Posted on 03/24/2008 8:11:07 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
One thing that has never been successfully outsourced is Bluegrass music. Which is kind of ironic because it has a tradition of fearlessly covering any and every other style with good old all American virtuosity.
She's a very special girrrrrrl...
Very good!!
Have been fascinated to conclude, over the years, that SF is a bluegrass town and that Jefferson Airplane/Starship and the Grateful Dead are at their roots bluegrass bands.
My first guitar lessons were bluegrass. One taste of it and it stays in there forever.
Pretty much agreed. I’m in full agreement except for the last statement...I started out on bluegrass but I can’t say it does much for me any more. But I think you make a good point. With the exception of a scant few Barney Kessel & Tal Farlow fans, anyone playing guitar in 1960-1963 pre-beatles was playing folk music, and it was pretty popular.
I think almost all early rock that was not R&B oriented grew out of folk & bluegrass which were of course different, but somehow linked by being “concurrent”. That was what you played back in the fifties & early sixties. If you think about it, even surf music is kind of an electric-guitar bluegrass variant....but with drums, and electric guitar for banjo. Once the edginess of audible drums was added to folk (still no drums in bluegrass) then early “white” rock was on its way.
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