I've still got my copy of Flatt and Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Boys - Live in Japan. Originally recorded in the late 60's/early 70's. Such a long history of Bluegrass in Japan.
I'll admit I'm a damn Yankee but love some good bluegrass. And she's good at picking which IMO is key. If they were at a local bar, I'd stay until I get kicked out, no lie.
Bluegrass is Appalachian, not southern. The banjo’s from Africa, blues/jazz is Afro-American, and the rest is Scottish/Irish. I only point it out cuz while it’s true mountain folk were largely ambivalent about the Civil War, most went for the Union when pressed.
Love it! When I was working in Tokyo I went to a large underground (read basement) Irish bar with live music. The band was all Japanese, playing flute, fiddle, Irish drum and accordion. They had chops too. Awesome.
Country and bluegrass is weirdly popular in Asian countries. I met my first serious girlfriend this way. Her father brought the family over from Japan for the Galax Old Time Fiddler’s Convention and decided to stay here and work for a while. We dated for 3 years until he decided to go back and I was too poor to follow.
Oh, but all genres went to Asia and are doing well. Bluegrass, Jazz, Fusion, Funk, Metal, Punk, you name it. And they recovered stronger and better than ever. Name your genre, I'll give you a band.
This reminds me of the time I met a couple of Japanese guys on the campgrounds at a blues festival in Mississippi in the early 2000s. Neither of them spoke a word of English, but they had learned a bunch of old classic songs from records by T-Bone Walker, Howlin' Wolf, Blind Boy Fuller, etc. We got together and played into the wee hours every night of the 3 or 4 days of the festival, just jamming and passing bottles around, language barrier be damned.
I think it was either the Chunky or the MS Delta blues and heritage festival. I was going to so many festivals back then it's hard to keep all the memories straight.
Somewhat true, not actually true. It gets filtered by ideological culture, for example western composers for a long time didn’t respect or understand the many modes or quarter-tone (notes less than a semitone apart, the smallest structural interval in Western European music) nature of middle eastern music.
Garwoodxx
Sounds great.
TerribleAwful
giraffytaffy
I love this!!
whythefucknot215
I’m telling my kids they invented bluegrass 🤣
Zalagzny
I can't be the only one who couldn't figure out which language they were using for far too long.
Traquaire
I still don't know.
bhobby1212
How about some: Maroi Mariachi?
/gallery/xPdlMbS
imgonnaralph
Neat
pandajack
Love how singing can so often remove the accent. Ever heard Adele speak?
TsubakiTragic
Anime movie "Whisper of the Heart" featured the song "Country Roads" in Japanese... was great
bingoboyo
Japan holds the 3rd longest running bluegrass festival in the world.
Evenmoreuselessname
I've still got my copy of Flatt and Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Boys - Live in Japan. Originally recorded in the late 60's/early 70's. Such a long history of Bluegrass in Japan.
flordelasantillas
Japan loves a diversity of music from rock, jazz, bluegrass to country.
TsubakiTragic
Music isn't a nationality, it's a feeling.
OnceBotheredTwiceShy
Sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMR_Riwa3SY&list=RDvMR_Riwa3SY&start_radio=1
LenWeirdracin
clamjuicecoctail
First glance,
He really can time travel
AwwGeeRick
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dThlcjRlcHpycGg4ajl2N3M2NXdxZ292cGplejdlemxremU0b3VncyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/x2z9nswqAfpp6/200w.webp
Mxlespxles
YATTA!
clamjuicecoctail
HumanFromPlanetEarth
but are they on the 'shine?
threepotatoesinatrenchcoat
What's their name?
justthesauce
This is Redbull, playing Fox on the Run. He's the video without the close crop and time crop: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PC0IVknLW7M
justthesauce
This is Redbull, playing Fox on the Run. He's the video without the close crop and time crop: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PC0IVknLW7M
oldfartmcgee
Shout out to takes bluegrass channel on YT
BrickaBrackaFireCracker
I don't think any ethnicity is capable of making bluegrass sound good.
melangemaster42
@DocClawhammer
freakdiablo
I'll admit I'm a damn Yankee but love some good bluegrass. And she's good at picking which IMO is key. If they were at a local bar, I'd stay until I get kicked out, no lie.
emberfish
Bluegrass is Appalachian, not southern. The banjo’s from Africa, blues/jazz is Afro-American, and the rest is Scottish/Irish. I only point it out cuz while it’s true mountain folk were largely ambivalent about the Civil War, most went for the Union when pressed.
TheFastpaws
All that matters is they are having a good time.
slatsisanoldie
Love it! When I was working in Tokyo I went to a large underground (read basement) Irish bar with live music. The band was all Japanese, playing flute, fiddle, Irish drum and accordion. They had chops too. Awesome.
ActionJohnnie
NeverShaveYourDuck
That's cultural appropriashun! Everybody down at my local Kentucky Karaoke aggrees.
darthbiscuit
Country and bluegrass is weirdly popular in Asian countries. I met my first serious girlfriend this way. Her father brought the family over from Japan for the Galax Old Time Fiddler’s Convention and decided to stay here and work for a while. We dated for 3 years until he decided to go back and I was too poor to follow.
nothingtolurkhere
There's a Japanese salsa band, too. I'd rather see that.
Frencheeseater
Thanks, it's neat ! i also like a lot Borat's Woo-Han flu song :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QORVzSGriaY
Frencheeseater
full footage :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DGvqkyAyP4&list=RD0DGvqkyAyP4&start_radio=1
Dingledonglejingle
Oh, but all genres went to Asia and are doing well.
Bluegrass, Jazz, Fusion, Funk, Metal, Punk, you name it. And they recovered stronger and better than ever.
Name your genre, I'll give you a band.
Theslipofashipcansinkalip
Progressive Rock.
DongleDingler
North Korean ska
Dingledonglejingle
Hats off, that's a difficult one...
DongleDingler
It takes a dongle dingler to jingle a dingle dongle jingeler
DongleDingler
*jingler
SirThumbPick
This reminds me of the time I met a couple of Japanese guys on the campgrounds at a blues festival in Mississippi in the early 2000s. Neither of them spoke a word of English, but they had learned a bunch of old classic songs from records by T-Bone Walker, Howlin' Wolf, Blind Boy Fuller, etc. We got together and played into the wee hours every night of the 3 or 4 days of the festival, just jamming and passing bottles around, language barrier be damned.
forcefulpuspus
Hell yeah brother!
Canigetbannedagain2
🤘🪕🤘
spinbutton3
Art, especially music, crosses cultural boundaries
DarkSock
Was it the chunky blues festival?
SirThumbPick
I think it was either the Chunky or the MS Delta blues and heritage festival. I was going to so many festivals back then it's hard to keep all the memories straight.
Tezerah1
Music is a universal language
DontBeMadBRad
“Music is the language of us all”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReW9n5c_Abg&list=RDReW9n5c_Abg&start_radio=1&pp=ygUfTXVzaWMgaXMgdGhlIGxhbmd1YWdlIG9mIHVzIGFsbKAHAQ%3D%3D
brownribbon
Unless you’re Jeff Bezos
FrolickingFrolicking
Somewhat true, not actually true. It gets filtered by ideological culture, for example western composers for a long time didn’t respect or understand the many modes or quarter-tone (notes less than a semitone apart, the smallest structural interval in Western European music) nature of middle eastern music.
https://youtu.be/LR511iAedYU
WillemHellfire
I'll check this out later. Thank you 🙏😊
LazerSpacePirate
The universal language if you're not a music snob*
Tezerah1
Thank you