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 - February 24th 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…
Jake Workman on 9 years with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
My guest this week is guitarist Jake Workman. Jake joins me to talk about his recently ended 9 year run with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, including a great story about how he got the gig, what …
Bluegrass Briefing - February 17th 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 - Jack Lawrence on the D18 Doc Watson Gave Him
This is the first of a new series of episodes on the podcast I'm calling 'Bitesize'.
I've done well over 100 interviews for the podcast now. That's a lot of conversations! The idea with these episode…
Bluegrass Briefing - February 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.
News and Announ…
Tom Nechville - Nechville Banjos
My guest this week is Tom Nechville from Nechville Banjos.
Tom joins me to chat about 40 years of making banjos, including what he's learned along the way and some of the innovations he's brought to t…
Bluegrass Briefing - February 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
- Eric Sk…
Celebrating 'Phillips, Grier & Flinner' with Eric Skye
My guest on the podcast this week is Eric Skye, who joins me to celebrate the album 'Phillips, Grier & Flinner'.
Released in 1999 on Compass Records, it marks the first collaboration between bassist T…
Bluegrass Briefing - January 27th 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
- Daniel …
Daniel Kimbro - Story Songs, Murder Ballads and a New Solo Record
My guest this week is Daniel Kimbro. Daniel is the bass player in Jerry Douglas's band and plays with Jerry in Transatlantic Sessions and The Earls of Leicester. He's also part of the trio Harley Kim…
Bluegrass Briefing - January 20th 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 - January 13th 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 Announc…
Dan Gutstein - 'Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane'
My guest this week is author Dan Gutstein, who joins me to chat about his book 'Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane'.
The book traces the history of one of America's most recorded folk …
Bluegrass Briefing - December 9th 2024
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…
Darol Anger - Mr Sun Plays Duke Ellington's Nutcracker
My guest this week is Darol Anger, one of the leading lights of progressive string band music over the last 50 years.
Through his work with the David Grisman Quintet, the Turtle Island String Quartet,…
Charlotte Carrivick - Sensible or Otherwise
My guest this week is Charlotte Carrivick.
Charlotte is one of my favourite guitarists, so I'm delighted she's back on the podcast to talk about her new record Sensible or Otherwise.
We chat about why,…
Olli Chanoff - FreshGrass Foundation
My guests this week is Olli Chanoff, Director of Programming at the FreshGrass Foundation.
So much music I love has its roots in FreshGrass Commissions, from albums like Becky Buller's Jubilee, Sarah …
Bluegrass Briefing - November 18th 2024
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…
Sarah Jarosz - Blue Heron Suite Reissue Special
My guest this week is Sarah Jarosz.
Sarah joins me to talk about one of my favourite albums, 'Blue Heron Suite', which is getting a physical reissue on November 22nd.
We chat about how the record deve…
Bluegrass Briefing - November 11th 2024 (Grammy Nominations Special)
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.
This week we have a special episode looking at the artists from the b…