What artists/more airplay

[Jonathan Peck]

What artists/bands would you like to see get more airplay? What era in music would you like to see get more airplay?

[mandocaster]

I would like to hear Grisman, Marshall, Bush, Thile, Rice, etc. doing non-bluegrass. Jazz, Dawg, Spacegrass - whatever. I love bluegrass, but the only music I hear on the XM radio from the aformentioned guys is bluegrass. I think if more people were exposed to it, more people would like it.

[JEStanek]

In addition to the above? Old Time music, Jug band, mando using Blues and Jazz, and Choro. Maybe just a couple of whole new stations... says the guy wthout satelite radion.

Jamie

[Patrick Gunning]

First a well-known example...

Darrell Scott: He is a transcendent human being. It pains me that people making rather mediocre covers of his songs (Travis Tritt, Darryl Worley, Garth Brooks, Brad Paisley, etc.) are all over country radio, when he transcends them all as a musician, both instrumental and vocal, and gets nada. A disgrace. Kudos to the Dixie Chicks for giving "Long Time Gone" a worthy interpretation.

Now for something totally obscure...

The Deadly Gentlemen: Greg Liszt (banjo player of Crooked Still fame) put together a record called "The ####### Masterpiece" of spoken word acoustic songs (banjo rap is a misnomer, IMHO) which with Josh Pinkham on mando and Mike Barnette on fiddle gave the world its first glimpse of what happens when the styles of Chris Thile's mando style and Casey Driessen's fiddle style are brought together to serve as the base of amazingly evocative wordplay. Airplay, nothing. I'd settle for more people being aware of this project's existence. Far ahead of its time, maybe in 20 years the acoustic world will catch up.

I could go on about this topic forever, though...