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folk music played at heavy-metal speed by people who learned it sitting on porches
means A style of American roots music driven by fast, virtuosic acoustic string instruments — banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and upright bass — built on tight vocal harmonies and improvised solos.
from Named for Bill Monroe's band, the Blue Grass Boys, who formed in the 1930s and gave the genre its sound and its name in the following decades. Monroe took the band's name from his home state of Kentucky, the 'Bluegrass State' — so called for the lush pasture grass (Poa pratensis) whose flower heads give fields a faint bluish cast in spring.
- named after
- Bill Monroe's band, the Blue Grass Boys
- the grass
- Kentucky grass blooms blue-purple in spring
- banjo style
- Earl Scruggs picked three fingers, not one
- speed demons
- songs routinely break 200 beats per minute
- no drums
- the rhythm lives in the mandolin chops
bill monroe — invented bluegrass music in the 1940s with his band the blue grass boys
earl scruggs — pioneered the three-finger banjo picking style that defines bluegrass, 1945 onward