Bill Monroe is said to have defined bluegrass as “contemporary music arraigned for these instruments.”
I wonder if the same applies to oldies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE6-HisLxug
When Bluegrass Ain't About Country
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I liked the young people playing at 30 seconds and again at 1:35. Was that Bela Fleck? Saw our friend Gerald Jones playing banjo at the end.
I don’t know about that definition of bluegrass. I love traditional bluegrass, I struggle to like progressive bluegrass, but I don’t want to be critical of something someone else dearly loves.
It’s like the end of the move Bull Durham… “I don’t want to think about baseball. I don’t want to think about quantum physics, and I don’t wanna think about nothin’. I just want to be”.
This is one of my favorite arrangements:
All I can say is I wish more bands were brave enough to try stuff this cool!
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