Bluegrass Jam Along
The IBMA Award winning podcast for anyone and everyone who loves bluegrass.
Free fiddle tune backing tracks and interviews with amazing people from the world of bluegrass.
For every tune we give you four brand new tracks:
- Backup 4 times through (you play the tune or improvise breaks)
- Tune 4 times through (you play backup)
- ‘Jam Along’ (4 complete run throughs, alternating backup and tune)
- Full performance
For more info and chord charts, visit https://bluegrassjamalong.com. Hope you find these tracks useful (and thanks for listening!) - Matt
Episodes
453 episodes
Bitesize - Bluegrass Jam Along guests on the Mandolins and Beer podcast
This week's episode is a Bitesize episode, which is a short section highlighting a previous episode you may have missed, which feels apt, given that this is episode #450, so the back catalogue is getting pretty big!But, it's not a previo...
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Episode 450
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12:51
Bluegrass Briefing - March 3rd 2025
Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass.Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode.Pod NewsDoc Wats...
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Episode 449
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9:58
Celebrating 'JD Crowe & The New South' at 50 with Tim Stafford (Rounder 0044)
My guest this week is Tim Stafford, who joins me to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the best loved and most influential albums in bluegrass.'JD Crowe & The New South' was recorded in January 1975 and released in August the s...
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Episode 448
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58:39
Bluegrass Briefing - February 24th 2025
Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass.Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode.Pod News
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Episode 447
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10:00
Jake Workman on 9 years with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
My guest this week is guitarist Jake Workman. Jake joins me to talk about his recently ended 9 year run with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, including a great story about how he got the gig, what he learned from playing with Ricky, why rhyth...
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Episode 446
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59:14
Bluegrass Briefing - February 17th 2025
Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass.Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode.News and Announcement...
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Episode 445
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13:20
Bitesize - Jack Lawrence on the D18 Doc Watson Gave Him
This is the first of a new series of episodes on the podcast I'm calling 'Bitesize'. I've done well over 100 interviews for the podcast now. That's a lot of conversations! The idea with these episodes is to pick out a highlight from...
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Episode 444
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10:45
Bluegrass Briefing - February 10th 2025
Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass.Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode.News and Announcement...
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Episode 443
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10:09
Tom Nechville - Nechville Banjos
My guest this week is Tom Nechville from Nechville Banjos.Tom joins me to chat about 40 years of making banjos, including what he's learned along the way and some of the innovations he's brought to the banjo, including his revolutionary ...
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Episode 442
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54:42
Bluegrass Briefing - February 3rd 2025
Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass.Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode.Pod news
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Episode 441
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12:13
Celebrating 'Phillips, Grier & Flinner' with Eric Skye
My guest on the podcast this week is Eric Skye, who joins me to celebrate the album 'Phillips, Grier & Flinner'.Released in 1999 on Compass Records, it marks the first collaboration between bassist Todd Phillips, guitarist David Grie...
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Episode 440
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1:00:10
Bluegrass Briefing - January 27th 2025
Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass.Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode.Pod news<...
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Episode 439
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8:16
Daniel Kimbro - Story Songs, Murder Ballads and a New Solo Record
My guest this week is Daniel Kimbro. Daniel is the bass player in Jerry Douglas's band and plays with Jerry in Transatlantic Sessions and The Earls of Leicester. He's also part of the trio Harley Kimbro Lewis and joins me this week to chat abou...
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Episode 438
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54:44
Bluegrass Briefing - January 20th 2025
Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass.Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode.News and Announcement...
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Episode 437
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10:29
Bluegrass Briefing - January 13th 2025
Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass.Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episodeNews and Announcements (Church Street Ne...
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Episode 436
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13:33
Dan Gutstein - 'Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane'
My guest this week is author Dan Gutstein, who joins me to chat about his book 'Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane'.The book traces the history of one of America's most recorded folk songs, from its origins amongst ensla...
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Episode 435
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54:02
Bluegrass Briefing - December 9th 2024
Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass.Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode.News and Announcements (Church S...
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Episode 434
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15:06
Darol Anger - Mr Sun Plays Duke Ellington's Nutcracker
My guest this week is Darol Anger, one of the leading lights of progressive string band music over the last 50 years.Through his work with the David Grisman Quintet, the Turtle Island String Quartet, bands like Psychograss and New Grang...
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Episode 433
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58:46
Charlotte Carrivick - Sensible or Otherwise
My guest this week is Charlotte Carrivick.Charlotte is one of my favourite guitarists, so I'm delighted she's back on the podcast to talk about her new record Sensible or Otherwise.We chat about why, despite having...
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Episode 432
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39:51
Olli Chanoff - FreshGrass Foundation
My guests this week is Olli Chanoff, Director of Programming at the FreshGrass Foundation.So much music I love has its roots in FreshGrass Commissions, from albums like Becky Buller's Jubilee, Sarah Jarosz's Blue Heron...
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Episode 431
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45:58
Bluegrass Briefing - November 18th 2024
Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass.Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode.News and Announcements (Church S...
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Episode 430
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10:31
Sarah Jarosz - Blue Heron Suite Reissue Special
My guest this week is Sarah Jarosz.Sarah joins me to talk about one of my favourite albums, 'Blue Heron Suite', which is getting a physical reissue on November 22nd. We chat about how the record developed out of a FreshGrass com...
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Episode 429
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43:51
Bluegrass Briefing - November 11th 2024 (Grammy Nominations Special)
Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass.This week we have a special episode looking at the artists from the bluegrass and string band world who've ...
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Episode 428
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10:40