alt.music.bluegrass
Bluegrass music: players, records and festivals.
Pickers and listeners on Monroe, Stanley, Flatt & Scruggs and every generation since — with instrument setup threads (banjo bridges, mandolin tone) and festival reports from the circuit.
The group’s discography and lyric-correction threads served as a working reference before dedicated databases existed.
Reading alt.music.bluegrass today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — alt.music.bluegrass (coverage varies by group and era).
- Open in a newsreader:
news:alt.music.bluegrass— the original site offered exactly this link, and it still works if your system has a newsreader registered for thenews:scheme. - Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.