What a great combo! I talked to the owner of the red truck just as he was leaving. He owns a body shop in the general area and boy did he do a sweet job on that one? He said he bought it there at the show last year. It's an original low-mile big block that purred like a kitten. Unbelievably quiet standing their talking with it running.
Yeah, the farther south from here the more pickin' you'll hear. Hey, could be a good line for a song! We have festivals all around here as well. Up where my mom lives in Friendsville, MD they have had a fiddler's contest for as long as I remember, yet I never talk to anyone who has heard of it. Actually, it's a fiddle & banjo contest.
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I hadn't been to a big bluegrass show like this for a long time. What I noticed is these days many banjo players are getting back into the roots sound of claw hammer style. I came up with it in the '70s and it was all about Scruggs style. The Connor Family Band was fantastic! David Grisman came on a couple groups later with his latest Sextet. His dawg music is a step away from bluegrass for sure. Basically, it was an acoustic string instrument festive, primarily bluegrass.