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
Michael Johnathon - Woodsongs, Songfarmers and the Timeless Tradition of the Front Porch
My guest this week is singer-songwriter, producer, author, and playwright Michael Johnathon.
Michael is probably best known as the founder, producer and host of The Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour. He j…
Bluegrass Briefing - March 11th 2024 (inc. news from Chris Thile, North Carolina Guitar Celebration & Volume Five)
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Ethan Sherman interview
My guest this week is guitarist Ethan Sherman.
Ethan joins me to talk about his new record 'Passages', which is due out on March 8th. We chat about working with producer Wes Corbett on the project, wh…
Bluegrass Briefing - March 4th 2024
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Missy Raines - Standing Gently on the Shoulders of Tradition
My guest this week is Missy Raines.
We talk about Missy's wonderful new album 'Highlander' and her journey from being a bass player to becoming a singer/songwriter and bandleader. Along the way Missy …
Bluegrass Briefing - February 26th 2024
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George Jackson on Recording 100 Fiddle Tunes in a Day
My guest this week is fiddle player George Jackson.
George, originally from New Zealand, now living in Nashville, won the 2022 IBMA Instrumentalist Of The Year Momentum Award.
He's played with a wide …
Bluegrass Briefing - February 19th 2024
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Kyle Tuttle (Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway)
My guest this week is Kyle Tuttle.
Lots of you will know Kyle as the banjo player in Molly Tuttle's band Golden Highway, but he also has a fantastic new record called 'Labor of Lust', which he's joini…
Bluegrass Briefing - February 12th 2024
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Jim Mills on Earl Scruggs and pre-War Gibson banjos
This is the final episode in the series celebrating Earl Scruggs' 100th birthday.
My guest for this one is Jim Mills. Jim is a fantastic banjo player, who spent over a decade playing with Ricky Skagg…
Bluegrass Briefing - February 5th 2024
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Earl Scruggs 100th Birthday Tribute part 3 - Trey Hensley, Kyle Tuttle (Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway) & Willow Osborne
This is part 3 of the celebration of Earl Scruggs' 100th birthday.
In this episode we're talking about Earl's influence on the younger generation of players and also celebrating his wonderful guitar …
Bluegrass Briefing - January 29th 2024
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Earl Scruggs 100th Birthday Tribute part 2 - Jerry Douglas, Alison Brown and Tim O'Brien
This is part 2 of the celebration of Earl Scruggs' 100th birthday.
Earl's influence on bluegrass is huge, as you'll hear from my guests this week.
You'll hear from:
- Jerry Douglas, on Earl being one of …
Bluegrass Briefing - January 22nd 2024
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Earl Scruggs 100th Birthday Tribute part 1 - Tony Trischka, Kristin Scott Benson and Alan Munde
January 6th would have been Earl Scruggs' 100th birthday. To celebrate Earl and his extraordinary influence, I've been speaking to people who knew, played with and have been inspired by him.
This is p…
Bluegrass Briefing - January 15th 2024
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Josh Turknett (Brainjo) Interview - Re-post
For this week's episode I'm doing something I don't normally do - reposting an old interview. In fact, I don't think I've ever done it before.
The reason I'm doing it is that so many of us make resol…
Bluegrass Briefing - January 8th 2024
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