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
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 490
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Bluegrass Briefing - July 10th 2023
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.
Bluegrass Jam A…
Tim Stafford (Guitar Melodies) interview
My guest this week is Tim Stafford of Blue Highway.
Tim joins me to chat about his new record Guitar Melodies, a wonderful album of guitar instrumentals. We talk about the tunes, the guitars he used, …
Bluegrass Briefing - July 3rd 2023
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.
Bluegrass Jam A…
Gabe Witcher (Punch Brothers) interview
My guest this week is Gabe Witcher.
Just a couple of days before we recorded this, Gabe played his last shows with Punch Brothers, the band he was a founding member of and was in for 18 years.
We chat …
Bluegrass Briefing - June 26th 2023
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.
Bluegrass Jam A…
Blackberry Blossom in G at 2 tempos - 75 bpm & 85 bpm
This week we're playing another tune back to back at two different speeds - once at 75 bpm then again at 85. We're doing Blackberry Blossom and we're in the key of G.
We're using the jam along format…
Bluegrass Briefing - June 19th 2023
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.
Bluegrass Jam A…
Tim O'Brien interview (Cup of Sugar)
My guest this week is Tim O'Brien.
Tim has a wonderful new record called 'Cup of Sugar', which I think is as good as anything he's done.
We chat about the songs and themes on this record, as well as th…
Bluegrass Briefing - June 12th 2023
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 announ…
Peartree (G 85 bpm) - You Play Lead
This week we're jamming along to Peartree and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the you play lead track where I play backup so you can work on the tune. It's four tim…
Peartree (G 85 bpm) - Performance
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune Peartree. This is a performance track, rather than a backing track. It's me playing both tune and backup so you've got a reference to listen to if y…
Peartree (G 85 bpm) - Jam Along
This week we're jamming along to Peartreeand I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the jam along track where I play backup, followed by the melody then we keep swapping. …
Peartree (G 85 bpm) - You Play Rhythm
This week we're jamming along to Peartree and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the you play rhythm track where I play the melody so you can work on backup. It's four…
Bluegrass Briefing - June 5th 2023
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.
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Natalie and Brittany Haas interview
My guests this week are Natalie and Brittany Haas, who join me to chat about their great new record Haas.
Some of you will be familiar with Brittany from Hawktail and Crooked Still, and Natalie from h…
Bluegrass Briefing - May 29th 2023
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.
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Food for Thought - What You Should Be Scared of as a Musician
Hi.
I've got a Food For Thought episode for you this week. It's been a while since we did one of these, but something that happened last weekend that made me think - so I thought I'd share it.
Have a l…
Old Spinning Wheel (D 85 bpm) - You Play Rhythm
This week we're jamming along to The Old Spinning Wheel and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the you play rhythm track where I play the melody so you can work on back…
Old Spinning Wheel (D 85 bpm) - Performance
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune The Old Spinning Wheel. This is a performance track, rather than a backing track. It's me playing both tune and backup so you've got a reference to …
Old Spinning Wheel (D 85 bpm) - Jam Along
This week we're jamming along to The Old Spinning Wheel and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the jam along track where I play backup, followed by the melody then we k…