A Little Taste of Bluegrass

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1. With his Blue Grass Boys, this man crystalized the sound that is called bluegrass. Who is the 'father' of the bluegrass sound? Pee Wee Lambert Doc Watson Bill Monroe Mac Wiseman

2. The Stanely Brothers (Carter and Ralph) not only developed their own unique style but also greatly influenced the bluegrass sound. What was the name of their group? The Clinch Mountain Boys The Tennessee Cutups The Virginia Boys The Sunny Mountain Boys

3. What is the trademark instrument of bluegrass great, Bill Monroe? Banjo Dobro Fiddle Mandolin

4. Which of the following duos started out as members of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys? Bobby and Sonny Osbourne Ralph and Carter Stanely Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Jim and Jesse McReynolds

5. How did Flatt and Scruggs choose the name of their band, The Foggy Mountain Boys? Lester Flatt's hometown was Foggy Mountain, TN. Scruggs said that playing in country music bars was 'Like looking down from a foggy mountaintop'. Earl Scruggs was born in the Great Smoky Mountains. It comes from the song 'Foggy Mountaintop' by the Carter Family.

6. Which of the following was in both The Foggy Mountain Boys and The Blue Grass Boys? Jim McReynolds Jimmy Martin Mac Wiseman Arthur Lee 'Red' Smiley

7. Who is best known for his three-finger picking of a five-string banjo? Lester Flatt Curly Joe Cline Doc Watson Earl Scruggs

8. Bluegrass legends Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs recorded and traveled together until Flatt's death in 1979? True False

9. Which University of Wisconsin and Julliard graduate whose banjo picking is featured on "Deliverance" proves you do not have to be a 'good ol' Southern boy' to pick a mean banjo? Ralph Stanley Eric Weissberg Earl Scruggs J. D. Crowe

10. Not only men are famous in bluegrass. This lady is a talented fiddler and her lovely vocals were featured on the songs 'Down to the River to Pray', 'Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby', and 'I'll Fly Away' on the movie soundtrack of 'O Brother, Where Art Thou'. June Carter Cash Dolly Parton Alison Krauss Reba McIntire