might as well mention some good bluegrass, since it's often my genre of choice.
for some good old-timey stuff, try:
Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys
The Monroe Brothers (see above link)
Doc and/or Merle Watson
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs (and the Foggy Mountain Boys)
Allison Krauss and Union Station
and for some different/newer sounds, try:
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
The Wayfaring Strangers ("Shifting Sands of Time" is really a spectacular album, worth checking out)
The String Cheese Incident
Yonder Mountain String Band
anything with Tony Trischka
and finally, for a man in a class by himself, checkout the following John Hartford albums:
Morning Bugle
Mark Twang
Me Oh My How Time Does Fly (anthology)
and the greatest album of all times, aereo-plane
"some day my baby, when I am a man
and others have taught me the best that they can
sell me a suit, and cut off my hair
and send me to work in tall buildings
cause it's goodbye to the sunshine,
goodbye to the dew
goodbye to the flowers
and goodbye to you
I'm off to the subway, I mustn't be late,
I'm going to work in tall buildings.
now when I retire, my life is my own
I've made all my payments, it's time to go home
I wonder what happened, betwixt and between,
when I went to work in tall buildings
cause it's goodbye to the sunshine,
goodbye to the dew
goodbye to the flowers
and goodbye to you
I'm off to the subway, I mustn't be late,
I'm going to work in tall buildings." --John Hartford, "In Tall Buildings"
RIP John,
--au
