Bluegrass Briefing June 16th 2025

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass.

Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode.

News and Announcements (Church Street News)

Tony Rice Backwaters re-releaseDel McCoury Pickin’ PartyBluegrass at the Ryman

Releases (The Grass is New)

The Grass is (mostly) New 2025 playlist

Scroll on Buddy

Gabe Witcher InterviewAppleSpotifyYouTube

In My Ears

Bill C Malone BookTed Olson interviewAppleSpotifyYouTube

Other bits

Sign up for emails https://bluegrassjamalong.com/contact/The Grass is (mostly) New 2025 playlistFull list of interviewsCollings Guitars

Happy picking.

Matt

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Bluegrass Jam Along

The IBMA Award winning podcast for anyone and everyone who loves bluegrass. 

Free fiddle tune backing tracks and interviews with amazing people from the world of bluegrass. 

For every tune we give you four brand new tracks: 

- Backup 4 times through (you play the tune or improvise breaks)
- Tune 4 times through (you play backup)
- ‘Jam Along’ (4 complete run throughs, alternating backup and tune)
- Full performance

For more info and chord charts, visit https://bluegrassjamalong.com. Hope you find these tracks useful (and thanks for listening!) - Matt

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