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Blues Music: Reflecting the Atrocities

Blues music has its inclination to African-American community of the USA. It is a kind of vocal or instrumental music which is generally based on blues notes. The concept aroused from the spirituality, chants, work songs and ballads. The African influence is greatly felled in the notes and call-and-response patterns of music and lyrics. The American and Western music is more inclined to this music genre. It became the foundation stone for the different music forms namely jazz, rhythm and blues, heavy metal, bluegrass and hip-hop. The blues mainly reflect the mood of the singer i.e. depression, down hearted feeling or sadness. The Blues word was used for the first time in George Colman’s farce’s ‘Blue Devils’. It was in the 1912 that Hart Wand’s ‘Dallas Blues’ came and it was the first Blues Music to describe the depressing mood. There is common distinctiveness in the music genre. Showing the individual peculiar habits, the music elements were earlier call-and-response shouts. They were just individual’s performance with no harmony or formal music structure. These pre-blues were simply a solo song with emotional touch. They were often heard in shouts and hollers.

The present day music form has harmonic base and call-and-response format of African and European communities which gave new structure to the Blues. The voice and guitar were incorporated in the songs. The elements reflected the songs of Africa. The most common instruments, Diddley bow and Banjo were used in the early music. The Diddley bow belonged to South America whereas the Banjo was mostly used in Africa to increase the instrumental vocabulary. With each passing days it adopted Ethiopian airs, Negro spirituality and minstrel shows together with instruments and rhythmic supplements. The blues are rewarded for preserving the melodic patterns of African music. The Songs From this genre have distinct musical structure. The songs recorded by Lead Belly’s and Henry Thomas reflected twelve- and sixteen-bar structure with tonic, sub-dominant and dominant chords. The modern form has 12-bar structure with influence of Sheet Music.

The lyrics of the blues were based on repetition. Each line was repeated four times. Currently, the lines are repeated once with a standard single line conclusion. They are sung in the form of rhythmic talk than a melody. The Blues music has given great artists like Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker and Bessie Smith. The credit can be given to the hollers and calls without which this genre would not have evolved. It is based on the changing lives of the post slavery era of African-Americans. The music is quite popular amongst blacks and generally reflects on the atrocities faced by the community.

More popularly considered as secular songs, the Blues lyrics highlighted singer’s inner shelf. Thus it was not an innovative approach but simply a presentation of oneself. It describes the condition of African Americans communities. It has descriptions related to slaves’ freedom, Booker T. Washington’s teachings, and the famous Horatio Alger model, who once said that man is the creator of his/her destiny. Lawrence Levine stresses on the fact that national ideologies affect the individual’s behaviour and the blues music reflect this relationship. Blacks were badly treated during the slavery era and were socially and economically exploited. The secular songs reflect this psychological oppression.

The music was earlier treated as folk blues and was sung during leisurely periods. These songs were mostly sung in shows and carnivals. Due to close contact with country singers, the blacks learned to sing professional Blues which are often called classic blues. In the 20th century, African Americans migrated and played the songs in Texas, Chicago, Louisiana, New York, Arkansas and Detroit. Later the classic blues singers introduced this genre to clubs, vaudeville halls, and theaters with the help of New Orleans and Fast Western musicians. It was in 1895 when George W. Johnson recorded the first blues song called “Laughing Song”. The genre gained popularity in 1920 with Mamie Smith’s evergreen songs namely “Crazy Blues” and “It’s Right Here for You”. Online music shop have varied array of latest blues music for the fans.

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Banjo For Dummies $13.63 A complete guide to the world of the five-string banjo written for both beginners and more experienced players.Packed with over 120 how-to photos and 130 musical examples.94 track CD included – hear and play along with every exercise and song.The only book to offer instruction in clawhammer, bluegrass, melodic, single-string, minstrel and classic styles.From Earl Scruggs’ driving bluegrass pi…

Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo: Revised and Enhanced Edition – Book with CD $19.50 The best-selling banjo method in the world! Earl Scruggs’s legendary method has helped thousands of banjo players get their start. The “Revised and Enhanced Edition” features more songs, updated lessons, and many other improvements. It includes everything you need to know to start playing banjo, including: a history of the 5-string banjo, getting acquainted with the banjo, Scruggs tuners, how to r…

Bluegrass Banjo – Don Reno Style $29.95 The banjo style created by the legendary Don Reno melds traditional bluegrass breakdowns with chord-based solos, percussive techniques and flamboyant single-string runs. Don Wayne Reno passes on his dad’s groundbreaking techniques and great advice as he analyzes eight classic Reno tunes. Intermediate level. 60 minutes.

Bluegrass Banjo Backup – Basic Level $29.95 Here’s the ultimate beginners’ “how-to” course for playing back-up in a band, from the simplest basic strum to the chord vamping, rolls, up-the-neck positions and fill-in licks that banjo players use to spark the bluegrass sound. Extra! Includes actual jamming footage to illustrate Pete’s expert instruction. INCLUDES TAB • LEVEL 2 • 120 MIN.

Branching Out On Bluegrass Banjo $49.95 Lesson One: Hundreds of building blocks to create licks, back-ups and solos. Learn dozens of left-hand chord groups, versatile right-hand rolls, classic up-the-neck licks and other techniques. 110-MIN DVD • INCLUDES TAB • EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVELLesson Two: The “big tree of licks,” chord progressions, ascending and descending runs, back-ups, modulations from one key to another, improvising ideas, favorite Scruggs and Reno-style runs and licks and lots more! 90-MIN DVD • INCLUDES TAB • INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos – DVD $0 Tony Trischka teaches eleven classic pieces, prime examples of banjo playing at its best. You’ll learn them, note-for-note, just as they were played by some of the greatest players in the history of the instrument. By learning these tunes you’ll not only expand your repertoire, but in the process will also become more flexible in your ability to mix up various rolls, play in several keys without a capo, and move more freely around the neck. Songs include: John Henry • Sitting on Top of the World • Gold Rush • Bye Bye Blues • Dixie Breakdown • and more.60-MIN. DVD OR VIDEO • LEVEL 3

Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos – Video $29.95 Tony Trischka teaches eleven classic pieces, prime examples of banjo playing at its best. You’ll learn them, note-for-note, just as they were played by some of the greatest players in the history of the instrument. By learning these tunes you’ll not only expand your repertoire, but in the process will also become more flexible in your ability to mix up various rolls, play in several keys without a capo, and move more freely around the neck. Songs include: John Henry • Sitting on Top of the World • Gold Rush • Bye Bye Blues • Dixie Breakdown • and more.60-MIN. DVD OR VIDEO • LEVEL 3

Clawhammer Banjo – Repertoire and Technique $49.95 This two-DVD set covers the fine art of clawhammer banjo. David Holt is considered one of the finest players and teachers of old-time clawhammer banjo. Start with the fundamentals including right & left hand technique in Lesson 1. Lesson 2 covers advanced techniques including thumb rolls. Lesson One: 60-MIN DVD • INCLUDES TAB • EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL. Lesson Two: 55-MIN DVD • INCLUDES TAB • INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

John 5 – The Devil Knows My Name – Instructional Guitar DVD $34.95 This DVD has been called the most shocking guitar instruction and performance DVD of all time! In this first-ever DVD from John 5 you will not only take a journey into his twisted mind, but you will also learn some of the techniques that have set him apart from guitar players everywhere. Included here are full live performances of four songs as well as exclusive lessons and instruction on techniques such as: banjo rolls, behind the nut bends, tapping, arpeggios, double stops, country bends, chicken pickin’, pedal steel bends, and more. This DVD is not for the faint of heart and is unlike anything you have seen before! PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT CONTENT

Learn to Play Clawhammer Banjo – 2-DVD Set $49.95 DVD One – The Basics: Grab your five-string banjo and get ready to frail! Bob covers all the basics of traditional clawhammer style: hammer-ons, pull-offs, chords, scales, tunings, right-hand essentials, slides, double-thumbing the fifth string, and more. Teaches the songs: Shortenin’ Bread • Cripple Creek • Liberty • Soldier’s Joy. 60-MIN. DVD • INCLUDES TAB • NOVICE LEVELDVD Two – Intermediate: In this comprehensive lesson, Bob Carlin explores the intricacies of old-time clawhammer banjo style for players ready to move beyond the basics. Topics include: drop-thumb, double C-tuning, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, variations, endings, and more. Includes advice on choosing a banjo, plus the songs: Arkansas Traveler • Cluck Old Hen • The Eighth of January • Sally Goodin. Each tune is broken down step-by-step. 50-MIN. DVD • INCLUDES TAB • BEGINNER LEVEL

Live and Well [DVD] $19.98 For a performer as naturally relaxed on stage as Dolly Parton, it’s rather surprising that it took so long for her to release this, her debut DVD. Recorded on Dec. 12 and 13, 2002 at Dollywood (where else?) in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee while on a short and rare tour supporting her Halos and Horns album, the entirely acoustic performance not only returns the country/bluegrass diva to her musical roots, but to her hometown ones as well. The show, also released as a double album, is far more successful with the visuals, since Parton is noticeably having a great time. Also, the patter that interrupts the flow of the audio-only version works to the advantage of the DVD as watching Dolly naturally interact with the crowd is so integral to her persona. Everything about the singer, from her makeup to her hair and curvy body is exaggerated, but with the songs conversely stripped down to their basics, the effect is impressive. Her voice is clear and strong so she doesn’t need costume changes, fancy light shows or backdrops, which would distract from her talent. Visually, the overlit stage detracts only slightly from the act, as do the incessant photo flashes popping throughout the performance. Dolly plays intermittent guitar, harmonica, pennywhistle and dulcimer, but it is her voice and vibrant yet never pretentious stage presence that makes watching her so enjoyable. The band, which is not introduced, is fabulous. They augment these songs with classy, energetic and immaculately played fiddle, stand-up bass, keyboards, drums, guitars and banjo that straddles bluegrass and old-time country. The subtle but effective 5.1 surround effect helps highlight every nuance of the music. Since the tour supports a trilogy of unplugged albums released from 1999-2002, the set list is heavy on those tracks, but enough career hits are inserted to keep everyone satisfied. Except for what seems to be a pre-recorded chorus on her cover of “Stairway to Heaven,” the set appears to be free of po…

Livin’ Right Now $19.98 Keith Urban’s DVD Livin’ Right Now chronicles his tour-closing two-night stand at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, December 14-15, 2004. It’s a good time for a live video from Urban, who topped the country charts and went platinum with Be Here, the album the tour was promoting, after several years of increasing success. At this point, he was able to perform a 100-minute set peppered with major country hits (“Days Go By,” “Raining on Sunday,” “You’re My Better Half,” “Where the Blacktop Ends,” “But for the Grace of God,” “You’ll Think of Me,” “Somebody Like You,” “Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me”). But the chief musical appeal remained his accomplished lead guitar work. Urban, an expatriate New Zealander, is anything but a Nashville purist; in fact, his music is only nominally definable as country, due to the frequent inclusion of a Dobro, banjo, or mandolin in his arrangements and the slight country twang in his singing voice, acquired from years of listening to country music as a child. Otherwise, this is really pop/rock, occasionally working up a sweat, but mostly in an agreeable adult contemporary vein. At the Wiltern, Urban turns up in old jeans and a T-shirt, his shoulder-length hair parted in the middle and falling in sheets over his narrow face, which is decorated with fashionable stubble; he’s a country Bryan Adams. The enthusiastic audience consists almost entirely of women, which is no surprise when you listen to the lyrics to his songs. Over and over, he pledges undying love and devotion, declaring, “You Won” and celebrating “Making Memories of Us.” When love doesn’t work out, he is heartbroken, confessing, “Tonight I Wanna Cry.” The concert begins with a series of rock-oriented songs, gives way to a mini-set of acoustic numbers, and then revs back into an energetic finish that includes a cover of Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’,” an appropriate inclusion with its many L.A. references. Urban is really more of a traditionalist than any sor…

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Mel Bay Complete Flatpicking Guitar Book $21.68 This comprehensive study of contemporary flatpicking guitar technique presents numerous solos for the beginning through advanced flatpicking guitarist along with tips on creating your own flatpicking arrangements. The book addresses the tablature system, tuning, right and left-hand technique, use of the capo and the microphone, transposing using the Nashville numbering system, bluegrass back-up, a…

20 Gospel Tunes That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know $69.95 This detailed course in beginning, intermediate and advanced flatpicking techniques teaches a dazzling set of gospel standards that are great for playing at bluegrass jam sessions or family gatherings. Includes rhythm backups for productive and exciting practice sessions.6 CDs • INCLUDES 105-PAGE BOOK WITH MUSIC + TAB. All Levels.

20 Swing Tunes That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know $69.95 This series of CDs teaches essential swing guitar repertoire to bluegrass flatpickers. Steve’s unique method features three levels: a beginner’s version in which he teaches the basic melody; an intermediate arrangement that will give players a solid musical grounding; and finally, a full-blown solo that will challenge any aspiring swing guitarist. Backup tracks make for productive and exciting practice sessions. Tunes: After You’ve Gone • Back Home Again in Indiana • Blue Moon • Danny Boy • Georgia on My Mind • Honeysuckle Rose • I Got Rhythm • Kansas City Kitty • Lady Be Good • Limehouse Blues • Little Rock Getaway • Minor Swing • Miss Molly • Panhandle Rag • It’s Only a Paper Moon • Remington’s Ride • Over the Rainbow • Sugar Foot Rag • Summertime • The Sunny Side of the Street.160-PAGE BOOK WITH 6 CDs • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • LEVEL ALL

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Bluegrass Mandolin Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know $69.95 Steve Kaufman’s amazing teaching method for mandolinists is now available on CD! His “Parking Lot Pickers” series, which has proved so popular with guitarists through the years, covers levels from beginners to advanced in a four-tiered system: (1.) Beginners will learn to pick the melody to become familiar with the tune in its most basic form. (2.) Intermediate players will develop facility with a series of great licks and runs that can be used in these or other tunes. (3.) More experienced pickers move on to advanced techniques, including full-blown solos for each tune. (4.) Each tune gets a final run-through, complete with hot endings. Mandolinists and fiddlers (the violin is tuned to the same pitches as a mandolin) can master these 20 must-play tunes from the standard bluegrass repertoire: Arkansas Traveler • Big Sandy River • Bill Cheatham • Billy in the Low Ground • Blackberry Blossom • Under the Double Eagle • Flop-Eared Mule • Fisher’s Hornpipe • Forked Deer • Gold Rush • Old Joe Clark • Salt Creek • Soldier’s Joy • St. Anne’s Reel • Nothin’ to It • Ragtime Annie • Red-Haired Boy • Sweet Georgia Brown • Turkey in the Straw • Whiskey Before Breakfast.SIX CDs • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB • LEVEL ALL

Bluegrass Mandolin Solos That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know 2 $69.95 Steve Kaufman continues his remarkably successful “Parking Lot Pickers” series with 20 more great traditional tunes for mandolin, taught for beginners, intermediates and advanced players. Back-up rhythm tracks are included as well. Includes an 86-page booklet and 6 CDs.

Easy Flatpicking Guitar Arrangements – A Song for Every Holiday $29.95 Steve Kaufman has chosen 11 well-known and much-loved songs, each one associated with an important season or holiday. As one of America’s most experienced teachers, Steve adds the techniques and advice novice flatpickers will need to pick these as instrumentals. Songs include: Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Valentine’s Day) • When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (St. Patrick’s Day) • America the Beautiful (Memorial Day) • Battle Hymn of the Republic (Fourth of July) • We Gather Together (Thanksgiving) • Dayenu • Who Can Retell? (Hannukah) • Winter Wonderland • Jingle Bells • We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Christmas season) • Auld Lang Syne (New Year’s Eve). 80 minutes.

Learn to Play Waltzes $29.95 Learn To Play Waltzes Flatpicking Style taught by Steve Kaufman is a 70 minute Homespun video. He teaches his arrangements to some of the most beautiful instrumentals in the guitar repertory. Steve teaches five pieces in great detail, showing how to play them flatpick style.

Learning to Flatpick $99.95 Complete three-tape series which includes the videos titled: ‘From The Biginning,’ ‘Building Bluegrass Technique,’ and ‘Developing Speed and Style.’

Learning to Flatpick – DVD 2: Building Bluegrass Technique $29.95 Steve covers use of the capo, how to play up and down the neck, chord back-ups, bass runs, damping, slides, substitution chords and crosspicking. Build a flatpicking solo to tunes like: Old Joe Clark • Bury Me Beneath the Willow • The Wildwood Flower • Wabash Cannonball • Arkansas Traveler • Salty Dog • and Down Yonder. Includes music and tab. 90 minutes.

Learning to Flatpick – DVD One: From the Beginning $29.95 Steve Kaufman’s “101-level” beginner’s course details all the essential bluegrass flatpicking techniques for getting new players off to a great start. Steve covers both lead and chord playing, and explains how to get good clarity in picking and fretting. Songs: Cripple Creek • Hand Me Down My Walking Cane • The Wildwood Flower • The Wayfaring Stranger • Eighth of January • Bully of the Town. Includes music and tab. 65 minutes.

Bluegrass Music Tabs for Those Who Want to Play Themselves

Particularly American bluegrass music has had for quite a while now its settled artists and their eager admirers. Bluegrass music seems to be a good companion at any moment because it sings the soul of regular people confronting with regular problems Anyone Can relate to. For those who hold a special place for that old-time melancholy atmosphere, there is no obstacle between them and their love for bluegrass music. However, bluegrass music is not as old as you may think. It indeed combines old rhythms with Scottish-Irish influences, but it dates back somewhere in the 1930s, when Bill Monroe turned it into a popular means of entertainment.

Nonetheless, bluegrass music goes beyond being equal to just another tool for diversified entertainment. Those who fall in love with bluegrass music often get so caught in the mix of melancholic tunes rendered by a varied assembly of stringed instruments that they want to learn to play these instruments, or at least one of them, so as to be able to perform themselves the bluegrass music of their liking. And they surely do not lack bluegrass tabs to help them out. Bluegrass tabs or bluegrass music tablature will basically attempt to render noted guidelines for the instrument of your interest.

There are genuine ‘followers’ of bluegrass music who cannot imagine authentic, original, unspoiled bluegrass music without some unique banjo rhythms completing the group of mandolin, guitar, bass, and fiddle. Well, there is no need to worry: bluegrass tabs for banjo are very popular. Bluegrass tabs will show you how to play your banjo (or guitar) so as to enjoy the flow of bluegrass music better adjusted to your voice. Bluegrass tabs are to be understood as mere maps on which strings, frets and proper finger placement is indicated. However, these bluegrass tabs are not the single tools for appropriate bluegrass music performing. In other words, even if bluegrass tabs are extremely useful in pointing out the fingering to be employed in playing as accurately as possible a certain bluegrass music piece, additional skills are necessary.

This does not mean that bluegrass music is ‘playable’ just by a privileged group. On the contrary, bluegrass tabs are available precisely in order to turn bluegrass music approachable for any other man (or woman, for that matter) with enough taste for good music so as to want to play it. The supplementary skill lies in learning to tune your instrument to be able to follow the indications provided by bluegrass tabs and to bring the instrument to actually fit your voice. An instrument out of tune has most likely some quarrel with its vibrating parts which, in the case of stringed instruments, are obviously the strings. The key to a pleasant sounding and an advantageous handling of bluegrass tabs indications lies, therefore, in tuning your stringed instruments accurately.

Bluegrass tabs are available for a wide range of songs. There are bluegrass tabs arranged for Irish tunes played with a banjo, such as Fire on the Mountain, Wildwood Flower, or Old as the Hills, there are bluegrass tabs for fiddle tunes, such as Billy in the Lowground or Gold Rush and the list of bluegrass tabs goes on, since their creators actually have the possibility to adapt numerous songs to fit the pattern of bluegrass music.

Moreover, if you want to acquire your own bluegrass tabs generator, this is possible since there are on the market programs specifically designed for bluegrass tabs writing. Such tablature writing software is generally quite easy to use and install. With the assistance of such a program, you will be able even to listen to the tablature created, edited and, in some cases, printed – everything just to make your technique better.

Although it might be tempting to use such bluegrass tabs generator software, it is recommended to be original on your own and let yourself be inspired (without copying) by the bluegrass music players who are famous for their talents. Bluegrass music is the voice of the soul that wants to let itself be heard. So let yourself feel and start singing bluegrass music. If you don’t succeed, don’t despair because you’ll always have bluegrass music to make you feel better.

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Sleep With One Eye Open $10.71 Sleep with One Eye Open is an impassioned collaboration/conversation between mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile and guitarist Michael Daves, in which the subject is bluegrass, specifically how this upstart duo can acknowledge history and tradition while exuberantly defying convention. Though it was recorded in four feverish days of sessions at Jack White’s Third Man studio in Nashville, the album has d…

Daybreak $9.93 Rounder Records is pleased to announce the release of 19-year old mandolin prodigy, Sierra Hull’s Daybreak. Produced by Union Station bassist Barry Bales, Daybreak is the much anticipated follow-up to her 2008 hit, Secrets, which The Associated Press described as follows: “Combine the angelic voice of Alison Krauss with the fiery mandolin picking of Rhonda Vincent and you have the sound of Sierra…

VHS-You Can Play Bluegrass Mandolin, Vol. 1 $23.52 How to hold and tune the mandolin basic chords and scales simple melodies how to work with open strings and execute double-stops plus much more. Songs: John Henry Nine-Pound Hammer Old Joe Clark Sally Goodin. 60-MINUTE VIDEO INCLUDES MUSI…

Bluegrass Mandolin [VHS] $39.00 Sam Bush slowly and carefully details the dominant mandolin styles from Bill Monroe to Newgrass. You’ll see, up close, Sam’s amazing right hand as he demonstrates crosspicking, rhythm chops and other techniques while teaching you tunes such as “Paddy On The Turnpike,” “Grey Eagle,” “Sugar Foot Rag,” “Sapporo,” “East Virginia Blues,” “Wayfaring Stranger,” “Manzanita,” “Bill Cheatham,” “Banks Of The…

Smoky Mountain Hymns $27.99 Experience the splendor of an early morning mist; the magnificence of regal mountain peaks; the rich, vibrant colors of autumn; the crisp beauty of winter; and the wondrous rebirth of spring. See black bears, cougars, and deer roaming free and unfettered as you journey through the rich and beautiful land the Cherokee Indians once called Shaconage – “Place of the Blue Smoke”. Be refreshed and inspi…

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Essential Techniques for Mandolin $19.14 Chris Thile, mandolin virtuoso for the hit band Nickel Creek, shares his own successful formula for developing right- and left-hand dexterity, improving speed and accuracy, and playing with heightened musicality. Includes numerous tunes and exercises that will make a big difference in your playing. As a bonus, you’ll hear astonishing performances of Chris’ original tunes “When Mandolins Dream” and…

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A Little Girl…A Big Four-Lane $17.98 Bill Monroe’s music has undergone a sea change since Alison Krauss first burst upon the scene in the 1980s. Krauss threw the door wide open for other female traditionalists, while adding a modern sheen to the most rustic of country music styles. Alecia Nugent, like Krauss or even Dolly Parton, combines country-flavored vocals with a contemporary bluegrass sound on her sophomore effort, A Little Girl…A Big Four-Lane. What immediately strikes one, whether listening to the upbeat opener, “Too Good to Be True,” or the quieter “God Knows What,” is Nugent’s confidence. She holds forth in a full-throated style with a slight twang that reveals a singer who knows what she wants to accomplish and just how she’s gonna do it. It doesn’t hurt one’s confidence to be backed by great players like Dobroist Rob Ickes, fiddler Jim Van Cleve, acoustic guitarist Andy Falco, and a number of other fine players. Interestingly, A Little Girl…A Big Four-Lane may be less pure than, say, a Stanley Brothers album from the 1950s, but Nugent does sound like real country, the kind like Loretta Lynn made during the 1960s. The key to the difference is that while a number of instruments — banjo, mandolin, and fiddle — are common to both country and bluegrass, bluegrass bands (even those who concoct a more contemporary sound) seldom use drums as Nugent does here (tastefully played by Tony Creasman). So A Little Girl…A Big Four-Lane is a solid follow-up for Nugent that should please both contemporary bluegrass fans and the folks who miss good old-fashioned country. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., Rovi

Act 3 $16.98 By the time the Seldom Scene had recorded its first album in 1972, Act I, the band’s essential elements were fully operational. John Starling’s rich lead vocals, John Duffy’s higher lead, and Mike Auldridge’s dobro gave the band a distinct sound, while Ben Eldridge’s banjo work, Duffy’s fancy mandolin licks, and Tom Gray’s acoustic bass reminded doubters that the band, despite its smoothness, was a bluegrass band. The Seldom Scene always chose top-notch songs, pulling equally from classic bluegrass and contemporary singer/songwriters, and the group’s harmony threw everything into high gear. By the time the Seldom Scene recorded Act 3 in 1973, the band was ready to broaden its sound, but only slightly; on several songs, the band’s lineup was augmented by fiddler Ricky Skaggs and guitarist Clayton Hambrick. These changes were unobtrusively inserted into songs like the propulsive “Rider” and “Mean Mama Blues,” and added to the Seldom Scene’s sound without effecting the overall blueprint. Act 3, like Act 1 and Act 2, is excellent all around, and features a fine, eclectic set list. The lead instrumental track, an acoustic take on “Chim Chim Cheree,” may qualify as the band’s oddest album kick-off, but this slow, melancholy version is lovely. The five-minute-twenty-second “Rider” pulls out all the stops, and some listeners even prefer it to the longer version on Live at the Cellar Door, while the emotive “Muddy Water” shows that no matter how much the Seldom Scene smoothed bluegrass’ rougher edges, the band could still evoke pathos. But listing the highlights of any early Seldom Scene album is only to list favorites: there are no weak links here. For anyone who wishes to hear the Seldom Scene at the top of its game, Act 3 is a good place to start. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., Rovi

Ain’t That America: The Bluegrass Tribute to John Cougar Mellencamp [Bonus Track] $16.98 Ain’t That America takes John Cougar Mellencamp’s blue-collar rock anthems and applies bluegrass arrangements to them, managing to work outside of a one-time curiosity listen. Songs like “Rain on the Scarecrow,” “Jack and Diane,” and “Pink Houses” translate well into this genre with the implementation of mandolin, five-string banjo, Dobro, and fiddle. [The 2007 edition includes one bonus track.] ~ Al Campbell, Rovi

All About Lead Mandolin! – Fiddle Tunes, Rags, Waltzes, Solos and Variations $29.95 A modern-day mandolin master takes a learning player through a variety of tunes, keys and styles, from classic bluegrass to contemporary originals. Sam includes plenty of advice, exercises, warm-ups and other vital information about lead soloing and improvising. Tunes: Fisher’s Hornpipe • Cloverleaf Rag • The Old North Woods • Midnight on the Stormy Deep • and Blue Mountain. LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB .PDF • 1 HR., 40 MIN.

All About Rhythm Mandolin! – Chops, Strums, Timing, Accents and Accompaniments $29.95 Sam Bush’s rhythm playing is without peer in the world of the mandolin – part bluegrass, part reggae, part rock ‘n’ roll. Here, he shows all aspects of his style: chopping, strumming, accenting, damping, subdividing beats, and more. He details his accompaniments for two of his most popular performance pieces, “Girl from the North Country” and “Sailin’ Shoes.” LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB .PDF • 1 HR., 50 MIN.

All About Rhythm and Lead Mandolin! – 2-DVD Set $49.95 Lead Mandolin DVD: A modern-day mandolin master takes a learning player through a variety of tunes, keys and styles, from classic bluegrass to contemporary originals. Sam includes plenty of advice, exercises, warm-ups and other vital information about lead soloing and improvising. Tunes: Fisher’s Hornpipe • Cloverleaf Rag • The Old North Woods • Midnight on the Stormy Deep • and Blue Mountain. LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB .PDF • 1 HR., 40 MIN.Rhythm Mandolin DVD: Sam Bush’s rhythm playing is without peer in the world of the mandolin – part bluegrass, part reggae, part rock ‘n’ roll. Here, he shows all aspects of his style: chopping, strumming, accenting, damping, subdividing beats, and more. He details his accompaniments for two of his most popular performance pieces, “Girl from the North Country” and “Sailin’ Shoes.” LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB .PDF • 1 HR., 50 MIN.

All the Pretty Horses [Original Soundtrack] $14.99 Sure, the movie was no Sling Blade, even if directed by the one and only Billy Bob Thornton. But let’s face it, they took two hours outta the thing! All the griping aside, the score, composed and performed by country music renaissance man Marty Stuart — and his collaborating band members Kristin Wilkinson and Larry Paxton — is something else completely. Comprised of 23 tracks, Stuart’s score does sound like soundtrack music, but no matter. He and his sextet have taken the drama of the film’s text and created an aural theater of the American West. At the heart of each theme is a core of mandolin, viola, bass, guitar, accordion, piano, and percussion. Orchestrations ride ambiently in the background, highlighting tension and drama. In “Edge of the World,” cornets play at the music’s outermost edge, hinting at a red Sonoran sunset. In another place, guitars, both strummed and soloed upon, create an impressionistic picture of a campfire jam session. Elsewhere, “Strawberry Tango, Part One and Two” features a full horn and string section painting the atmosphere at a cantina dance from its wild beginnings until its sultry ending. Daniel Lanois, who scored Thornton’s Sling Blade (well, it actually sounds as if he threw a bunch of leftover studio bits on a tape for the movie), makes a return appearance here with an actual song. The track “Porque” features the stirring vocals of Raul Malo of the Mavericks, who contributed the lyrics to the selection. It’s a sad, romantic ballad. Lost love drips from the cowboy’s hat, regret drapes itself in tears in his shaded eyes, and he stands out in the rain singing to no one. Also, homage is paid to Stuart’s greatest influence and benefactor, the daddy of bluegrass music himself, Bill Monroe. His “My Last Days on Earth” is included here. (Everybody knows nobody was listening to bluegrass music in Texas or Mexico in the late ’30s.) The only real complaint about this gorgeous score is its brevity. Clocking in at under 50 minute…

Amen Corner $16.98 Railroad Earth made its name on the jam band circuit with their hard to classify amalgamation of bluegrass, folk, Celtic, country, jazz, and rock, although the band itself says they’re acoustic rockers. There’s no denying that they rock hard, but on Amen Corner they sound most like a country band with a bluegrass accent. Todd Sheaffer the band’s lead singer and main songwriter has a pleasant country/folk/singer/songwriter voice and a knack for crafting subtle melodies that give the rest of the band — Tim Carbone, fiddle, John Skehan, mandolin, Andy Goessling, guitar, banjo, dobro, mandolin, flute, penny whistle, and sax, Carey Harmon, drums and percussion, and standup bass man Johnny Grubb — plenty of room to stretch out. Skehan’s mandolin and Carbone’s fiddle play a beautiful harmonic hook to open “The Forecast,” a tune that talks about a coming storm but Skehan’s mandolin sprinkles that track with flurries of shimmering, sunshiney notes. “All Alone” sounds a bit like the Band with a slow, mournful backbeat, lonesome banjo, and Sheaffer’s keening vocal. It sounds like a prayer offered by a man with no hope of being answered by friend, lover or god. Goessling’s dobro adds slow wailing notes to complement the music’s bluesy, hopeless vibe. “You Never Know” sounds like the last song of the night at a dusty honky tonk full of lonely men. It has a sad singalong chorus and the playing remains understated until Carbone’s fiddle and Sheaffer’s wordless yodel drive it home with a jaunty, if desperate coda. “Been Down This Road Before” has a nice bouncy bluegrass feel to counter its melancholy melody with a lyric of lost love staggering through the drunken shadows of the early morning hours. “Right in Tune” is an ode to true love that doesn’t ignore the bumps in the highway, but celebrates the feeling you get when the sun is bright and everything’s in tune. Goessling’s dobro and Carbone’s fiddle lift your spirits with their breezy instrumental flights. The alb…

Best of the Sugar Hill Years $17.98 Formed in 1984, the Nashville Bluegrass Band filled a slot somewhere between the new and the old, similar, in a number of ways, to Hot Rize. With smooth harmony and a folk sound, NBB blunts many of bluegrass’ sharper, more rustic edges; at the same time, one would never confuse NBB with the ’70s incarnation of the New Grass Revival or even the eclectically conservative Seldom Scene. While elements of the Nashville Bluegrass Band have changed over the years, all of the 16 selections on Best of the Sugar Hill Years feature vocalist/guitarist Pat Enright, banjoist/vocalist Alan O’Bryant, and fiddler Stuart Duncan. The mandolin spot, over the years, has changed between Mike Compton and Roland White, while the bass players featured on this collection include Gene Libbea and Dennis Crouch. For anyone familiar with the roots music field, this is an impressive roster, and one that works very well as a unit (thus, the emphasis on the “band” in Nashville Bluegrass Band). There’s a lot of good stuff here, including the propulsive “Blue Train” and a fine take on Gillian Welch’s “Tear My Stillhouse Down.” Best of the Sugar Hill Years is a solid introduction to a fine contemporary bluegrass band. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., Rovi

Bluegrass $16.98 Jim Lauderdale is both eclectic and prolific, working steadfastly within the Americana/ roots field, recording and releasing a slew of projects with everyone from bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley to jam band Donna the Buffalo. In his latest incarnation, he has simultaneously released two projects, one, Country Super Hits, Vol. 1, delving into classic honky tonk, the other, Bluegrass, delving deeply into country music’s most rustic subgenre. One might guess that with a title like Bluegrass Lauderdale intends to reinterpret the classics from yesteryear, but that isn’t the case. Instead, he has written and co-written new songs within the tradition. As his former project with Stanley (I Feel Like Singing Today) suggests, Lauderdale is drawn to traditional bluegrass, though his song structures, as with “I Shouldn’t Want You So Bad,” expand beyond the genre’s conservative past. The acoustic guitar, dobro, mandolin, banjo, and fiddle arrangements, and Lauderdale’s country-flavored vocals, reinforce the rootsy sound. The solid harmony (nicely done on “Who’s Leaving Who”) is icing on this old-fashioned cake. The downside to the collection is that there is already a great deal of bluegrass on the market, and while it’s always fun to hear an outsider’s take on the genre, it’s hard for Lauderdale to match the vocals of a singer like Karl Shiftlett or put together a band as hot as Del McCoury’s. In other words, as good as these songs sound, they add very little to the tradition. But alternative country fans will appreciate Lauderdale’s refresher course on Bluegrass, nonetheless, and more than likely want to pick up the Country Super Hits, Vol. 1 collection too. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., Rovi