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
Jerry Douglas celebrates Earl Scruggs' 100th Birthday
January 6th 2024 would have been Earl Scruggs' 100th birthday.
I'm putting together a very special set of episodes to celebrate. As part of them I spoke to Jerry Douglas, who's organising a spectacula…
2023 Retrospective with Sierra Hull, Alison Krauss, Wyatt Rice and more
It’s almost the end of 2023. Where did the year go?!
I’m already working on some exciting stuff for 2024 but, before we head into the holidays, I wanted to have a look back at 2023 on Bluegrass Jam Al…
Bluegrass Briefing - December 11th 2023
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…
The Bristol Sessions and Beyond, with Ted Olson
My guest this week is Ted Olson.
Ted is Professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University. He's also written liner notes and essays for some wonderful projects, including “Doc Watso…
Bluegrass Briefing - December 4th 2023
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…
Mini Jam #6 - 3 tunes at 85bpm
This week we've got something I haven't done in a while - a mini jam episode. That means we're playing 3 tunes back to back instead of focussing on just one. The idea is it feels a bit more like play…
Bluegrass Briefing - November 27th 2023
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…
Big Sandy River (A 75 bpm) - You Play Lead
This week we're jamming along to Big Sandy River 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…
Big Sandy River (A 75 bpm) - Jam Along
This week we're jamming along to Big Sandy River 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…
Big Sandy River (A 75 bpm) - You Play Rhythm
This week we're jamming along to Big Sandy River 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…
Big Sandy River (A 75 bpm) - Performance
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune Big Sandy River. 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 …
Bluegrass Briefing - November 20th 2023
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…
Home Sweet Home (D 85 bpm) - Performance
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune Home Sweet Home. 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 …
Home Sweet Home (D 85 bpm) - You Play Lead
This week we're jamming along to Home Sweet Home 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…
Home Sweet Home (D 85 bpm) - Jam Along
This week we're jamming along to Home Sweet Home 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…
Home Sweet Home (D 85 bpm) - You Play Rhythm
This week we're jamming along to Home Sweet Home 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…
Bluegrass Briefing - November 13th 2023
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…
Mike Marshall & Chris Thile's Into the Cauldron 20th Anniversary Celebration - part 2
2023 is the 20th anniversary of the release of Mike Marshall and Chris Thile's album of mandolin duets 'Into the Cauldron'.
To mark the anniversary and celebrate the album, and the influence it's had …
Bluegrass Briefing - November 6th 2023
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…
Mike Marshall & Chris Thile's Into the Cauldron 20th Anniversary Celebration - part 1 with Mike Marshall
2023 is the 20th anniversary of the release of Mike Marshall and Chris Thile's album of mandolin duets 'Into the Cauldron'.
To mark the anniversary and celebrate the album, and the influence it's had …