Some bluegrass lovin' (with a helping of The Dead on the side)

[Finch]

Lately, I've really been getting into the whole bluegrass genre. I have a jazz oriented background (been listening and playing since I was about 12), but when I got out of highschool and started to shop around for bands to play in, I always ended up in jam bands. At first, it was just silly fun for me, wailing the (concert) E and A blues scales over electric guitars and a drunk singer, but over the years, I've really developed an appreciation for it.

My dad's always been a huge Dead fan and it seemed to fit in neatly to the package of what I think is good music. Then, my tastes started to delve even deeper into the whole bluegrass scene. I'm no country bumpkin by any means, but I just really love how authentic it sounds, how much the musicians really get into what they're playing/singing, and the (for lack of a better word) "love" they express through their music.

Any other lovers of jam bands and bluegrass out there? Thoughts? Comments? Criticisms?

^Some good stuff

 

[Finch]

We were in a field a mile from nowhere
The sun up high
In a field, the grass was flowin'
she looked me in they eye

"Hey", she said, "I've a fantasy"
"I'll paint you & you paint me"
"Ooh", I said, "what shall we be?"
she said, "I'll be a butterfly
You'll be a tree"

Green & blue & red & yellow
The colors dried
I looked at her, she looked at me
We laughed into the sky

"Ooh, she said, "look & see!
I am a butterfly, you are a tree"
"Yes", I said, "I agree
You are a butterfly
I am a tree"

Create a day up on a mountain
The world below
Time was easy, time was lazy
Movin' nice &

SLOW​

Bird flyin' off into the blue
Troubles far away
Sweet you were my lovely, lovely
On that perfect day

"Ooh", she said, "I feel so free
I am a butterfly, you are a tree"
"Yes", I said, "and a lucky tree
Of all of the forest
You land on me"

You can't tell me that's not beautiful