Bluegrass Music
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Bluegrass is a style of country and western music that developed
during the 1940s, based on traditional ballads, fiddle tunes, and gospel
hymnody of the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States. It
evolved from the backwooks, blue-collar music of the South, particularly
Appalachia. Blu ....
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included Earl Scruggs, who popularized the characteristic three-fingered
banjo picking style, guitarist Lester Flatt, and fiddler Chubby Wise.
The Scottish-Irish music of southern Appalachia was a powerful form
of entertainment as folks gathered in the evenings to dance and socialize.
It was what people back then loved. The people back then probably looked
at bluegrass music in the same manner as I look at alternative music today.
It was just a style of music that they could relat ....
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