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
My guest this week is Jack Hinshelwood.
Jack is a guitarist, fiddler, singer and winner of the Knoxville World’s Fair Guitar Championship, the Wayne Henderson Guitar Championship, and a two-time winne…
My guest this week is Nick Lloyd of Nick Lloyd basses.
I recently interviewed Paul Kowert of Hawktail and Punch Brothers (see episode 228 if you missed that). Shortly after, I got an email from Nick …
This episode features a short interview with Paul Kowert of Hawktail and Punch Brothers talking about his Nick Lloyd double bass.
I interviewed Nick about making the bass (episode 245) and thought it …
Hi everyone. We're back with another two tempo jam. This week it's Whiskey Before Breakfast, again at 75 and 85, and we're in the key of D.
We're using the jam along format - that means I'm kicking of…
Steve Nall (Nully), Collings' Head of Production, returns to the podcast to chat about tonewoods. When Nully was originally on the podcast in July we touched on this and I thought it would make for a…
Hi everyone.
I've got another quick Food for Thought episode for you, inspired by my recent interview with Tim Stafford. Tim told me nobody could tune a guitar like Tony Rice and that he thought that …
My guest this week is Harry Clark, a recipient of the 2022 IBMA Momentum Instrumentalist of the Year award.
Harry plays mandolin with East Nash Grass as well as in Dan Tyminski's band, both of which h…
A couple of weeks ago I released an episode where we played Wildwood Flower back to back at two different speeds - once at 75 bpm then again at 85. It proved so popular I've decided to do the same w…
I interviewed Tim Stafford for the podcast this week, which was an absolute treat. We talked about all sorts, from Blue Highway to Tony Rice, Billy Strings and Tim's songwriting.
Tim also talked about…
My guest this week is Tim Stafford.
Tim is a multi award winning guitarist, songwriter, singer, producer and author.
We covered a lot of ground, including the recent Blue Highway Fest, Tim's songwritin…
This week we've got a bonus episode!
As we've been playing Wildwood Flower for the past two weeks, I thought it would be fun to have a run through at 75 bpm, then, when we're warmed up, go through it…
This week we're jamming along to Wildwood Flower 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 keep swa…
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune Wildwood Flower. 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 …
This week we're jamming along to Wildwood Flower 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 f…
This week we're jamming along to Wildwood Flower 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…
This week we're jamming along to Wildwood Flower 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…
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune Wildwood Flower. 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 …
This week we're jamming along to Wildwood Flower 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 keep swa…
This week we're jamming along to Wildwood Flower 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 f…