Now that the weather is getting warmer, it’s time to go out on the front porch and enjoy some good ole foot-stompin’, banjo-pickin’, moonshine-drinkin’ Bluegrass! Bluegrass music tells the story of America’s history in a way unlike any other genre. Long before iTunes, families would grab whatever string instruments they had available and play songs about love, heartbreak, life and drinking, with equal parts humor and sorrow. Below is a selection of live, studio, and field recordings made starting from the 1930s through this past decade. This is because any further writing or saving of data how to recover shortcut files in hard drive using cmd on the drive can overwrite the deleted files and make them unrecoverable.

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Bluegrass is about history, but it isn’t stuck in the past. For example:

“I’m Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail” was recorded by a young Jerry Garcia (a huge fan of bluegrass) in the kitchen of Frank Wakefield. At one point you can hear Frank’s baby crying in the background.

“Memphis, Tennessee” is actually a Bluegrass cover of a Chuck Berry song, who Jim and Jesse both recognized as a huge influence on the development of American music.

“Jesse James” tells the story of this near mythical figure from American history long before Brad Pitt brought his story to the big screen.

“Coal Miner Blues” tells of the hardship and tragedy of working in the mines, a tale of woe that’s sadly still all too real in today’s modern age.

“In The Pines” is a version of an old Ledbelly song that should sound familiar to any fans of Nirvana’s Unplugged album.

“Man of Constant Sorrow” was a Bluegrass standard long before George Clooney’s Soggy Bottom Boys made it a hit in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

“Insult to Injury” and “I Made Her Laugh” are two of the most recent offerings, demonstrating that the Bluegrass tradition is still alive and well with a modern twist.