Aggressive punk blue grass anyone? I'm looking

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Hey people.

I am absolutely sick and tired of boring hardcore, metal in the punk rock and chocolate in my peanut butter... well, not the last one.

Does anyone know of any bands that actually play blue grass, traditional American music from the 20's, 30's, 40's or what was called "country music" before that term became the indefensible domain of smirking pricks with no talent and cowboy hats, THAT is played in a ferocious manner, like a punk rock before that term became pretty meaningless???

I don't want ironic gimmick bands, I want the real deal.

Anyone know anybody???

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Sunday, 17 September 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Riot-Folk! Collective. Their motto is "Making Folk a threat again".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 17 September 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

lock thread?

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:22 (twenty years ago)

I always thought of Violent Femmes as kinda fitting into this a bit - especially some of the Blind Leading the Naked and (less so) 3

― spectra (spectra), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:33 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't playing bluegrass music from the 20s 30s and 40s today kind of make you a novelty band by definition? I mean maybe not an "ironic" one.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:40 (twenty years ago)

not really sure what you're looking for, but Steve Earle's record with bluegrassers the Del McCoury Band, The Mountain, may fit the bill

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:42 (twenty years ago)

you might like jim & jennie and the pinetops. they are pretty cool.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=12192122

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

This is really pretty good, thanks Scott! I'm going to get their album from eMusic as soon as my downloads recharge.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:59 (twenty years ago)

The first two songs both have that Neil Young "Out On The Weekend" groove, which is a VERY good thing.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:01 (twenty years ago)

there's a Minnesota act called (um) Trampled by Turtles that plays bluegrassy folk stuff at about 150 bpm.

I need to be very clear that this is not my thing in any way.

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:03 (twenty years ago)

BTW, what we call "bluegrass" music was actually in no way "traditional." It was a highly commercial hybrid of appalachian music, blues and jazz.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

I have an MP3 of John Hiatt covering "I Wanna Be Sedated," that's pretty good.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:16 (twenty years ago)

when I was 15 I told the guy I was taking guitar lessons from that I wanted to start a bluegrass punk band, but I only said that because he was a douche and I wanted to piss him off

(I didn't go through with it, so I can't help you now)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:21 (twenty years ago)

don't the bad livers sort of fit this?

― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.livemusicbeth.homestead.com/files/dg_bela6_1.jpg

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

does anyone remember the horseflies? they covered the cramps on their first album. i liked that album.

and apparently they are still around:

http://www.thehorseflies.com/

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

Split Lip Rayfield?

― zach mercer (suizen), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:46 (twenty years ago)

Blag Jesus of the Dwarves did a bluegrass album under the name Earl Lee Grace called Blackgrass which is pretty great.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Eugene Chadbourne?

― spectra (spectra), Monday, 18 September 2006 03:40 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/terabithian/musikmakers/eugenec.jpg

― spectra (spectra), Monday, 18 September 2006 03:44 (twenty years ago)

A second for Trampled by Turtles. Saw them in Boston last year opening for Camper Van Beethoven and they were amazing.

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:09 (twenty years ago)

Langhorne Slim

― ewmy (ewmy), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:13 (twenty years ago)

Split Lip Rayfield seconded; great live band. I also like The Meat Purveyors.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 18 September 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

The D Rangers, from Winnipeg, Canada.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Meat Puppets and Meat Puppets II will do nicely.

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

yeah MVB seriously

― Lazy Comet (plsmith), Monday, 18 September 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for J&J&the pinetops Scott, beautiful music.

Good stuff everyone, what I am looking for are bands currently producing music, who is doing for blue grass, "old timey music" and early country, what Gun Club and X did for early r&r and country.

Keep going and many thanks

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 02:48 (twenty years ago)

Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

― chad (chad), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 06:07 (twenty years ago)

Blood On The Saddle would be a nice addition, but I haven't even SEEN any of their LPs in years...

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 07:10 (twenty years ago)

this is actually exactly what yr looking for. i used to have it but i sold it and now i can't remember if it was any good. but it's punk bluegrass for sure:

http://www.thirdav.com/hd_discog/img/killbilly.jpg

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

>Doesn't playing bluegrass music from the 20s 30s and 40s today
>kind of make you a novelty band by definition?

You're discounting a huge niche market for this kind of thing, especially overseas.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

And in reference to the original question, have you tried flogging molly? It uses irish folk music, not bluegrass, but I think it might be up your alley.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

SPLIT LIP RAYFIELD is as close as you are going to get.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

the meat purveyors! they just broke up, btw

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/splitliprayfield

xpost Meat Purveyors, YES

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Also, the Bad Livers!

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9256/reignoy4.jpg

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

I will never post this again.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

*reads upthread*

Damn you timmy tannin!

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

BR-549 used to put on some awesome shows in Nashville with crazy-ass Hendrix-like fiddle playing. Then they got signed and their sound got kind of "packaged", if you know what I mean.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Doo-Rag, surely? I saw them support Jon Spencer once and they rocked so hard they made the Blues Explosion seem timid by comparison. Happy days.

Also these guys: http://www.myspace.com/pinehillhaints, seem to match the description pretty well. They played in Sheffield one time and I didn't go to see them, but from what I gathered they are basically Thrasher kids playing bluegrass.

― myopic_void (myopic_void), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Buy yourself a Jr Gone Wild album or two and get this phase over with.

Handsome Ned and Kd Lang's first two albums may or may not work for you either. Oh Cowpunk, how I don't miss you.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:59 (twenty years ago)

How 'bout The Gourds? There's a video of their cover of Snoop's "Gin and Juice" @ y0utub3.

― mark 0 (mark 0), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I am going to be chuckling about "Foggy Mountain ANARCHY" for the rest of the day.

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

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