I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.
It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don't practice, the man next door who is practicing will beat you.
Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.
The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.
When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.
I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.
Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.
I wouldn't call myself a woman in bluegrass. I haven't really been a part of the world for a while. It's just been a big influence on who I am today.
I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.
I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.
That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.
My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record. . . I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.
My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
I realized a lot of my friends were going to nightclubs and listening to house music. I was hanging out with them and going to clubs as well but I didn't really understand that kind of music. I was listening to country music and was heavily into Hank Williams, bluegrass, and Bob Dylan. So I just decided I really needed to understand what this music I was hearing in the clubs was all about.
It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized. We don't solo. Well sometimes we do, but it's different it has more to do with rock-and-roll than bluegrass does.
I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.
I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.
