http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/07/music.rickyskaggs.ap/index.html
Here is an intersting article about Ricky Skaggs. The article talks about his new bluegrass record "Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947".
It is nice learn from this article how open to experimentation and finding new sounds the "Fathers of Bluegrass" were. Skaggs talks about Bill Monroe's earliest band. "I'm sure Bill was kind of looking for a new sound. He had had accordion at one time and electric guitar" before Scruggs came aboard, said McCoury, a member of Monroe's band in the early '60s. "But I think it all came about accidentally. I don't think he had a certain thing in mind."
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