Name Suggestions for a Bluegrass Band

[Uncle Bob]

Hi all -

I'm trying to come up with a name for a bluegrass band that I'll be putting together sometime in the future. Will be looking to do about half standard bluegrass music and half bluegrass gospel, playing mostly for small churches and nursing homes in our area. I've got a few ideas so far:

Old and Grumpy
Union County Line
Copper Kettle
Three Top Mountain
New River
Faithful Servant

Any and all suggestions for a band name from the forum gang would be great!

Thanks a bunch!

[rgray]

I can't help you much but CLICK HERE for the Mandolin Cafe's Random Bad Bluegrass Band Namer.

[MikeEdgerton]

You beat me to it Bob. It doesn't get any better than that.

[HurleyRidge]

Bluegrass Angels

The News Paper Boys (spreading the gospel?)

The Holy Hillbillies

The shadow valley boys

Wayfaring Strangers

Love Offering

Supper Time

[Markus]

The F Holes

Sounds dirty but isn't. Obviously not the name for everyone

[Steve Ostrander]

Copper Kettle sounds like a restaraunt

[sachmo63]

The Turkey Basters.....

Monroid......

Slippery Slope and the downhill gang.....

[Willie Poole]

Look around your neighborhood at street names, sometimes they make good band names also....I live in an area called "Thunder Hill" and always thought hat would make a nice name...

[Mandolin Mick]

The one that's in my mind, but I claim it for the band I want to start here in Wisconsin ... Blue Cheese

[Jacob]

Yard Car

[Denny Gies]

the North Carolina Hot Air Supply. You guys will be famous.

[Scott Holt]

Uncle Bob and the Tar Heel Miscreants!

[allenhopkins]

"New River" is cool if you open each show with New River Train. I like the idea of using a local street name, geographic feature, or even place name in the band title. My first bluegrass band was the Flower City Ramblers, since Rochester's called the "Flower City" after all the nurseries that used to be located here.

[Nonprophet]

Uncle Bob and the Bobettes!

Hootin' n Hollerin'

Random Acts of Bluegrass

NP

[Ed Goist]

Uncle Bob's Cabin
No Part of Nothin'

[MikeEdgerton]

I can't claim it for my own as Mike Bromley just started a thread with the same name but I'm partial to:

Southpaw Iggy

It has a ring to it.

[Ivan Kelsall]

Why not simply name yourselves after you home state - North Carolina. There was a guy who used to pick Mandolin a while ago named his band after Kentucky the ''Bluegrass'' state,can't remember him righ now,but he was sort of ok & did quite well at it as i recall.
You could always go for - "The New Carolina Tar Heels" / "Raleigh Round" / "Apple Charlotte" / "The North State Boys" anything to denote where you come from.Other than that, "The Turkey Basters" gets my vote !,
Ivan
PS - Willie,i was born in an area named Bucklow Hill. "The Bucklow Hillbillies / Hill Boys" always sounded good to me.There's also a road close to where i live named ''Munn Road'' so ''Monroe'd'' has a nice ring. All i need is 3 more musicians !!!

[mrmando]

Holden Mayo and the Mustard Seeds
Ezekiel and the Wheels
Locusts and Wild Honey
Jimmy Divine and the Branches

[mandolirius]

"New River" is cool if you open each show with New River Train. I like the idea of using a local street name, geographic feature, or even place name in the band title. My first bluegrass band was the Flower City Ramblers, since Rochester's called the "Flower City" after all the nurseries that used to be located here.

My favourite place name band is a bunch of boys from right here in Victoria - The Clover Point Drifters. We don't treat our sewage here and Clover Point is the place where the raw material is pumped into the ocean.

[Dan Hoover]

"The Pyroclastic Flow"...

[MikeF]

My buddy and I who are only getting serious about music at 60+ have been thinking about names for our "band":

Health Care Crisis
Bursa Sac
Leadfinger
Stonefinger

[mandodan1960]

My buddy and I who are only getting serious about music at 60+ have been thinking about names for our "band":

Health Care Crisis
Bursa Sac
Leadfinger
Stonefinger

Eric Clapton was "Slowhand" you could be "Slowfinger"

My all time favorite band name is the "Bad Livers" I suppose if your going to do some gospel tunes you could be the "Half Bad Livers"

[journeybear]

Best thing to do? Ignore all us wankers! My goodness, there are some awful suggestions here! Of course, you were probably expecting that. You should have been, if you weren't.

Next best thing to do: print up all of these so far, and maybe a few more as well (what the hey, why not?), using big type, cut them up - each word separately - put them in a hat, bowl, mason jar - and pick random samplings, two or three words at a time, and see what you get. Sometimes random is best.

I once had a trio - joined a duo named "George and Liz," and somehow the name "George and Liz and some weirdo playing some weird thingy" wasn't going to fly - so we did the old list thing. George said he always wanted to name a band "Live Bait" - why, I don't know, and though we played a lot of country, and fishing is a big thing here, that was a good bit too down home for Liz and me. We must have written down forty or more names, some pretty good, some silly, some just awful - but we wrote them all down to look at them later. What did we end up with? Yup - Live Bait. Guess it wasn't such a group decision after all!

[MikeEdgerton]

Next best thing to do: print up all of these so far, and maybe a few more as well (what the hey, why not?), using big type, cut them up - each word separately - put them in a hat, bowl, mason jar - and pick random samplings, two or three words at a time, and see what you get.

Obviously you didn't click on the link in the second post.

[Markus]

My goodness, there are some awful suggestions here!

You think I'm going to give the world's greatest band name ever away for free, on a public board?

That's almost as preposterous as thinking I would come up with the worlds greatest name!