I shared this privately before, but I just got the okay to share it in public. The Bluegrass Archive is online with a website and everything. This is a MASSIVE trove of legal live #bluegrass recordings from earliest days right up to now, which you can download and listen to for free. It is one of the greatest achievements of the fan-driven #music archiving community I've ever seen. I contributed a small number of filesets out of the thousands here. #music
@mrcompletely Can confirm. ⬆️
What he doesn't say is a lot of the recordings have superb sound quality. Downloaded a Billy Strings set last night and it sounded wonderful on the big system. Not just old stuff, that Strings set was from last month.
@timbray most are probably at least pretty good. Some of the older and really rare things sound just okay but are posted bc there's no alternative source. But yes a lot of it sounds superb
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Is there a "convert the banjo part to tab" button yet? Especially for two and three finger parts from the 1929's? I'd like to have that tab..... ;(
@mrcompletely I wonder how much of this originally came from #BluegrassBox (a site I operated until certain so and so's forced us to pull the plug). I see some stuff on this list that caused the so and so's to speak with us back when. Wishing them the best!
@blhue bluegrass box was a great resource and an inspiration. If you'd like to point out the potentially problematic names I can at least pass that info along though as I've mentioned I am not an admin or anything for this site. Thanks for your work on BGB!
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What is the process to submit a recording?
I made a Jon Stickley Trio recording from last year that is pretty good quality. They gave me permission to share it.
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Yes, I was able to look at some of the data associated with the other available shows.I don't have that level of detail.
I might take the time to break out the individual tracks and breaks, but my personal "way" is 'the show' not 'the tracks'.
@kikebenlloch absolutely. For now you can puzzle it out since bluegrass started in the 1940s and we haven't come back around to those digits yet. But it won't be long! I def agree and would have used YYYY-MM-DD for natural numerical sorting reasons and readability
@mrcompletely This is absolutely incredible. A treasure trove. Thank you so much for sharing, it's going to make my year as I start listening through the catalog.
@Jesseabe some volunteers from a private legal live music torrent tracker. I suppose if they wanted their names public they'd be on there, but I only know their login handles anyway
@Jesseabe well, I'm part of the community that supports the effort and I do know a good bit about it, so I'm glad to discuss or answer questions that I can. But I'm also working today and got quite a few replies to this post so it might not be a fast convo on my end 😁
@penguin42 all of the most famous names in bluegrass are on it. Live recording and the free trading of those recordings has been a part of the genre since the 1950s. As long as there is no capitalism happening it's all totally above board. This is a huge part of bluegrass culture.
@NatureMC it depends on your OS, and it's easier on windows/android than Mac (Linux people will figure it out themselves). But regardless, if you look up free FLAC player apps you should find some options. Once you have a player app you just download the files, put them in a music folder on your device and the app should open and play them
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