Speaking of genres I've never been clear on, here are a couple of videos on the history of these three styles. I did not realize how new bluegrass and Western swing are.
I like them all.
Music below the fold.
Some old-time music, now that I know what that is. You can tell it's dance music rather than sit-in-the-audience music.
Bluegrass
Western swing
Here's some fun people had with these styles:
Douglas, Barenberg, & Meyer
The Goat Rodeo Sessions with Yo Yo Ma, Duncan, Meyer, and Thile
Asleep at the Wheel
2 comments:
I don't know who this Brit is who's narrating the first video, but he misses a significant hinge point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Rodgers
"...the Hillbilly is a North Carolina or Tennessee and adjacent mountaineer type of illiterate white... with the intelligence of morons."
Obviously that opinion hasn't changed in a hundred years. Some of us can read, though, in spite of our press.
Gringo will be by to comment on Western Swing. He is the expert. Bob Wills is, we should note, still the king.
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