It All Started With The Movie "O' Brother"...

Uncle Earl. It's an all female bluegrass band, I saw their banjo player last week, Abigail Washburn- she plays some great clawhammer.

 

String Duster, waybacks, Josh Pinkham, Blueground undergrass, Dhuks, Railroad earth, i am leaveing out the obvoius & already listed.

 

other posters covered most of the ones i would have said, but heres a few not mentioned, but worth checking out:
Ralph Stanley
Run of the mill string band
Big daddy bluegrass
Horse flies
acoustic syndicate
new monsoon
ricky skaggs (his new material)
just to name a few

 

dawg dennison, tony rice,. ah skrew it just get the pizza tapes, it gots jerry garcia, dawg dennion and rice, and the first song is man of constant sorrow, and jerry does it so much better then that movie, and thats called the pizza tapes. also get the video grateful dawg, jerry n dawg laying it out nice in good

 

The pizza tapes are great, but not really bluegrass. If you want Jerry and dawg doing bluegrass then check out "old and in the way"

 

First,kudos to Wonder Girl for mentioning Hazel Dickens(truly a diamond in the rough!)..if you like old time music also try any of the releases featuring Hazel with Mike Seeger and Alice Gerrard(sp?)...try any of the Skaggs/Tony Rice releases....The Red Clay Ramblers are one of my favorites(the original group releases)....The Lilly Brothers from Beckley WV......anything you can find by the Blue Sky Boys.....Reno and Smiley.....the New Lost City Ramblers......and that should get yer feet good'n'wet in old time music for a while....enjoy!!! Almost forgot--anything by Doc Watson is refreshing! Also check Joel Mabis.