How many bluegrass musicians does it take to change a lightbulb?
5. One to do it and 4 to sit and argue whether Bill Monroe would have done it that way.


The Seldom Scene, creators of contemporary bluegrass, used a drummer on their records back in the 1980's.
While you'd certainly never see a drummer in the BlueGrass Boys, they do exist in bluegrass
The Seldom Scene also had a pedal steel on occasion. Sometimes Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris sang in that band. But those were special nights decades ago.

Many of the NewGrass players (Grisman,Rice, etc) typically do NOT have a drummer in their band.
Admittedly Jerry Douglas Band and BF & FLecktones have drummers, but I'm not sure either of those is really NewGrass.
There you go.

OBS is a pretty straight ahead bluegrass tune. You should find something in BIAB.

As far as newgrass styles in BIAB, I have been pretty disappointed.
I've been working on a few newgrass tunes (EMD, Devlin, Manzanita) without any real success with BIAB styles.
I have found nothing in the way of midi files for these tunes either.

I have created a few backing tracks for some Flecktones Songs (Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, Sinister Minister, Big Country).

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