Pickin' and grinnin' at a bluegrass jam session
Thursday, July 10, 2008
One of the things I love most about bluegrass (admittedly about other types of music like jazz or blues, too) is that in almost every song, each instrument, each player, gets a time in the limelight. A chance to take the melody and make it their own, spinning and twisting the notes and the rhythm until the song has a different accent.
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