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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
How Blue is Your Grass?
It may be only coincidence that I started listening to the
Bluegrass channel on
Sirius Satellite Radio (after they cancelled Folktown, one of my favorite stations) about the same time I bought a mandolin, or it may be kismet. Either way, having a mando got me in the mood to hear more mando playing, and what better place than bluegrass music? Also, exploring mandolin web sites (some conveniently listed in the sidebar on the left) helped me to learn who are the respected performers of both mandolins and bluegrass music. It's been a great opportunity to explore some terrific music in a genre I hadn't previously followed.
If you're following the same path as I, you should know that the big kahuna of bluegrass mandolin music is the father of bluegrass,
Bill Monroe. There are plenty of
web sites out there that can tell you more about him than I can. It prompted me to hop onto
Rhapsody (forgive my anti-Apple bias) and download a copy of his
Anthology album. Great stuff. I think I'm starting to like bluegrass.
Posted by Renaldo ::
2:55 PM ::
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