2010 CATALOG - Jedistar

Bluegrass performance.
Straight from the heart.
What does Bluegrass sound like? With the advent of Jamgrass, Neo-traditional and
Newgrass, one thing’s for sure… ol’ Bill Monroe would sure be surprised to hear what is
being called Bluegrass these days.
As much as we love traditional music, the new musical influences and progressive styles
have made the bluegrass genre more exciting than ever. Mainstream country artists are
embracing the style, recording bluegrass albums and hitting the major festivals to reach
a broader audience. Today’s bluegrass stars have crossed over as well, contributing to a
growing appreciation of this traditional music throughout the world.
Take Rickie Simpkins here for instance. His virtuosity with the fiddle and mandolin has
helped him make quite a name for himself with the classic bluegrass of his native Virginia.
But his creative flexibility has him playing with jazz-influenced Tony Rice and the Unit, the
gospel-tinged Isaacs, and even accompanying the legendary Emmylou Harris.
No matter how you like your bluegrass, one thing will always be authentic – the
unmistakable sound when a fiddle gets together with some flat-picked guitar, mandolin,
resonator, banjo and an upright bass. Acoustic heaven.
So we’re particularly proud that we’ve been able to develop a new generation of pickups
that preserves your instrument’s natural voice – like our new Nashville Series Resophonic
pickup. Embraced by professionals who want the purest amplification for this
unique and throaty instrument, it’s quickly become even more popular
than we could have imagined.