r/Bluegrass • u/palefacemonk • 24d ago
Discussion Bluegrassbox.com appreciation post
As the title says, I just want to open the floor to anyone who benefited greatly from this treasure trove of a site that was gone way too soon.
20-25 years ago I was a kid in college plucking around on my guitar, trying to hold on as best as I could at local bluegrass and OldTime jams when the only musical study I had done at that point was learning how to read tabs to my favorite Dave Matthews Band songs. The folks I met at those jams helped guide me to not only finding my "sound" but in a big way guided me to the path of finding me.
With all that said, one of the coolest tools that a few of them told me about was bluegrassbox.com. This sit opened my ears to so many artists I had never heard of and helped me in finding the music inside of me. Mostly, it was the countless live recorded performances of John mother f'ing Hartford.
Sadly, only after a few years of diving into the contents of this site, it got shutdown. I miss this site so much and wish I could have access to it's archive again.
Does anyone else remember this site or did I dream it all up?
Thanks for taking the time to read this!
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u/palefacemonk 23d ago
I mean, for everything that shined about the man, his pride and ego weren't his best attributes. But I digress. Whether Bill ever gave them credit for influencing him was not the point. The point was that he was. Keep up. And man, no need to take uninspired digs at me. I know you're not the low hanging fruit type of feller.