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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
...The days of bluegrass being 5 guys in pinched cowboy hats is gone forever. ... Yup, now is 4 guys in pinched hats and a gal in a purty dress. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I've been listening to lots of bluegrass lately. Alecia Nugent is really good, but I think she'd be new grass. Bluegrass junction is the first preset on my XFM station.
Are Ovations louder than Martins? Depends on who is playing. Often times the loudest player at a session is the biggest a$$hole at the session. The purpose is to make music right? not steamroll everyboidy else.
Now how many bluegrass guys does it take to change a light bulb?
It takes all 5 (guitar, fiddle, mando, bass, and banjer). One to change it and the others to complain about it being electric.
I tell that to be funny but also to point out that the hard core bluegrassers can be some of the most inflexable opinionated people out there. Not only about instruments (all the tupperware remarks) but about what is true bleugrass and what isn't, and if it isn't they dump on it pretty quickly and completely. In all my years in the biz they are the number 1 snobs, closely followed by the classical guys. What really bothers me about this is that they, in their search for purity, are shooting themselves in the feet. Music needs to evolve over time, it's part of the growth process, and by doing so it continues to bring in new fans which keeps the cycle going. Stop the cycle and you become history. |
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