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The Steep Canyon Rangers

I just saw and heard on The Tonight Show a great group I was unaware of, The Steep Canyon Rangers, and they are great! Drumset, upright bass, acoustic guitar, harmonica, mandolin, and fiddle, and excellent 3-part harmony, doing a real good song. I gotta get a record!
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Thanks Tammy, will do.
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Yeah, what the Hell?!
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Thanks a million Walter and Bill. Walter, unfortunately I’m on the West Coast (Vancouver, WA), so the only Bluegrass Festival in my neighborhood is the annual Hardly Strictly Festival in San Francisco, which all my old San Jose (hometown) friends go to. I haven’t made it to one yet, but intend to.

Bill, I get email notices of your blogs/reviews, but hadn’t yet seen your review of the Joe Henry-produced SCR album. Excellent review, touching on everything, both musically and sonically. The music is my priority, good sound being a welcome bonus. I appreciated your mention of The Band, whom I was reminded of (in a modest way) while watching and listening to SCR on the TV. I love that SCR recorded a number of songs playing and singing live in the studio, as The Band did on their 2nd ("Brown") album. Gotta get the SCR LP!

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Walter, I thought the name sounded familiar! What most surprised me was that although they look relatively young, they play the music with a sense of authority, like they’ve been doing it forever. A lot of the Americana bands sound like they were raised on Rock, only discovering bluegrass/hillbilly/etc. fairly recently. "Real" Bluegrass musician’s start playing at a young age (in some "rural" families, everybody plays and sings), and by the time they are in their teens are real good players and singers. Marty Stuart was hired by Lester Flatt when he was 14 years old!
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