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morristownmando
Aug-01-2008, 11:08pm
Just wanted to stir some opinions of cafemembers top 5 favorite bluegrass bands new and old.Mine would be NO.1 Bill monroe and his bluegrass boys 2.The stanley bros. 3.Del Mccoury band 4.Country gentlemen 5.Jimmy martin and his sunny mountain boys HONARABLE MENTION:The Johnson Mtn Boys
Austin Koerner
Aug-01-2008, 11:29pm
1. Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys
2. Stanley Brothers
3. Johnson Mountain Boys
4. Al Batten and The Bluegrass Reunion (the only one still around)
5.Jimmy Martin and The Sunny Mountain Boys
When it comes to bluegrass, it either has to be traditional, or not. The stuff in between sounds good, but I just really like traditional BG.
morristownmando
Aug-01-2008, 11:29pm
Honarable mention The johnson mountain boys
morristownmando
Aug-01-2008, 11:31pm
1. Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys
2. Stanley Brothers
3. Johnson Mountain Boys
4. Al Batten and The Bluegrass Reunion (the only one still around)
5.Jimmy Martin and The Sunny Mountain Boys
When it comes to bluegrass, it either has to be traditional, or not. The stuff in between sounds good, but I just really like traditional BG.
Wow my fav's and yours are so close it's scary i debated on jmb's but i will put them as my Honarable mention.
J.Albert
Aug-01-2008, 11:36pm
RE:
<< Honarable mention The johnson mountain boys >>
I wish Dudley would consider asking the band to get together and do a series of "reunion" shows, perhaps another recording....
- John
morristownmando
Aug-01-2008, 11:47pm
RE:
<< Honarable mention The johnson mountain boys >>
I wish Dudley would consider asking the band to get together and do a series of "reunion" shows, perhaps another recording....
- John
I would love too see them live
morristownmando
Aug-02-2008, 12:53am
The master
1. #Seldom Scene (original configuration)
2. #Country Gentlement (70s with Doyle Lawson and Bill Yates)
3. #IIIrd Tyme Out (late 90s configuration)
4. #Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver (I've never heard a configuration of this band that I didn't like)
5. #Blue Highway
Brandon Flynn
Aug-02-2008, 6:17am
1. Hot Rize
2. Infamous Stringdusters
3. Flatt & Scruggs
4. New Grass Revival (mostly bluegrass)
5. yet to be determined
oldtimestrings
Aug-02-2008, 7:04am
1. The Stanley Brothers
2. Bill Monroe & his BG Boys
3. The Kentucky Colonels
4. Jimmy Martin & his Sunny Mountain Boys
5. Reno & Smiley
Honorable mentions: Flatt & Scruggs, Dry Branch Fire Squad, J.D. Crowe & the New South, The Del McCoury Band, and probably a dozen more I can't think of at the moment
Chris Travers
Aug-02-2008, 7:43am
Another honorable mention - The Dillards
Mandoe
Aug-02-2008, 8:57am
For me (order can vary):
1) Old and in the Way (and Gray)
2) Newgrass Revival
3) Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver (1st configiration)
4) Nashville BG Band (especially with Compton)
5) Alison Krauss and Union Station (especially with Steffey)
Honorable Mention: Monroe, Hot Rize, McCoury, Scene, Gentlemen, JD Crowe with Rice/Skaggs, BG Album Band, Boone Creek, Blue Highway
1.The Stanley Brothers (Mercury)
2.The Stanley Brothers (King)
3.The Stanley Brothers (Columbia)
4.The Stanley Brothers (Rich-R-Tone)
5.The Osborne Brothers
red7flag
Aug-02-2008, 9:03am
1. J.D. Crowe and the New South w/ Tony Rice, et al especially, but always good.
2. Early Allison Krause before the sappy current material. Like when Dan Timinski sings now.
3. Seldom Scene
4. Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys
5. Nashville Bluegrass Band
Could have been 20 easily and is in no particular order
Tony
Andy Nichols
Aug-02-2008, 10:22am
Not in no certain order .Here are 5 of my favorites.
Hot Rize
Lester Flatt and Nashville Grass with Marty and Kenny Ingram
Larry Sparks
Seldom Scene-John Duffy
Marshall Family - 1970's
cgwilsonjr
Aug-02-2008, 10:38am
1. TR and the BG Album band
2. Monroe
3. Flatt & Scruggs
4. Hot Rize
5. Larry Keel
EggerRidgeBoy
Aug-02-2008, 9:14pm
RE:
<< Honarable mention The johnson mountain boys >>
I wish Dudley would consider asking the band to get together and do a series of "reunion" shows, perhaps another recording....
- John
Someone asked him about that at this year's Joe Val Festival (actually I'm sure he gets asked about it quite often) and he replied that he just had no interest at all in doing a JMB reunion show/tour/recording. Not that he doesn't enjoy playing with those guys (Seneca Rocks - a band he formed and was part of from about 2003 to 2007 - was basically 4/5 of the late 80's JMBs plus Sally Love), but more that he feels he has done that hard driving, traditional bluegrass music - done it about as well as it can be done - and doesn't want to try to revisit it after all these years. So I doubt I'll ever see a JMB reunion, as much as I would love to.
barry k
Aug-02-2008, 9:35pm
1) Bluegrass Cardinals
2) Johnson Mountain Boys
3) Virginia Squires
4) Lonesome River Band (with Rigsby and Kenny Smith)
5) Seldom Scene (with Duffy)
...about 50 others come to mind for top ten past and
present
re simmers
Aug-02-2008, 9:43pm
1. Newgrass Revival (Cow, Pat, Sam, Fleck)
2. Bill & The Bluegrass Boys (Earl, Lester, Chubby, Cedric, and...........Bill)
3. Bluegrass Album Band
4. Seldom Scene (the original w/Starling)
5. Country Gentlemen (Waller, Emerson, Lawson, Yates)
6. Seldom Scene (the current line-up)
7. J.D. Crowe & The New South (Rice, Skaggs, & Co.)
8. Doyle Lawson (Scott, Daley, Baucom, Stockman, Doyle)
How many did you say???
re simmers
Aug-02-2008, 9:50pm
Also, Nashville Bluegrass Band, AKUS(w/Block on banjo, Steffey, and no drums), Country Gentlemen (Waller, Duffey, Adcock, Gray), Bluegrass Alliance(w/Rice and Bush).
AKUS, Blue Highway, IStringDusters, Hot Rize. Del McCoury
Chris Biorkman
Aug-02-2008, 10:01pm
AKUS, Blue Highway, IStringDusters, Hot Rize. Del McCoury
I think that's my top five too.
Ivan Kelsall
Aug-03-2008, 3:35am
1) The Johnson Mt.Boys.
2) Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys (original band inc. Flatt & Scruggs)
3) Every 'other' Bill Monroe band.
4) The Del McCoury Band.
5) Hot Rize.
6) Kane's River.
I was hard-put to pick out only 6,there are so many good bands these days of all styles,
Saska
oldtimestrings
Aug-03-2008, 7:29am
2) Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys (original band inc. Flatt & Scruggs)
FYI, the original BG Boys lineup did not include Flatt & Scruggs. They joined several years after Monroe split up with his brother Charlie to form his own band. Still, the one with Flatt & Scruggs is the seminal bluegrass band tha defined the sound and the style, so it is original in that sense.