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The Freight and Salvage Gives Bluegrass A Microphone On The West Coast

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine October 1996, Volume 21, Number 4 Tim O’Brien was just learning the fiddle in 1974 when he got the itch to go to California. He grabbed the instrument, slung a backpack over his shoulder, stuck out his thumb in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and hitchhiked to Berkeley. While checking out the…

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Bass Basics – Part 2

In the video lesson Dan Miller explains and demonstrates three simple patterns that a bass player can use to play a I-IV-V progression. By knowing and utilizing one of these three patterns, you can easily play a I-IV-V progression in any key on the bass.

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178: Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Eric Thompson

This week we are talking with guitar player Eric Thompson.  Jerry Garcia is on the cover of the March 2024 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited and Eric performed in a band with Jerry prior to Garcia forming The Grateful Dead.  We talk with Eric…

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Bass Basics – Part 1

In this video lesson Dan Miller shows three different patterns that can be used to play a root-fifth note sequence on the upright bass. After demonstrating the patterns, he shows how those patterns might be used in application, with variations, in the keys of G, C, D and A.

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The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine August 2018, Volume 53, Number 2 The new $15 million Bluegrass Music Hall Of Fame & Museum is set to open October 18 this year. After a $100 million riverfront rebuild, Owensboro, Ky., is a new city and destination. To borrow an oft-used phrase, in the minds of bluegrass lovers,…

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177: Bluegrass Unlimited Podcast with Chris Joslin

This week we are talking with Chris Joslin, the Executive Director of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum about some exciting events and projects that are coming up this year at the museum and at other locations in and around Owensboro,…

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