I want to make something perfectly clear: Bluegrass music is NOT

[Sequoia]

country music.

Some guy at work came by and heard me listening to a bluegrass station on SHOUT and told me that was the music they play in Texas. I told him no, it was from the Carolinas.

They voted for Bush

I don't care. Bluegrass was around long before they were. You need to get out of this hick county and see the rest of the country.

You're a closet republican.

Just shove it, will you. Good lord.

He should've been around this morning when I was listening to Bach. I listen to all kinds of music expect christian rock. Pretty soon I might switch to KROQ or some alternative 80's. But for now I'm gonna listen to this just to get his goat.

Some people are so clueless.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Just out of curiosity...

What does not knowing the difference between country and bluegrass have to do with politics?

[Sequoia]

2. Search me.

He even thinks if you eat peanuts you're a republican. He likes to yell at people over the intercom without bothering to call first. I don't think the guy's been out of the county, much less any other part of the world or USA.

[WCGreen]

3. If anything....

Bluegrass would be folk music...

I always hanker toward BG and Folk myself...

[Derailer]

4. That was a disjointed read but I think I get it now

[oneighty]

5. One of Mozart's compositions

comes very close to Blue Grass. IMHO.

From what I understand Blue Grass pretty much derived from Scottish settlers in the Carolinas.

I knew some shrimper-men from coastal NC who were well into the Clogging/Scottish jigs/ Spoon playing. It was fun watching them in the evenings at our bar room/pool hall.

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[Sequoia]

6. You'd think he might know something

after all he's got a Scottish last name. And I am from the Blue Ridge mountians and my dad could sure pluck a mean banjo and my mom played the piano.

[oneighty]

8. Mozart?

Scottish last name?

I have been up that way, Blue Ridge. Luray Caverns-Skyway Drive-Gold Hill, North Carolina, Look Out Mountain, Tenn.

Beautiful country.

Panned for gold at Gold Hill.

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[Redstone]

12. Read my post about that whole musical style having its genesis in the

court music of Louis Quatorze.

The pieces will fall into place.

Redstone

[oneighty]

13. Yes

Thanks.

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[Lex]

7. Similarly I had to tell a 19 yr old that funk is not the same as disco.

I don't think he was convinced. :eyes:

[johnnie]

9. Well... it is a form of country music

It sprung from country music but it concentrated more on the swapping of instruments for the melodies.

[Redstone]

11. Let me clarify: bluegrass "sprung from" what was called String Band music

in the 1920s; as you said, the difference is that in String Band music, everybody plays lead all the time, and with bluegrass, they swap leads.

Redstone

[Redstone]

10. Astonishing where you find bluegrass. I once interviewed a guy

who wanted the fiddle-playing job in our bluegrass / Irish band, and he was from ITALY! Turns out that the music in certain areas of northerf Italy is an awful lot like bluegrass / Scots / Irish music (at least instrumentally), and if you research further you can find the roots of a lot of it in the court music of Louis the 14th...

Redstone