might be better: Nickel Creek

[Citykid]

I have just one bluegrass album but I adore it - it is Bluegrass Invasion by Bluegrass Invasion. Ok I'll admit, these are the guys who did Man of Constant Sorrow for the O Brother movie, but there is some serious picking on this album.

[Titus2fam]

http://www.geocities.com/pickinwright/products.htm

Is link to the Wright Family's CD's, and I LOVE THEM! They are dulcimer players and get together with other musicians for these productions. My favorite is "The Old Country Church", but I also enjoy "Masters of the Wooden Nickel". Most of their CD's do have singing~is old time music considered bluegrass? Depends on who you talk to, I think.

I also have a few CD's that were just cheap compilations from K-Mart~we all adore one called "The Best of Banjo Music". (((((HUGS))))) and tell us what ya get!!!!! ~sandi

[newbie_mary]

I love "The Rough Guide to Bluegrass" and also a great Smithsonian Folkways compilation album of bluegrass. And anything with Alison Krauss!!!!!

Mary

[FarmerCathy]

Allison Kraus is my fav, but she's a little more mainstream. I have most of her albums. I have a favorite, but can't remember the title of it at the moment.

[mariank]

Doc Watson!!

[mariank]

and actually, Dolly Parton has a couple recent bluegrass albums that are really lovely... one in particular called The Grass is Blue that's great and there is another one but I'm forgetting the title, pretty recent, check em out!

[Titus2fam]

Mariank is RIGHT! Doc Watson is DA BOMB! (((((HUGS))))) sandi

[hairpin]

I don't really know if it's bluegrass. It's more like folk country to me. But I really like Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion.

exploration

[vegmama]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...Fencoding=UTF8

I like this one: O Sister!

[Titus2fam]

I also really enjoy Nickel Creek! How could I have forgotten them? I have their "Nickel Creek" CD. There was another I couldn't wait to share, but now I've forgotten it.... (((((HUGS))))) sandi