Friend Tim sent me this email about the Bluegrass post yesterday and it was too good to not pass on (with permission):
…I have to say that bluegrass is the only kind of “country” music that I “get”. Not that I choose to listen to it on my own, but when I have an opportunity to hear it played or see it performed I can generally tune into what’s going on for long enough to appreciate and enjoy the musicianship.
Anyway, the six guys in the video that you posted today are about as good as it gets. If you were to put together a master class in bluegrass, it would be virtually impossible to select anyone more highly skilled with their respective instruments. In short, if Elvis were to walk into a room in Nashville where these six guys were playing, announce that he was alive and coming back to perform for one night only, odds are that everyone in the room would tell him to shut up, sit down and listen to some real music.
Uh, thankyouverymuch