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Allison Krauss & Union Station Live
Allison Krauss & Union Station Live
This 2-disc set features over 20 songs from the 2002 live performance by this bluegrass ensemble in Louisville, Kentucky. Disc 1 includes live performances of all the songs, while Disc 2 includes interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and more.
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Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show - All 8 Volumes
Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show - All 8 Volumes
The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show series contains the best musical performances from a long lost TV showtaped in the 1950s and 1960s. Never available before, this footage features Flatt and Scruggs in their prime with their group the Foggy Mountain Boys playing many of their most famous songs as well as many other bluegrass classicsFlatt and Scruggs are one of the most popular bluegrass bands of all time. All Eight DVD's - 16 shows in all - for only $134.95!
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Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 1
Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 1
The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show series contains the best musical performances from a long lost TV showtaped in the 1950s and 1960s. Never available before, this footage features Flatt and Scruggs in their prime with their group the Foggy Mountain Boys playing many of their most famous songs as well as many other bluegrass classicsFlatt and Scruggs are one of the most popular bluegrass bands of all time.
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Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 2
Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 2
The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show series contains the best musical performances from a long lost TV showtaped in the 1950s and 1960s. Never available before, this footage features Flatt and Scruggs in their prime with their group the Foggy Mountain Boys playing many of their most famous songs as well as many other bluegrass classicsFlatt and Scruggs are one of the most popular bluegrass bands of all time.
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Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 4
Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 4
The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show series contains the best musical performances from a long lost TV showtaped in the 1950s and 1960s. Never available before, this footage features Flatt and Scruggs in their prime with their group the Foggy Mountain Boys playing many of their most famous songs as well as many other bluegrass classicsFlatt and Scruggs are one of the most popular bluegrass bands of all time.
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Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 5
Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 5
The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show series contains the best musical performances from a long lost TV showtaped in the 1950s and 1960s. Never available before, this footage features Flatt and Scruggs in their prime with their group the Foggy Mountain Boys playing many of their most famous songs as well as many other bluegrass classicsFlatt and Scruggs are one of the most popular bluegrass bands of all time.
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Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 6
Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 6
The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show series contains the best musical performances from a long lost TV showtaped in the 1950s and 1960s. Never available before, this footage features Flatt and Scruggs in their prime with their group the Foggy Mountain Boys playing many of their most famous songs as well as many other bluegrass classicsFlatt and Scruggs are one of the most popular bluegrass bands of all time.
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Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 7
Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 7
The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show series contains the best musical performances from a long lost TV showtaped in the 1950s and 1960s. Never available before, this footage features Flatt and Scruggs in their prime with their group the Foggy Mountain Boys playing many of their most famous songs as well as many other bluegrass classicsFlatt and Scruggs are one of the most popular bluegrass bands of all time.
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Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 8
Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 8
The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show series contains the best musical performances from a long lost TV showtaped in the 1950s and 1960s. Never available before, this footage features Flatt and Scruggs in their prime with their group the Foggy Mountain Boys playing many of their most famous songs as well as many other bluegrass classicsFlatt and Scruggs are one of the most popular bluegrass bands of all time.
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Bluegrass Jam Session
Bluegrass Jam Session
Get in shape and ready for the next jam session or bluegrass festival with this new practice tape. Joe Carr and Alan Munde, along with the band, perform 15 songs for you to practice with and they explain each instrument's role in each song as well as provide tabulature for selected solos and backup parts as played on the banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and bass.
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Bluegrass Jam Session
Bluegrass Jam Session
Get in shape and ready for the next jam session or bluegrass festival with this new practice tape. Joe Carr and Alan Munde, along with the band, perform 15 songs for you to practice with and they explain each instrument's role in each song as well as provide tabulature for selected solos and backup parts as played on the banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and bass.
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Doc Watson And David Grisman In Concert
Doc Watson And David Grisman In Concert
Doc Watson and David Grisman have been friends since the 1960's when the then teenage Grisman was knocking out veteran performers at New York City folk clubs.
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Doc Watson: Rare Performances 1963-1981
Doc Watson: Rare Performances 1963-1981
This collection of rarely seen DVD performances illustrate the power and range of Doc's talents and the evolution of his performance style.
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Doc's Guitar Jam
Doc's Guitar Jam
Recorded at the 1992 Merle Watson Festival in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, this incredible jam session brings together five masters of flatpicking guitar - Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Dan Crary, Jack Lawrence and Steve Kaufman.
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High Lonesome - The Story of Bluegrass Music
High Lonesome - The Story of Bluegrass Music
With uncommon passion and devotion, High Lonesome traces the evolution of bluegrass, one of America's most vital musical fusions, from its folk roots in the Kentucky hills through the innovations which shaped its most modern forms.
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Hurst, Stafford & Sutton Live In Nashville
Hurst, Stafford & Sutton Live In Nashville
On this DVD Flatpicking Guitar Magazine presents three of the most talented guitar players in acoustic music performing together in a live concert setting. Bryan Sutton (IBMA Guitar Player of the Year award winner, former lead guitarist with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucy Thunder, and one of Nashville's top session players), Jim Hurst (two- time IBMA Guitar Player of the Year award winner), and highly respected guitar veteran Tim Stafford (Dusty Miller, Alison Krauss + Union Station, Blue Highway) provide a thoroughly enjoyable performance.
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Legends Of Flatpicking Gutiar
Legends Of Flatpicking Gutiar
n this 90-minute video, Doc Watson appears in half a dozen performances, ably supported by the late Merle Watson in one segment and by Jack Lawrence in the others.
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Leo Kottke Home & Away Revisited
Leo Kottke Home & Away Revisited
This DVD is filled with brilliant artistry and offbeat stories reflecting Leo Kottke's unique view of the world. This previously unavailable sold-out 1988 performance at Toronto's Bathurst St. Theater has been restored to feature Leo's entire performance showcasing his masterful six-string, twelve-string, and feslide guitar work.
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Old Time Festival Tunes For Clawhammer Banjo
Old Time Festival Tunes For Clawhammer Banjo
This book and two CD set is intended to be a tune repertoire book. It includes over 100 Old-Time festival favorites. Some are cliche', others unusual, some easy, some difficult. The book contains 2 lines of tablature (one basic and one advanced) as well as standard notation and suggested chords. The basic version should be playable by those with general clawhammer skills. The advanced version will require more time and finesse as it is more ornamental (often more than just melodic) and may include less than intuitive ways of playing some passages.
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Rice, Grier & Smith
Rice, Grier & Smith
In this one-hour session, Flatpicking Guitar Magazine presents three of today's top flatpicking guitarists performing together in a live concert setting. David Grier, three-time IBMA Guitar Player of the Year and one of Acoustic Guitar Magazine's "Artists of the Decade" performs with two-time IBMA Guitar Player of the Year, Kenny Smith, and long-time Tony Rice Unit member Wyatt Rice.
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Shure KSM27
Shure KSM27
Superb for recording or live performances at a modest price. This is the mic we recommend for single mic performances and use in our own bluegrass band and at our festival.
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Steve Kaufman In Concert: Flat Picking To The Next Level
Steve Kaufman In Concert: Flat Picking To The Next Level
This performance DVD features advanced solo arrangements by Steve Kaufman accompanied by Joe Carr. Kaufman's breezy, informal presentation puts the listener at ease and belies the complexity of his fluid technique, flawless musical taste, and rock-solid sense of timing. Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com !
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Steve's Favorite Flatpicking Instrumentals
Steve's Favorite Flatpicking Instrumentals
Steve Kaufman Teaches Crowd Pleasers and Show Stoppers One of Homespun's most prolific instructors teaches nine exciting and challenging pieces for intermediate to advanced flatpick guitarists. The instrumentals include bluegrass standards, Celtic session tunes, folk and pop arrangements and a beautiful waltz! AVAILABLE ONLY THROUGH DIGITAL DOWNLOADS Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Superior C-160 TrailPak I Instrument Gig Bag - Dreadnaught
Superior C-160 TrailPak I Instrument Gig Bag - Dreadnaught
On the road or at the festival, you'll be glad you're carrying a sturdy, lightweight Superior Trailpak bag! Every Trailpak bag features a black ballistic nylon exterior, a lined, padded interior, multi-stacked accessory pockets and a host of deluxe features that make Trailpak bags your best buy!
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Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2003
Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2003
The Telluride Bluegrass Festival has become an annual destination for acoustic music fans who make the pilgrimage to this town in Colorado's San Juan Mountains.
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The Stanley Brothers and Doc Watson
The Stanley Brothers and Doc Watson
Pete Seeger assumed hosting duties for the show RAINBOW QUEST back in the 1960s, which saw a fabulous array of guests gracing television screens. Among them were staples of the blues/bluegrass scenes Stanley Brothers and Doc Watson, who feature here. The Stanley Brothers are rarely represented in the visual medium, and this release represents their last filmed performance following the tragic demise of Carter Stanley shortly after filming.
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The Three Pickers
The Three Pickers
For one historic evening, American music legends Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and Ricky Skaggs joined forces as "The Three Pickers" to film a concert for public television, along with special guest Alison Krauss. Includes a bonus documentary. 85 minutes.
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Tony Rice: The Video Collection
Tony Rice: The Video Collection
This DVD presents Tony in three different settings recorded at the 1992 Merle Watson Festival playing a wide variety of music all stamped with his personal style and sound. Tony once remarked , 'Others have said about me from time to time that I have a unique tone and balance on the instrument. I just kind of play it the way I hear it.'
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Twin Mandolin Workshop
Twin Mandolin Workshop
This course has tablature for both the melody solo & the harmony part that fits it. For intermediate-advanced players. The melody solo is recorded in the left channel & the harmony (twin) is in the right for isolation purposes. It is also a 'beautiful listening album'.
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Winfield Winners Flatpicking  Champions: Live From Steve Kaufman's Flatpicking Kamp
Winfield Winners Flatpicking Champions: Live From Steve Kaufman's Flatpicking Kamp
Featuring 8 National Winfield Flatpicking Champions: Stephen Bennett (1987), Mark Cosgrove (1995), Roy Curry (1980 & 1991), Steve Kaufman (1978, 1984, & 1986), Robin Kessinger (1985), Cody Kilby (1998), Allen Shadd (1997), and Mike Whitehead (1994).
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Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 3
Best Of The Flatt and Scruggs TV Show Vol 3
The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show series contains the best musical performances from a long lost TV showtaped in the 1950s and 1960s. Never available before, this footage features Flatt and Scruggs in their prime with their group the Foggy Mountain Boys playing many of their most famous songs as well as many other bluegrass classicsFlatt and Scruggs are one of the most popular bluegrass bands of all time.
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A Dulcimer Christmas
A Dulcimer Christmas
This popular book brings the festive sound of the dulcimer to this joyous season. Creative, beautiful arrangements on 23 Christmas favorites, each with a notated melody line and tablature. Finger positions for each chord are included.
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Backup and Fills For Dobro (4 CD's)
Backup and Fills For Dobro (4 CD's)
This 4-hour course will give you the ability to play backup in any situation you encounter. You will gain a large vocabulary of backup material & an understanding of how to apply the licks from both theory discussion & example tunes. 4 CD'S. No Book. Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Banjo According to John Hartford - 2 DVD Set
Banjo According to John Hartford - 2 DVD Set
The late John Hartford was the extraordinary fiddle and banjo man who danced, played and sang to delighted audiences at festivals and concerts around the nation and the world. A thoughtful and knowledgeable musician, John imparts a treasure-trove of ideas and techniques, and banjo arrangements to some of his most requested songs, including the classic hit "Gentle on My Mind."
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Banjo According to John Hartford DVD 1
Banjo According to John Hartford DVD 1
The late John Hartford was the extraordinary fiddle and banjo man who danced, played and sang to delighted audiences at festivals and concerts around the nation and the world. A thoughtful and knowledgeable musician, John imparts a treasure-trove of ideas and techniques, and banjo arrangements to some of his most requested songs, including the classic hit "Gentle on My Mind."
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Banjo According to John Hartford DVD 2
Banjo According to John Hartford DVD 2
The late John Hartford was the extraordinary fiddle and banjo man who danced, played and sang to delighted audiences at festivals and concerts around the nation and the world. A thoughtful and knowledgeable musician, John imparts a treasure-trove of ideas and techniques, and banjo arrangements to some of his most requested songs, including the classic hit "Gentle on My Mind."
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Beginning Bluegrass Banjo Volume 1
Beginning Bluegrass Banjo Volume 1
Includes: introducing the 5-string banjo to the complete beginner, identification of all the parts, how to tune, basic chord formations, how to read banjo tablature, wearing your picks, 5 roll patterns, and he teaches you to play 4 tunes in complete detail. Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com !
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Beginning Bluegrass Banjo Volume 2
Beginning Bluegrass Banjo Volume 2
This Program takes up where 'Beginning Bluegrass Banjo Vol One' leaves off. Includes: study of tunes in the Scruggs, melodic, & single-string styles. Also explains use of the capo & How to play tunes in the G, D, & C positions. Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Beginning Bluegrass Country Fiddle
Beginning Bluegrass Country Fiddle
If any instrument needs a VISUAL LESSON, it's the FIDDLE! Although it's a lot of fun, the fiddle is more difficult in the beginning than any other instrument. This lesson is designed to start you off on the right foot, with hints that will make your progress FAST and PAINLESS! Download now from PlayBetterBluegrass.com!
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Beginning Country and Bluegrass Dobro
Beginning Country and Bluegrass Dobro
This video will get your skills started off right! Includes detailed study of: Bar technique - pick technique - chimes - trills, bending strings - hammer-ons - pull-offs, slants - rhythm chops - using the cassette recorder - slow songs, fast songs - and much more.
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