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? Bill Monroe Mac Wiseman Doc Watson 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 Virginia Boys The Sunny Mountain Boys The Tennessee Cutups The Clinch Mountain Boys

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

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

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? Jimmy Martin Mac Wiseman Arthur Lee 'Red' Smiley Jim McReynolds

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

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 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