The Oracle of Bluegrass Bacon

The Oracle of Bluegrass Bacon is an upcoming tool in arthel that can find connections between musicians who appear in common shows or records and find the number of "jumps" required to connect them.

For example, one route to connect Frank Carter Rische to Tony Rice is:

• Frank Carter Rische played with Vickie Vaughn at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge
• Vickie Vaughn played a cover of Fox on the Run with Brenna MacMillan
• Brenna Macmillan and Jake Stargel appear on Dear Life
• Jake Stargel played with Tony Rice and Mountain Heart at Red and White Bluegrass Festival 2011.

In this case, we'd say that Rische has a "Tony Rice Number" of 4, indicating the four links in the connection between them.

Show and Record Priority

Shows and Records which are released with a Creative Commons-compatible license, or which are released directly into the Public Domain will appear above those that are only released with an unfriendly license.

Among links which are unavailable under an unfriendly license, those that are released in a DRM-free file format will be listed above those that are only released in an impaired format.

Data Sources

The Oracle will accept signed data sources directly from musicians (such as the standard YAML setlists in arthel), and may also use APIs provided by resources such as open source Grateful Dead setlist bots, the Live Music Archive of archive.org, and structured data from PickiPedia which has been verified by known community members.

Links

• The Pull Request into arthel, by Justin Holmes, introducing The Oracle of Bluegrass Bacon