Category Archives: Back Porch Bluegrass

Bluegrass music continues to provide us with a wide variety of musical influences and styles, from slow country ballads, story songs, bouncy instrumentals to hard-driving pieces about a wide variety o...

Created by Free FM, Hamilton, New Zealand

Being as this is the first show for 2026, I've started with a delightful song about the 'First Day of the Year' from Joe Newberry, after some rather contemporary picking from 1972 from the HCBB. That'...

This week's show has a rather diverse collection of early 'classic' bluegrass, jazzy numbers, Christmas carols, brand new NZ bluegrass, archival NZ bluegrass and stories about NZ baches. Always someth...

Repeat from 24-12-2019.

Many of the selections in this show come from 'compilation' albums, featuring tracks from performers that I don't have in my general collection. As always, there's some great picking and singing, from...

Quite a few of the selections on this show have an 'old-timey' feel to them, making it all sound very relaxed. Mark Johnson & Emory Lester get us started after a burst of 'Sunburst', then Nothing Fanc...

Selections from banjo man Butch Robins, the Bluegrass Album Band, Bobby Hicks, and the Foggy Hogtown Boys. Bill Monroe, Doc Watson feature with 'live' recordings, and Caroline Jones does a Christmas s...

A rather 'odd' mix of early bluegrass, old country songs, Western Swing and dynamic fiddle tunes. It must be bluegrass!

Lots of 'classic' bluegrass, from the likes of Red Allen & Frank Wakefield, the Johnson Mountain Boys, and the Friendly City Playboys. The Dillards play a couple of tunes, as do Joe Mullins and the Ra...