Appalachian music anyone?

[Wylden Freeborne]

Here is an amazing documentary about appalachian music, some of my favorite. If you are a fan, you will love it, and if you are not yet, you will be. These folks really put soul into those songs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXh8SDp0H-E

[Parnell]

Try to make it to the TN Classic.  Lots of good music played there.

[blackhawk]

Yes sir...I do luv me sum Appalachia  n I ain't the only one round here who does 

[Hillbilly]

I've been known to listen to a little Appalachian music from time to time.

[bowtarist]

TWO THUMBS UP on the Mountain Music!! dpg

[JW_Halverson]

Appalachian music has deep roots in the Celtic tradition, but it has grown a lot since then.  Bluegrass, Country and Western, Folk music from the 60's, Rockabilly, rock and roll, and Americana/American Roots music all grew from this source.  Alan Lomax's recordings made in the 1930's and 1940's...DIG 'EM UP!  The folks he recorded are the real deal.

Something irresistible about this music.   

[Traxx]

These are my Dads people.I always get a kick outa the subtitles when they interview these people.I understand em just fine.LOL

[Wylden Freeborne]

These are my Dads people.I always get a kick outa the subtitles when they interview these people.I understand em just fine.LOL

Yeah, i speak fluent mountain, brooklyn, drunken new york irishman and ohioan (they use deesh warshrags on their deeshes). I am working on my northwoods as well!

[RyanR]

OK, I really enjoy bluegrass. What is the difference between Appalachian and bluegrass?

[JW_Halverson]

OK, I really enjoy bluegrass. What is the difference between Appalachian and bluegrass?

Bluegrass is a modern offshoot of Appalachian music.  I don't know anyone that knows the difference and dislikes one or the other. 

This thread got me to thinking and last nite I dug out the Little Sparrow cd by Dolly Parton.  Some of the songs on that cd were taught to her by her elders when she was just a little girl. One of the songs on the cd seems to date back in one form or another for about 400 years!  She also does a version of Collective Soul's hit song, "Shine".  It rocks, especially the breakdown at the end.

[Wylden Freeborne]

That Dolly CD is in our player in the kitchen more often than not! I would state that some differences in Bluegrass and Appalachian lies in tempo, bluegrass being generally faster, instrumentation, appalachian often times being acapella or primitive instrumentation such as mouth bow, jews harp, diddlystring or bones, where as bluegrass is a touch more slick, with guitars, banjos, mandolin and fiddle being present most all of the time. The rhythm and cadence of appalachian rings of old irish and english balladry and poetry more than bluegrass as well. Think of appalachian to bluegrass as slave songs are to blues.

[Hillbilly]

Bluegrass involves the 5-string banjo played with fingerpicks. Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, and Bill Monroe were some of the forefathers of Bluegrass. A bluegrass band usually also includes mandolin, guitar, fiddle, dobro, and upright bass. "Old-time" mountain music is closer to its Celtic origins. It's mostly banjo, fiddle, or dulcimer, and the banjo is usually a 4-string played "clawhammer style." There are a lot of old Scottish and Irish ballads that date back several hundred years that are still sung back here in the hollers.