Across the Blue Ridge #155 - Common Characteristics and Differences Between Old-Time and Bluegrass Music

Over the years, many people have asked us to explain what distinguishes old-time music from bluegrass, and vice versa.  This week, we're taking up the challenge.  Join ATBR host Paul Brown for a little history; an audio tour of the main characteristics of old-time music and is more modern descendant, bluegrass; and the synthesis and invention that gave Bill Monroe's style of music, now known as bluegrass, its distinctive identity.  Along the way, you'll hear a fabulous selection of outstanding, classic old-time, blues and bluegrass cuts.  Not to be missed!

Playlist

1. John Brown's Dream
   Tommy Jarrell
   June Apple
   Heritage
    
2. Why Did You Wander
   Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
   The Essential Bill Monroe Vol. 1
   Sony
    
3. Early In The Spring
   Dellie Norton
   High Atmosphere
   Rounder
    
4. Remember And Do Pray For Me
   Lloyd Chandler
   High Atmosphere
   Rounder
    
5. Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
   Frank Proffitt
   High Atmosphere
   Rounder
    
6. Go Tell It On The Mountain
   Fannie Lou Hamer & choir
   Classic African American Gospel
   Smithsonian Folkways
    
7. Way Down In My Soul
   Friendly Four Quartet
   WPAQ: The Voice Of The Blue Ridge Mountains
   Rounder
    
8. Break 1 - Pike County Breakdown
   Billy Baker
   Mountains Of Music Homecoming 2015
   Crooked Road
    
9. Outskirts Of Town
   Josh White
   Classic Appalachian Blues
   Smithsonian Folkways
    
10. Lonesome Road Blues
    Cousin Emmy
    Cousin Emmy & Her Kinfolks
    Bear Family
     
11. True Life Blues
    Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
    The Essential Bill Monroe Vol. 1
    Sony
     
12. Walking In The Parlor
    The Hillbillies
    Volume 1
    Document
     
13. Ground Speed
    Earl Scruggs
    Foggy Mountain Banjo
    Columbia
     
14. Toy Heart
    Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
    The Essential Bill Monroe Vol. 1
    Sony
     
15. Shady Grove
    Norman Edmonds & The Old Timers
    Norman Edmonds
    FRC Field Recorders Collective
     
16. Break 2 - Twinkle Little Star
    Lauchlin Shaw
    Going Down To Raleigh: Stringband Music In The North Carolina Piedmont 1996-1998
    Pine Cone
     
17. Cotton Eyed Joe
    Camp Creek Boys
    Old Time String Band
    County
     
18. Sunny Side Of The Mountain
    Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boyds
    You Don't Know My Mind
    Rounder
     
19. Shout Lula
    Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
    Short Life Of Trouble
    County
     
20. Sugar In The Gourd
    John Ashby & The Free State Ramblers
    John Ashby
    FRC Field Recorders Collective
     
21. Take Me In A Lifeboat
    Flatt & Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys
    1947-59 Vol. 1
    Bear Family
     
22. Sally Ann
    Sidna & Fulton Myers
    Clawhammer Banjo Vol. 2
    County