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Anyone else like folk music and bluegrass? I learned to like this kind of music when I lived in Tallahassee, Florida, where there were several folk and bluegrass festivals held. They were a lot of fun.

When I lived in NJ, I used to listen to a really good folk music program called "Music you can't hear on the radio." I wonder if that show is still around. It was on the Princeton University radio station (WPRB, I think).

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I LOVE Bluegrass music, MsMary! 8)
One of my favorite bands is the Dry Branch Fire Squad. :)
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Cool, Duchess. I bet you don't think "Dueling Banjos" is from the movie "Deliverance"! :P

That always drove me nuts. That song is waaay older than the movie, but after the movie everyone always thought it was from "Deliverance." :roll:

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...and "Man of Constant Sorrows" isn't from o' Brother Where at Thou...? :D

(damm MsMary! Flashback city! I grew up near Princeton and listened 2 that program ALL the time! Yes WPRB!!!)

I played in a bluegrass band 4 a year, called The Clear Ditch Ramblers, part of our playlist included:
Rockytop
Orange Blossom Special
Tennessee Stud
Foggy Mountian Breakdown
and, of course, Scruggs & Flatt's "Theme from Beverly Hillbillies"

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I like Rockytop. *stomps feet in time* 8)
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We have a nice little Bluegrass/fiddlers festival right here in the little town where I live. This might be the year when I sneak out to attend! :wink:
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danlo, I forgot you used to live in NJ. I loved "Music you can't hear on the radio." I listened to it many a Sunday night.

What'd you play in the bluegrass band?

And Rockytop is a good one.

(Wow, never thought I'd find so many bluegrass fans here. :D)

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I played harmonica, 2nd mandolin and sang...
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Very cool, danlo. :)

Believe it or not, I had a college chemistry professor who played the mandolin in a bluegrass band. :D

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Another Bluegrass fan here - got turned onto it thru Old & In the Way
Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, Vasser Clemens, David Grisman and the guitar player whose name escapes me...

Pig in a pen...

Ricky Skaggs is absolutely nails on mandolin...

Bill Monroe is really the "father" of bluegrass - "Blue Moon of Kentucky, keep on shinin'"

Bluegrass is really the only form of country music I like...
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I play guitar & mandolin too, Danlo :bounce03:
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Earthblood wrote:Bluegrass is really the only form of country music I like...
Me, too, Earthy. I'm really not a fan of other country music.

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Peter Rowan was his name Earthy! I love Jerry Garcia's banjo style (actually I dig Neil's banjo 2...) banjo is an incredibly tuff instrament 2 play, I have the UTMOST respect 4 pickers. Our banjo player, Tom, practiced 5 hours a day and sometimes till his fingers bled...
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I like folk music, but bluegrass I have to take in moderation or not at all. I admire the dexterity of its players, though.
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While I love Bluegrass, I do not particularly care for other sorts of country music, either. :-x
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We seem to have a consensus here. ;)

Like bluegrass, don't care for country. :P

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Well, Bluegrass and what comes out of Nashville these days are as different as night and day. :wink:
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I think some1 else already said this on the Watch, but I'll say it again: I like the bumpersticker that says, "Prevent inbreeding, ban Country Music"!
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:LOLS:
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bump just 4 YK! 8)
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