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
Bluegrass Jam Along
Ben Garnett - Building Worlds in Sound on his New Record 'Kite's Keep'
My guest this week is Ben Garnett, chatting about his superb new record 'Kite's Keep'.
The album features a core band of Ben, Brittany Haas and Ethan Jodziewicz, with guest appearances from Darol Anger, Paul Kowert and Chris Eldridge.
We talk about Ben's background, initially in electric guitar, and the influence his cousin Andy Timmons had on him as a mentor, before Ben started exploring acoustic guitar and how that led to him moving to Nashville, with Chris Eldridge becoming his second big mentor.
We also talk about how the album came about and Ben's world building approach to making a guitar record.
'Kite's Keep' is a fascinating record and I loved this conversation.
You can pre-order and pre-save the album on various platforms.
For more info on Ben, including upcoming tour dates, check out bengarnett.net
Matt
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Thanks to Bryan Sutton for his wonderful theme tune to Bluegrass Jam Along (and to Justin Moses for playing the fiddle!)
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