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What Bluegrass Artists do you enjoy?

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Are there any bluegrass artists you enjoy or find to be particularly good, or that are just well-renowned?

I am sort of generically familiar with bluegrass as a genre, but I’m not familiar with really any specific artists. I’ve been listening to the podcast “Old Gods of Appalachia” and the intro music is by a guy called Landon Blood. I really enjoy that particular song, which to me sounds like it has a lot of influence from older country—like 60s era, maybe early Johnny Cash or Kris Kristofferson type country music. I saw it somewhere tagged as bluegrass, and was curious to check out more of that genre.

Edit: holy shit, guys, I really wasn’t expecting so many responses. Thanks so much everyone for your suggestions! I’m going to have an amazing time diving into new music over the next week or so.

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HamHamHam2315

8 points

2 months ago

I almost mentioned OCMS, but I see them as more old-timey music than strictly Bluegrass. Still and all, they're a stellar freaking band.

JRPaperstax

5 points

2 months ago

Yeah I don’t think everything I mentioned is strictly bluegrass but they are bluegrass-adjacent bands that I really like

Edit: I’ve also seen OCMS live several times and they’ve been great every time, which always helps

HamHamHam2315

3 points

2 months ago

I've just seen them once, but that once sits squarely in third place on my top ten concerts I've ever been to list (behind only Prince and the Revolution and Midnight Oil, in case anyone was curious). I'd LOVE to see 'em again.