Not Blurgrass but an ode to Jimmy Martin

[Mike Bunting]

Tom Russel's tribute to Jimmy Martin.

[Mike Bunting]

Sorry about the typo on the thread title.

[allenhopkins]

"Blurgrass" is when you play so fast, everything is a blur...

Nice mando on that vid (oval-hole from the sound, like Jimmy's F-4), but some really bitter lyrics!

[Mike Bunting]

Tom Russell doesn't pull any punches.

[Fretbear]

An OK song, but Russell's singing-style sounds exactly like the people he is castigating in it so vitriolically.
I'll tell you what he can do with that marching-band drum kit as well....

[journeybear]

So tell us how you really feel. Yeah, pretty harsh; doubt many will be humming this. But then there's that definition of country music - three chords and the truth. This is a lot closer to that than 90% of what I have heard coming out of Nashville the last several years.

Funny thing - that same typo showed up n two threads on the same day. That makes it a movement ... I prefer to think of "blurgrass" as being more akin to what might come from the hippie/jam types. Leastways, that's what I told the folks at last night's gig, after we got done with "Friend Of The Devil" - "blurgrass" got a good round of laughter from the crowd. I think we've stumbled onto something there, accidentally on purpose possibly, after the fact.

[ralph johansson]

It wasn't hypocrisy or snobbery that kept Jimmy Martin off the Opry, it was propriety. For one thing Martin talked too much and his so-called jokes were in extremely poor taste.