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not strictly bluegrass, but some fine pickin’ nonetheless
(via nprmusic)
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thehappiestbacksliderintheworld:
Steve Martin and Noam Pikelny play Dueling Banjos.
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Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers — Women Like To Slow Dance
This song’s so sick
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Tonight’s Bluegrass is once again brought to you by Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers
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“Pretty Little One” — Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers
“There’s a class of songs in bluegrass called murder ballads….but I’m making this sound funnier than it is.”
Got a chance to see them at a show in my town and fell in love with this song. The murder ballad is a terrible (and luckily mostly outdated) convention in bluegrass/ folk music. What makes this song great is that it follows the letter of the genre law but not the spirit — I wouldn’t call it parody, but more of an inversion through using the form of the surprise comic ending.*
I also like how her name is used not to objectify the woman (“pretty little Sadie”) but to empower her:
“My name is Lucy Allen Cott, and you should know that I was not your pretty little one.”
*Is there a more specific name for that kind of song? I’m thinking things like “Johnny Be Fair,” “Seven Drunken Nights,” or “The One” by Gaelic Storm.
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Mark Johnson (Steve Martin Banjo Prize Winner) playing Jerusalem Ridge. (A tune I can barely play three-finger style, and he’s knocking it out of the park with clawhammer!)
I guess he calls it “Clawgrass.” Perfect amalgamation.
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I can’t sit down//Steep Canyon Rangers
Beautifully done. At the concert on sunday night, they (+Steve Martin, of course) quickly followed this song with “Atheists don’t have no songs” . ‘Cause of course they did !
(Source: trish-runs-the-world-away)
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Goodbye, Earl…
Foggy Mountain breakdown - Earl Scruggs & friends (video) (by charliejazz)
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Steve Martin - Ramblin’ Man
On the banjo in 1977.
Steve M. is not exactly a newcomer to the bluegrass thang
(Source: countryandwestern)
