Old-Time Music Play List

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I liked that Jason. Would love to play my harp with that guy. What style music is that called, I would love to get a cd of that sort of thing?
Im guessing too your a music man, I am trying to figure out or find a good sort of gospel type cd like, hard to explain as I am in Aus and don't know the correct term, blue grass type maybe?
Anyway, liked that track :up:
 
It's definitely bluegrass which came to America via Britain, (mostly Ulster, Scotland, and England) Probably the Closest Australian parallel would be Slim Dusty.

David Davis
PCA Montgomery
Dave,s Ravings
 
Ashley is playing a folk tune in the thumb-lead style of banjo. Most of these old tunes have been adopted and transformed by Bluegrass players. His style, when contrasted with Bluegrass, would be called Old Time. Old Time music lacks the metallic, industrial sounding drive of Bluegrass.

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A modern roots style more closely associated with Old Time would be Mumford & Sons.
[video=youtube;_KCg_QEHtkY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KCg_QEHtkY&list=PL12181BAD19704E13[/video]
 
A modern roots style more closely associated with Old Time would be Mumford & Sons.

Sadly, this is the state of old-time music. However may I recommend

Old Crow Medicine Show
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Charlie Parr
 
I like Mumford & Sons! haha Lumineers as well. Both groups are gateway bands to roots, folk and Old Time. Old Crow definitely tops for the Old Timey sound. Don't forget Tim Eriksen, his voice!
[video=youtube;u2yTiDlr8Mc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2yTiDlr8Mc[/video]

You can stream Deep Roots on CBC for free. They offer a nice blend of roots music from around the world.

CBC Music - Free Streaming Radio, Videos, Songs, Concerts & Playlists

Just for fun, Deep Roots has a chart (use to be a Dispey and love charts) that rates bands for they Old Timey look and sound.

CBC Music - Free Streaming Radio, Videos, Songs, Concerts & Playlists


Yours in the Lord,

jm
 
A couple of reccomendations:
[video=youtube;B__grJFFPHE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B__grJFFPHE[/video] the Snyder family

[video=youtube;__kQX12S9YI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__kQX12S9YI[/video] 2nd south Carolina string band politically incorrect but very authentic see also unreconstructed
David Davis
PCA Montgomery
Dave,s Ravings
 
Some good stuff there guys. I will admit, though im a bush Aussie through and through, I have never really been a fan of Old Slim Dusty. He's apparently a real good bloke, just don't like his music that much. That Snyder crew is gooood!
 
Thanks for this. We used to contra dance a lot, and the bands would commonly play Old Time.

What's a good way to explain the difference between Old Time and Bluegrass? Are there ready examples of the same tune in both styles?
 
Bluegrass Music & Old-Time Music: What's the difference? by Wayne Erbsen
So to put this in a nutshell, old-time music is mainly an upbeat instrumental dance music while bluegrass is a vocal style where the instruments freely improvise. In old-time, the fiddle is boss, and in bluegrass, most often the singer takes the lead.

RALEIGH: Bluegrass vs. old-time music: A primer | Daily bluegrass coverage | NewsObserver.com
While this is a gross over-simplification, here are the two quickest ways to tell whether a band is bluegrass or old-time:

• Type of banjo – In old-time, it’s typically an open-back model. Bluegrass banjo has a resonator and is louder.

• Solos – Everyone just plays the song straight on through in old-time, which rarely has individual solos. In bluegrass, there are “breaks,” interludes in which each instrumentalist takes a lead solo while the rest of the players stick to the main melody.

This article by Diller will help:
Why Bluegrass and Old Time Are Not The Same | Dwight Diller
I, for one, do not accept the myth that bluegrass is the lineal descendent of oldtime music. Rather, bluegrass is a modern very urbanized genre, connected to the 1930s-50s industrialization of rural Southerners, that drew on a diversity of musical genres that were available through radio and phonograph such as oldtime, western swing, gospel, big band jazz, blues, parlor songs, Hawaiian music, etc in order to create something new that expressed the experience of mountain folk in urban exile. Ralph Stanley describes the bluegrass sensibility exactly in those very terms. It’s the music of folk who were losing their traditions and past and used this form to hold on to and recapture their memory of a pre-industrial lifestyle.

In oldtime music the tradition has not been lost, it may be resisting change but it has not been displaced, it is not a modern music. I for one celebrate the fact that oldtime music is not bluegrass or dawg music or new grass or even claw grass (which sounds like an agricultural disease or killer weed). Oldtime works from different tonal centers, it uses open tunings and harmonic resonant overtones and incidentals, it mixes non-tempered scales with harmonization or it’s completely modal. Compared to bluegrass or country western its largely dance centered and not song centered, many of its songs are verses to dance tunes, and most of its songs were meant for solo and unaccompanied performance in their oldest form. It is often not strictly symmetrical in its rhythms; a-rhythmic fiddle and banjo tunes are common particularly in West Virginia and Kentucky. Drones, bowed or fifth stringed, are central and not incidental to the music.

I'll use banjo as the example because I think it's easier to demonstrate the difference.

A fella playing Cripple Creek Bluegrass style:
[video=youtube;BmsDR4G_M6w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmsDR4G_M6w[/video]

I'm playing Cripple Creek in the Old Timey way:
[video=youtube;QAAbTK5i02A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAbTK5i02A[/video]
 
A few that make my toes curl:

[video=youtube;F-LP7Veua1Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-LP7Veua1Q[/video]

[video=youtube;6EkwLgBT4hA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EkwLgBT4hA[/video]
[NOTE: after this one is over, one of the band members uses the Lord's name irreverently]

[video=youtube;1ECVXza9QaQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ECVXza9QaQ[/video]

[video=youtube;EWBkrt9JviU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWBkrt9JviU[/video]
 
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