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
Celebrating 50 years of the David Grisman Quintet - part 1 Darol Anger & Mike Marshall
2025 marks 50 years since The David Grisman Quintet first got together, an event that changed string band music forever.
The DGQ played a huge part in the careers of some incredible musicians, includ…
Bluegrass Briefing June 2nd 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 Announ…
Celebrating Norman Blake's 'Whiskey Before Breakfast' with Bob Minner
My guest this week is Bob Minner and we're celebrating one of the most iconic flatpicking records of all time - Norman Blake's 'Whiskey Before Breakfast'.
We chat about Bob first hearing this record a…
Bluegrass Briefing May 26th 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 Announ…
Wayne Erbsen on 50 Years of Writing About Southern Mountain Music
My guest this week is Wayne Erbsen, professor of old-time and bluegrass music at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Wayne joins me to talk about half a century of writing about old-time an…
Bluegrass Briefing May 14th 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 Announ…
Jason Carter on his 33 Years With the Del McCoury Band
My guest on the podcast this week is six time IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year Jason Carter.
Jason recently ended his 33 year run with the Del McCoury Band and we talk about that extraordinary journey, …
Bitesize - Wyatt Rice on recording Church Street Blues with Tony Rice
This Bitesize episode features a conversation I had with Wyatt Rice for a set of episodes in 2023 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Tony Rice's 'Church Street Blues' album.
Wyatt talks about his ex…
Bluegrass Briefing - April 21st 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 Announ…
Katie Harford Hogue - Julia Belle: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 2
My guest this week is Katie Harford Hogue, who joins me to chat about the wonderful album 'Julia Belle: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 2'
We discuss how the project came about, following …
Bluegrass Briefing - April 14th 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 Announ…
Bitesize - Rachel Baiman on Connection, Conversation and Community in Music
This Bitesize episode comes from an interview I did in April 2023 with Rachel Baiman about her wonderful record Common Nation of Sorrow
I re-listened to the episode (and the album) recently and this s…
Bluegrass Briefing - April 7th 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 Announ…
Bluegrass Briefing - March 31st 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 Announ…
Sierra Hull - A Tiptoe High Wire
My guest this week is Sierra Hull.
Sierra has been a guest on the podcast twice before and both times we chatted about an ongoing project she's been working on since her last record 25 Trips. That pro…
David Grisman - Celebrating 35 Years of Acoustic Disc
My guest this week is a legend of American string band music.
When David Grisman raised his middle finger to MCA Records, after being dropped for failing to meet arbitrary sales targets, he couldn't …
Bluegrass Briefing - March 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.
Pod News
- Bluegra…
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 get…
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 News
- Doc Wat…
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…