![]() Here is me playing one this Spring with Aina Jo Barnwell, Laura Oshaw, and Tony Watt at the 40 year old Armuchee Bluegrass Festival. Traditional music, acoustic science and American vintage string instruments I also re-posted a version of that post in the blog It wandered off topic a bit the near the end. I talked about this recently in this thread. I have no first-hand experience with those, however. It's possible that one of the early (mid 1960's) solid rosewood Gibson Heritage models could be a better bluegrass guitar. The Blue Ridge has a laminated rosewood body, and by 1972 it had the double-X braced top that tended to choke top vibration a bit, so it probably wouldn't mix to well with most Martin Dreads. Most Gibsons just aren't the "boomers" you need to have in traditional bluegrass, where your guitar may have to fight its way to the surface through the fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and other guitars. Sean Watkins plays (usually) a vintage J-45 in the progressive bluegrass (newgrass) group Nickel Creek, but that's a somewhat different setting and a different kettle of fish. Tpbiii here has written extensively about the vintage AJ, which seems to be the Gibson best suited to compete in the average bluegrass jam. ![]() Most of Gibsons will probably sound pretty quiet compared to the average D-18 or D-28 with medium strings thrashed flat-out with a flatpick. ![]()
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