Bluegrass grew out of the old Celtic songs and other mixes from the immigrants into old Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. These included African influences, also. My father liked bluegrass and he and the family, in southern Illinois ( southeast of St. Louis ), indicated they were singing and jigging to a lot of that type of music way back into the 1800's. The old Country music expanded into the electric and bluegrass didn't. If you listen to some of the old recordings made in the 30's through the 50's by the government ( some of that came out of the depression to retain some of the old culture that was being lost ) you can hear a lot of the beginnings of what grew into bluegrass from the old folk, Irish/Scottish, and Country songs. And remember, that is not the country/western played today. It grew out of that mix just like jazz. The original ragtime uses a banjo just like bluegrass. Fiddles are a key part of Celtic as well as bluegrass. Isn't music fun! Also, musical, math, and artistic talents are directly associated with the same brain areas as programming, etc. It's logic and being able to picture things. Tim Sinks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <chrome at real-time.com> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Hacker-style music > On 03/01 10:40 , Adam Maloney wrote: > > So anyone who ever wondered how I can type 100+ wpm, it's mostly because > > I have played piano for quite a few years. So I love classical music, > > especially classical and jazz piano. As evidenced by these excerpts > > from that MP3 directory: > > well at least I don't feel quite so strange for listening to Lawrence Welk > while writing documentation. :) > Mind you, I once found myself going directly from Slayer to Lawrence Welk to > Depeche Mode (or some other 80s-pop band... don't remember clearly > anymore)... on a per-song basis. I've also found that while I can't stand > country music for the most part, bluegrass is ok. Not sure why. > > Carl Soderstrom. > -- > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list