watercarving - Posted - 10/28/2021:  11:43:47

What players, groups, albums, etc are you listening to right now that is influencing your playing? Can be just old-time instrumental or singing.

I'd say for me it is:

Chris Coole
Lonesome Ace String Band
Frank Lee
John Hartford (the old-time albums....Wild Hog in the Red Brush, Speed of the Old Longbow)

Bill Rogers - Posted - 10/28/2021:  13:13:08

Walt Koken, as always; Leon Ballard; Russ Carson; Coole; Alison de Groot. 

Edited by - Bill Rogers on 10/28/2021 13:15:05

leehar - Posted - 10/28/2021:  13:31:28

Mostly Reno and Smiley, JD Crowe and Osborne Brothers lately.

MoJoBanjo - Posted - 10/28/2021:  13:36:23

Can't stop listening to Bela's new CD....something to aspire to, but I'll never achieve. Set that bar high!

Turpen1 - Posted - 10/28/2021:  13:58:58

youtube.com/watch?v=tfCiPn9RLlM Love the old clips, Earl pick'n a guitar now and then, and especially Lester's '42 D18!

csacwp - Posted - 10/28/2021:  14:13:30

Right now? Psychic Distance by Inferno. Banjo-wise though I've been enjoying Clifton Hicks' latest album.

gratefulbiker - Posted - 10/28/2021:  15:16:41

Pandora Radio always does a good job of introducing me to new stuff I might not have found otherwise. A couple of my stations keep me supplied with tunes from Black Twig Pickers, The Gilded Bats, Mark Simos & Friends, The Wilders, Foghorn Stringband, and several others. Also have R.D. Lunceford's Drop Thumb CD in heavy rotation since I'm working my way through the accompanying tab book.

geoB - Posted - 10/28/2021:  16:38:42

This very instant...

Clark Terry

Bill Rogers - Posted - 10/28/2021:  21:40:58

Pretty eclectic for the presumed old-time clawhammer crowd.

watercarving - Posted - 10/29/2021:  05:07:32

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Originally posted by Bill Rogers

Pretty eclectic for the presumed old-time clawhammer crowd.

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I listen to a wide range of music from blues to metal to old-time. However, I should have been more specific.......what old-time/clawhammerists are you currently listening to?

GrahamHawker - Posted - 10/29/2021:  07:06:56

Elizabeth Laprelle and Anna and Elizabeth

Edited by - GrahamHawker on 10/29/2021 07:09:39

m06 - Posted - 10/29/2021:  12:15:56

In my car CD player recently…Wade Ward FRC507, Uncle Charlie Higgins, Wade Ward & Dale Poe FRC501, Troublesome Creek’s 2005 album ‘Fast As Time Can Take Me’ and Sidna & Fulton Myers FRC.

GeorgeG - Posted - 10/29/2021:  12:20:10

Check out Laurel Premo on Youtube and, of course, Billy Strings. Both young pickers are from my northwest lower Michigan neck of the woods. And they ARE good.

watercarving - Posted - 10/29/2021:  12:37:36

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Originally posted by GeorgeG

Check out Laurel Premo on Youtube and, of course, Billy Strings. Both young pickers are from my northwest lower Michigan neck of the woods. And they ARE good.

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I love Billy Strings. Got to see him live and up close in September of 2019. Fantastic show. He's a descent clawhammerist himself.

5Stringtrout - Posted - 10/29/2021:  13:20:59

"Old Time From Pocahontas County" by Dwight Diller and Terry Richardson is in heavy rotation here.

KevinV - Posted - 10/30/2021:  11:55:35

"Old-Time Pickin" by Ralph Stanley

ChunoTheDog - Posted - 10/30/2021:  12:15:13

Someone stop me, I've been listening to older Marty Robbins stuff for about two weeks now....THOSE STORIES!!

KatB - Posted - 10/30/2021:  18:46:09

Paul Brown, esp Blue Goose, Brushy Fork, Cuckoo's nest. Also Rachel Eddy, Jeff Norman, Hilarie Burhans, Rayna Gellert (Old Bangum!) WERU "High on a Mountain" program, last two episodes are archived so you can listen any time, Here's the link, and there's also an app. WERU

Don Borchelt - Posted - 10/30/2021:  19:20:36

This is what I was listening to right this second, as I sip my nightcap.

 

chip arnold - Posted - 10/31/2021:  10:04:59

Seth Swingle, Will Keys, Omer Forster, Don Borchelt, Nick Hornbuckle, Lawrence Eller, Morgan Sexton ...

mrphysics55 - Posted - 11/06/2021:  08:14:44

Olafur Arnalds

m.youtube.com/watch?v=KrQV8nTCwqg

No banjos ... but there are fiddles.

Edited by - mrphysics55 on 11/06/2021 08:16:04

gratefulbiker - Posted - 11/06/2021:  08:25:10

This morning has been a steady diet of The Tillers, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, and Pert Near Sandstone.

carlb - Posted - 11/07/2021:  04:34:39

Again and also, Anna and Elizabeth

youtube.com/results?search_que...elizabeth

ceemonster - Posted - 11/08/2021:  20:36:58

Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, "Instrumentals."

Dwight Diller, "Just Banjo '99."

Pat Dunford, "Pat Dunford" (Puritan 1978)

Tav Falco's Panther Burns, "Behind the Magnolia Curtain"

Link Wray, "Rumble! The Best of Link Wray"

WVDreamin - Posted - 11/09/2021:  07:48:41

Bluegrass Cardinals - Welcome to Virginia, and Cardinal Class. Two of my favorite albums.

madkelt2004 - Posted - 11/10/2021:  08:37:14

Joan Jett

gentrixuk - Posted - 11/10/2021:  08:53:54

Right now I'm also listening to Anna and Elizabeth - The Invisible Comes To Us

Helix - Posted - 11/21/2021:  04:52:06

Beautiful Big Blue - Amazon.comamazon.com › Beautiful-Big-Blue-Sarah-T...

Helix - Posted - 11/23/2021:  03:59:33

It's Sarah Tolle Beautiful Big Blue. just released.

Brodoh - Posted - 11/24/2021:  20:13:38

Ordinary Elephants, also the Lowest Pair and Ritchie & Rosie.

sugarinthegourd - Posted - 11/25/2021:  07:42:00

I’ve become fairly obsessed with Joseph Decosimo’s “The Aluminum Wonder,” which I enjoy more and more with each additional play.

josephdecosimo.bandcamp.com/al...um-wonder

And then I spend hours trying to track down and listen to his sources.

BeeEnvironment - Posted - 11/25/2021:  07:48:18

I am listening to Phillys Thanksgiving Day Parade right now, honestly. When I am in the car: Christmas Music. When I listen on my computer: "Pete Seeger" and other good old folks!

jojo25 - Posted - 11/29/2021:  10:24:55

Eva Cassidy, Louis Armstrong, Highwoods String Band, my wife

jojo25 - Posted - 12/07/2021:  09:04:31

I am listening to the tintinitus in my head...kinda sounds like crickets...in summer it is very easy to ignore...there are crickets singing...so what? In winter I notice it more

hweinberg - Posted - 12/08/2021:  07:07:35

Tommy Jarrell because I am going to be playing this weekend with a fiddler who is learning Round Peak style. But I appreciated the other answers -- lots to listen to. Thanks to everyone!

chip arnold - Posted - 12/08/2021:  14:21:07

A jam at my Clifftop camp 15 years ago.