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A Little Taste of Bluegrass

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Introduction:
"Bluegrass is traditional country music at its finest. It is a beautiful, haunting music, featuring rich vocal harmonies backed up with such string instruments as banjo, mandolin, guitar, and fiddle."


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


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 Sunny Mountain Boys
    The Virginia Boys
    The Clinch Mountain Boys
    The Tennessee Cutups


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


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


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


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 composer of 'Dueling Banjos' proves you do not have to be a 'good ol' Southern boy' to pick a mean banjo?
    Ralph Stanley
    J. D. Crowe
    Earl Scruggs
    Eric Weissberg


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'.
    Dolly Parton
    Alison Krauss
    Reba McIntire
    June Carter Cash


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