Bluegrass, Finger Lickin' Good! The Top 10 Best?

[Hakim]

Re: Bluegrass, Finger Lickin\' Good! The Top 10 Best?

Hi Gary,

I limited it to 10, because now with yours and all the others, I've got 50 or 60 to go and listen to. This is real fun though. I used to be your basic idiot about Bluegrass, and at least now I know the learner's vocabulary.

Honestly, many thanks to you and all the others for so many great names and bands.

 

[fivestring]

Re: Bluegrass, Finger Lickin\' Good! The Top 10 Best?

He was like Bigfoot.
Folks saw the Mothman and soon something awful would happen. In November of 1966, a lady from your home area had a dream of seeing the Mothman and Christmas presents in water somewhere with people screaming. The next day, the Point Pleasant bridge over the Ohio river collapsed, killing 46 and injuring another 20. There is a book out about the Mothman. There was also a lame movie called the Mothman Prophesies starring Richard Gere.

 

[CountryBoy]

Re: Bluegrass, Finger Lickin\' Good! The Top 10 Best?

Dick,
I am about 30 miles from Marietta.

 

[CountryBoy]

Re: Bluegrass, Finger Lickin\' Good! The Top 10 Best?

The mothman is a so called space alien or something from down around Gallipolis Ohio I believe.
They had a bunch of so called UFO sightings in the late 1960's around here.A guy named
Woody Dernberger supposedly was stopped on I-77 and picked up interogated by an alien named Ingrid Cole.Life magazine even had a special issue on all of these sightings.Its funny a lot of the pictures were kitchen lights super imposed.They even had the state police directing traffic people were waiting along the highway one night in
this one
area waiting for a meeting with Ingrid Cole,it seems he was suppose to come back and talk to Woody,there were hundreds of people,cars parked on the berms etc.
Of course some of these guys had there fun too,they were placing flashlights in these large plastic bags and filling them up with helium and turning them loose after dark and letting them float up in the air.

 

[pruntyc]

Re: Bluegrass, Finger Lickin\' Good! The Top 10 Best?

Yes I sure remember the silver bridge, those poor people never had a chance. I can't imagine what it would be like to have a bridge drop with you on it, in your car. I guess it would be quick in some ways but the water probably killed some of them. You know some from the impact and some from drowning. And yes I do remember some about the "UFO" picking up the guy. They had some sort of sighting they said around St Marys W.Va. before the turn of the century, from what I have read. I'm afraid I don't take much stock in the mothman or ufo sightings. I'll bet the boys had some fun with it at that time.

 

[CountryBoy]

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I was a kid when all of that was going on.A lot of bad times for some people back then
Silver Bridge disaster
Farmington mine disaster
Marshall University football team air disaster
Earthen (coal company owned)dam that broke at Man West Virginia and wiped out all of those small towns.
Willow Island disaster in 1978 when the workers were building a cooling tower at the power plant and the scaffolding give away and killed all 51(I believe + or- ) workers

 

[8NTX]

Re: Bluegrass, Finger Lickin\' Good! The Top 10 Best?

Allison Kraus and Union Station are my favorite group. Many of the others featured on the 'O Brother soundtrack are also good including the Cox Family, the Weavers, Dan Tyminski (sang Man of Constant Sorrow - a member of Union Station). I also like the Dillards (remember the Darlin boys on the old Andy Griffith show?). Ricky Skaggs is good, Vince Gill, and Del McCoury also. Some of the Dixie Chicks songs are excellent and heavily bluegrass influenced but their politics and big-mouthed lead singer has all but turned me off from them lately.

 

[Hondo]

Re: Bluegrass, Finger Lickin\' Good! The Top 10 Best?

I also like music featuring blue grass instrumentation in other contexts. CDs like Strength in Numbers, featuring Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, Mark O'Connor, Jerry Douglas and Edgar Meyer, or Short Trip Home, with Meyer, Bush, Mike Marshall and classical violinist, Joshua Bell, not to mention Chris Thile's Not All Who Wander Are Lost, and his recent collaboration with Mike Marshall. Great stuff!

 

[fivestring]

Re: Bluegrass, Finger Lickin\' Good! The Top 10 Best?

<font color="blue">"I also like music featuring blue grass instrumentation in other contexts." </font>

I like the way you worded that because Thile, Fleck and others are NOT Bluegrass...

I like some of their music, also. It's amazing what Bela Fleck can do with a banjo and what Chris Thile can do with a mandolin. But Bluegrass??? No.
"Bluegrass instrumentation in other contexts." Yes.

 

[Hondo]

Re: Bluegrass, Finger Lickin\' Good! The Top 10 Best?

Yeah, I don't think Bach had the banjo in mind while composing his Two-Part Inventions...

But I like what those guys do, the interesting combinations, the music they form together and apart.