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
Old Spinning Wheel (D 85 bpm) - You Play Lead
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 lead track where I play backup so you can work on the tune. …
Bluegrass Briefing - May 22nd 2023
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Wyatt Rice extended interview - Church Street Blues 40th anniversary
This interview is an extended version of the one that appeared in the first part of the Tony Rice Church Street Blues 40th anniversary celebration.
I talked to Wyatt for almost an hour and we covered …
Bluegrass Briefing - May 15th 2023
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Tony Rice - Church Street Blues 40th anniversary part 2 (Bob Minner, Jake Eddy, Justin Moses, Marcel Ardans, Scott Nygaard, Jason Keiser & tony_units)
Welcome to part 2 of the celebration to mark 40 years of Tony Rice's classic album 'Church Street Blues'.
This episode focusses on people who were inspired by Tony and his music.
The full line up for …
Bluegrass Briefing - May 8th 2023
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Tony Rice - Church Street Blues 40th anniversary part 1 (Tim Stafford, Wyatt Rice, Mike Marshall, Alison Krauss, Bryan Sutton, Chris Eldridge & Caroline Wright)
Welcome to the first of two very special episodes of Bluegrass Jam Along.
Tony Rice's classic album 'Church Street Blues' is 40 years old this year. To celebrate, I've spent the last 3 months intervie…
Bluegrass Briefing - May 1st 2023
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Rachel Baiman interview
My guest this week is singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Baiman.
We chat about Rachel's new record Common Nation of Sorrow, how she made the transition from being an instrumentalist to…
Bluegrass Briefing - April 24th 2023
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Tim O'Brien interview - Doc Watson's 100th birthday celebration
Hi everybody.
I recently released two special episodes to celebrate Doc Watson's 100th birthday. I chatted to so many amazing people for them I ended up with almost 5 hours of content!
I'm aware not ev…
T. Michael Coleman interview - Doc Watson's 100th birthday celebration
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I recently released two special episodes to celebrate Doc Watson's 100th birthday. I chatted to so many amazing people for them I ended up with almost 5 hours of content!
I'm aware not ev…
Bluegrass Briefing - April 17th 2023
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Jack Lawrence interview - Doc Watson's 100th birthday celebration
Hi everybody.
Last month I released two special episodes to celebrate Doc Watson's 100th birthday. I chatted to so many amazing people for them I ended up with almost 5 hours of content!
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Saint Anne's Reel in D 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 Saint Anne's Reel and we're in the key of D.
We're using the jam along format …
Bluegrass Briefing - April 10th 2023
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Red Haired Boy in A 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 Red Haired Boy and we're in the key of A.
We're using the jam along format - t…
Bluegrass Briefing - April 3rd 2023
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- Bluegra…
Bluegrass Briefing - March 27th 2023
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Noam Pikelny (Mighty Poplar/Punch Brothers) interview
My guest this week is Noam Pikelny.
Noam is probably best known as a member of Punch Brothers, but he joins me this week to talk about his new project, Mighty Poplar.
He’s joined in this band by fellow…