Montana Rockies Bluegrass Association

Following is the link to WPLN out of Nashville. Once a week they have a radio show titled “Bluegrass Breakdown” you can listen live or to recorded shows. The show includes live performances, interviews, theme shows and just good bluegrass music. The DJ also provides a little history of the songs.

http://wpln.org/?cat=4

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For those who haven’t tried this yet, there is a really cool Internet radio web site at www.pandora.com. Once you log onto the site, simply enter in your favorite artist or song, and the web site creates a radio station that features songs by that artist as well as similar types of music. You can enter any artist ranging from new to old from Bill Monroe to Ralph Stanley or any other bluegrass favorite. You can also search for stations that others have created.  I searched on bluesgrass stations and there was three pages of links to choose from.  The web site has compiled a wide variety of songs that make up the playlist. It is a great way to listen bluegrass music.

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If you working on your computer and get an urge to listen to some bluegrass, try the Montana Radio Cafe at http://www.kxzi.com/. The playlist includes a mix of bluegrass, folk and jazz with an ample helping of bluegrass. The web-streaming radio station is based in Creston, MT (between Kalispell and Big Fork). In September, the radio station was featured in an article in the New York Times. There is a link to the article on the web site. This is definitely worth checking out.

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There is no “spacegrass”, or “jamgrass” on this record. This CD is traditional bluegrass, played in the styles of Flatt & Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers, & Bill Monroe. It sounds like great care was taken to get the old sounds out of a newer studio. The instruments sound like they were recorded in a room with egg carton sound dampening on the walls, and the harmonies sound like harmonies used to, when the whole band gathered around one microphone and let it fly. This is the way our music sounded before Ricky Skaggs, and Alison Krauss got ahold of it. Even the dobro on “Some Old Day”sounds like ol’ Josh Graves played it hisself. Bill Junior has given us a great collection of old songs, played with great care & attention to detail, and I enjoyed every song. I highly recommend it for fans of the old stuff. Thank you Bill Junior & the Montana Rangers. You can hear clips from this CD at Lonesome Pine Records.

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