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 - October 30th 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.
Releases (The G…
Big Sciota in G at 2 tempos - 75 bpm & 85 bpm
This week we're playing another tune back to back at two different speeds - once at 75 bpm then again at 85. We're doing Big Sciota and we're in the key of G.
We're using the jam along format - that …
Bluegrass Briefing - October 23rd 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.
Bluegrass Jam A…
Clarence White Tribute part 2 - featuring Russ Barenberg, Diane Bouska, Michael Daves & Tim Stafford
2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Clarence White - one of the undisputed greats of bluegrass guitar.
To mark the occasion, and to celebrate Clarence, I've been speaking to people who kne…
Bluegrass Briefing - October 16th 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.
Bluegrass Jam A…
Clarence White Tribute part 1 - featuring David Grier and Alan Munde
2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Clarence White - one of the undisputed greats of bluegrass guitar.
To mark the occasion, and to celebrate Clarence, I've been speaking to people who kne…
Bluegrass Briefing - October 9th 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.
Bluegrass Jam A…
IBMA World of Bluegrass 2023 special
This week's episode is a special IBMA World of Bluegrass 2023 round up.
I was incredibly lucky to be nominated for an IBMA Momentum Award for the podcast, so I made the trip over from the UK to Raleig…
Bluegrass Briefing - October 2nd 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.
Bluegrass Jam A…
Martin Simpson & Thomm Jutz interview
My guests this week are Martin Simpson & Thomm Jutz, who join me to talk about their wonderful new record 'Nothing But Green Willow : The Songs of Mary Sands and Jane Gentry.'
The album brings toget…
Bluegrass Briefing - September 25th 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.
Bluegrass Jam A…
James Kee (East Nash Grass) interview
My guest this week is James Kee, lead singer and guitarist with East Nash Grass.
James chats about how the members first came together via a regular Nashville gig, how that slowly began to turn into a…
Bluegrass Briefing - September 18th 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.
Bluegrass Jam A…
Peartree in G at 2 tempos - 75 bpm & 85 bpm
This week we're playing another tune back to back at two different speeds - once at 75 bpm then again at 85. We're doing Peartree and we're in the key of G.
We're using the jam along format - that me…
Bluegrass Briefing - September 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.
Bluegrass Jam A…
A quick August update
Hi everyone.
Not a full episode this week, I just wanted to let you know what's going on over the summer as I'm taking a short break.
Happy picking!
Matt
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Thanks to Bryan Sutton for hi…
Bluegrass Briefing - August 7th 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.
Bluegrass Jam A…
Caitlin Canty interview
My guest this week is singer songwriter Caitlin Canty.
Caitlin joins me to chat about her new album Quiet Flame, produced by Chris Eldridge (of Punch Brothers and Mighty Poplar) and featuring a fantas…
Bluegrass Briefing - July 17th 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.
Bluegrass Jam A…
Food for Thought - Some Days You Just Suck (and that’s OK)
This week's episodes were supposed to be a set of backing tracks for Big Sandy River. I recorded them and started editing and they just sounded a bit....well...bad!
So rather than put them out, or mak…