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Purty entertainin', even without no pictures, November 13, 2004
University of Illinois Press
The Bluegrass ReaderA few years ago, a certain tenacious fan (yours truly), trying to get an interview with Mitch Jayne of The Dillards, managed to irritate him to the point that he stormed, "Bluegrass people are not readers!" This comprehensive anthology, compiled from a surprising variety of sources by journalist Thomas Goldsmith (the International Bluegrass Music Association's 2004 Print Media Personality of the Year), would seem to prove otherwise. Collecting "particularly strong, influential, and representative writing about bluegrass" from books, magazines and liner notes, "The Bluegrass Reader," like Neil V. Rosenberg's definitive "Bluegrass - A History," is a book with limitless appeal for the growing legion of hard-core bluegrass aficionados who revel in dissecting and debating every facet of the music, no matter how trivial. (For those eggheads, the totally frivolous article "Is There a Link between Bluegrass Musicianship and Sexuality?" is recommended.) There is scholarly fodder aplenty, but...
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| I`ve never much enjoyed reading about music; far more fun to play or listen to it. Lately, though, I`ve become addicted to Amazon`s "cheap reads" covering a variety of subjects and after checking out a few pages of this one on line, ordered it and can highly recommend the book for anyone interested in bluegrass or old time string band music.Bluegrass slammed me in the back of the head from out of nowhere back in the early 1950s when I happened across Don Reno`s "Dixie Breakdown" courtesy of Ray Davis` broadcast on WBMD AM from Johnnie`s Used Car Lot in Baltimore. I hadn`t a clue what the instrument was, called Ray who gave me a brief education about the 5-string banjo. That same day I rented a banjo for $2.00 monthly "applicable to purchase price" from Ted Martini`s amazing music store on Center Street in Baltimore. (My two criticisms of the book are, by the way, are that there is no mention of Ray Davis, who has probably done more for the music than anyone else in the... | 8 | ||
| A few years ago, a certain tenacious fan (yours truly), trying to get an interview with Mitch Jayne of The Dillards, managed to irritate him to the point that he stormed, "Bluegrass people are not readers!" This comprehensive anthology, compiled from a surprising variety of sources by journalist Thomas Goldsmith (the International Bluegrass Music Association's 2004 Print Media Personality of the Year), would seem to prove otherwise. Collecting "particularly strong, influential, and representative writing about bluegrass" from books, magazines and liner notes, "The Bluegrass Reader," like Neil V. Rosenberg's definitive "Bluegrass - A History," is a book with limitless appeal for the growing legion of hard-core bluegrass aficionados who revel in dissecting and debating every facet of the music, no matter how trivial. (For those eggheads, the totally frivolous article "Is There a Link between Bluegrass Musicianship and Sexuality?" is recommended.) There is scholarly fodder aplenty, but... | 9 | ||
