Progressive Bluegrass Music: Album, Track and Artist Charts

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Description of Progressive Bluegrass

When younger players started playing Bluegrass music in the late 1950s and '60s, they introduced new elements. These included drums and electric instruments, (Bluegrass was traditionally all acoustic) as well as songs composed by newer writers like Bob Dylan. The Country Gentlemen were the first major group to update the Classic Bluegrass sound in this way. The Osborne Brothers and Jim and Jesse also turned to more contemporary styles and songs in order to broaden their audience. By the end of the '60s, folk fans and even long-haired rock 'n' rollers were playing an even more far-fetched and newfangled variation of Bluegrass -- dubbed "newgrass" after a band called the New Grass Revival -- and bringing it to a whole new generation. The Country Gentlemen were one thing, but much of this New/Grass made traditionalists cringe.

Progressive Bluegrass Key Tracks

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Play/Add	Track	Artist
	1. Ode To A Butterfly	Nickel Creek
	2. Blue Mountain Hop	Bela Fleck
	3. One More Day	Diamond Rio
	4. Victim Of Life's Circumstances	Vince Gill
	5. Uncle Pen	Ricky Skaggs
	6. Restless	Mark O'Connor
	7. Pig In A Pen - Old & In The Way	Jerry Garcia
	8. Locking Doors	Chris Thile
	9. Blue Night	Hot Rize
	10. Lonesome L. A. Cowboy	Old & In The Way
	11. Photograph	Malibu Storm
	12. Jump	David Lee Roth
	13. San Antonio Rose	Vassar Clements
	14. City Of New Orleans	The Seldom Scene

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Progressive Bluegrass Key Artists

Bela Fleck

Widely acknowledged as
one of the world's most
innovative and technically
proficient banjo players,
Fleck plays newgrass. Fle...

Bill Keith

Much like Doug Dillard, Bill
Keith revolutionized
Bluegrass music with his
signature style of banjo
playing.

Chris Thile

Chris Thile is known in the
country music world as the
Clarence White of
mandolin. The young man is
an absolute virtuoso. Asid...

David Grisman

Known for his
collaborations with the late
Jerry Garcia, Grisman has
led his own Bluegrass
quintet dating back to the...

Freakwater

Freakwater's songs are
rustic reflections of
wide-open countrysides
mixed with mountain air and
floating vocal harmonies....

Hot Rize

Hot Rize are a progressive,
Rocky Mountain string-band
featuring virtuosos Pete
Wernick and Tim O'Brien.
They formed in 1977.

J.D. Crowe

J.D. Crowe was one of the
founders of progressive
bluegrass. His innovative
banjo playing pushed
bluegrass' margins outwar...

Jerry Garcia

Best known as the lead
vocalist for the Grateful
Dead, the late Garcia was an
admirable folk and
bluegrass player as well....

John Hartford

Most people know Hartford
for "Gentle on My Mind," but
he is a massive influence on
country-folk and
progressive bluegrass. Ha...

Muleskinner

A veritable who's who of
West Coast Progressive
Bluegrass players make up
this legendary band. They
helped Bluegrass evolve.

New Grass Revival

Nickel Creek

This young trio from San
Diego plays devastatingly
beautiful bluegrass and folk
songs sung by an
angelic-voiced singer. Ma...

Norman Blake

Blake combines Old-Time
String Band music, Bluegrass
fiddle tunes, Country Blues,
Early Jazz and even Tin Pan
Alley pop.

Old & In The Way

Old & In The Way were a
progressive bluegrass band
comprising Jerry Garcia,
David Grisman, Vassar
Clements and Peter Rowa...

Peter Rowan

Peter Rowan is a bluegrass
vet who helped push the
boundaries of the genre
into progressive realms
without getting too jammy...

Sam Bush

Sam Bush is best known as
the founder of the New
Grass Revival, the group
most often associated with
electric bluegrass.

Sean Watkins

Sean Watkins is a bluegrass
aficionado. He's also a
member of the acoustic-pop
band, Nickel Creek.

The Kentucky Colonels

They were one of the very
first Progressive Bluegrass
bands, innovating traditional
picking with stylishly hyper
arpeggios. Playing Progres...

The Seldom Scene

Since the '70s the Seldom
Scene have been
progressive bluegrass
icons, fusing traditional
bluegrass, country-rock a...

Tony Rice

Tony Rice is a
standard-setting acoustic
flat-picking guitarist,
combining elements of jazz,
Swing, and other forms of...

Yonder Mountain String Band

Popular among
"festavarians," Yonder
Mountain String Band plays
progressive bluegrass with a
traditional acoustic set-up...

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