Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown

This is a performance from The Late Show with David Letterman featuring Earl Scruggs and friends performing the classic 5-string banjo piece "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" with a bunch of guest artists joining in.
The song is part of the musical genre called bluegrass which is a very fast paced kind of music, usually with a simple three chord structure throughout which people then jam on and do solos on top on. The piece was written by Earl Scruggs, and recorded by Flatt & Scruggs in 1949. It is considered one of the hardest pieces for 5-string banjos, and only very skilled players can play it at it's intended speed.
The line-up on stage is impressive, it includes; Paul Shaffer on piano, Steve Martin on banjo and Albert Lee on electric guitar, to name a few, it's a long list of performers, and I probably only know the name of half of them, I know shame on me.
Any ways, it's a great up tempo performance of a good song, and bluegrass is related to country which is related to blues, so I can justify posting this here.

Enjoy ; )

Albert Lee - Tear It Up

This is a song performed by British guitarist Albert Lee, the clip is from 2007, and he plays the up beat song "Tear It Up". It's kind of a rock 'n' roll song, but with a lot of bluegrass roots influencing it. There's also a violin and a double bass. The back up band is the Australian "Wheelers and Dealers".
Albert is most known in the field of hybrid picking which means using the fingers and the guitar pick at the same time, to do runs that you would not otherwise be able to do. He was one of the first to use and develop this technique, and is regarded as one of the best at this technique.
He has been included with many different acts, in many different genres, including; Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Earl Scruggs, Joe Cocker, Dolly Parton and even Spın̈al Tap, hell yeah!! A long list, and in many different genres, everything from country, blues, rock 'n' roll and bluegrass, truly a versatile player.
This is a great performance of a great song, and they sure do "tear it up".

Enjoy ; )