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Nic Neufeld
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I'm a huge fan of these guys. Live in the studio (or house) funky covers of all kinds of pop/rock/etc tunes, with rotating guest vocalists (and some great session musicians):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-2JUs ... 0efehwGkUw

Amazing musicianship all round. Here's one with a steel guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP3nskD7ebU

One of my faves, with Sam Wilkes who is always fun to watch play bass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcNuPheBQgU

Anyway, the especially fun thing I discovered...join their mid-tier Patreon level, and not only do you get to download their entire catalog of tunes (several hundred...great listening material as it satisfies my wife's fondness for pop tunes, but in a style that I dig), but you also get to download instrumental mixes or individual stem tracks for all of their tunes. So as a bassist, I'm having a real fun time making bass-less versions I can jam along with. And if you were an aspiring vocalist this would be an exceptional way to put together an impressive demo track or two, singing along with a really solid band doing fun and inventive arrangements of recognizable tunes.

This is not an ad, I just thought others might dig this as much as I am, or more, if you are recording minded and like this style of music...I've gotten a lot of fun out of my ten bucks so far.
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Andrew Frost
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Post by Andrew Frost »

These guys are doing some interesting stuff. I love Rich Hinman's steel playing. He's got a very classic approach but I think he's doing a lot to keep the steel guitar pointed forward.
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Brooks Montgomery
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Post by Brooks Montgomery »

Cool stuff, thanks for sharing!
A banjo, like a pet monkey, seems like a good idea at first.
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