Word: bluegrass
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...DOLLY PARTON Little Sparrow (Sugar Hill) Although lumped with the bluegrass revival, Parton's album sports little of the preciousness associated with most nouveau blue. On traditional tunes and unconventional ones (Collective Soul's Shine, Cole Porter's I Get a Kick Out of You), Parton tests bluegrass's elasticity--but gently. The whole album sounds fresh and playful...
...included the Nickel Creek trio in your report on the next wave in music [INNOVATORS, May 28]. They are indeed in the vanguard of country music, which is badly in need of a shake-up. But what, I wonder, did you mean by saying "Nothing about them smells of bluegrass"? Bluegrass has evolved since Bill Monroe as much as jazz has since Louis Armstrong. It is full of innovative, nontraditional artists right now, and Nickel Creek's musicians are only the most visible among them. CRAIG HAVIGHURST Nashville, Tenn...
DIED. JOHN HARTFORD, 63, quirky, sociable bluegrass banjo virtuoso, fiddler and guitarist, who penned the much recorded country song Gentle on My Mind, which won him two Grammy Awards and became a Top 40 hit for Glen Campbell; of cancer; in Nashville, Tenn. Beloved for spirited performances at bluegrass festivals and for throwing picking parties at his home, Hartford collaborated with the Byrds and Benny Martin but also recorded some 40 of his own albums, most recently appearing on the sound track for the film O Brother, Where Art Thou...
...contemporary music is a bit too polished," he says. "Just as there's a growing affinity for roots-oriented rap, I think there's a growing audience for roots-oriented country that's stripped down and not overproduced." He cites as proof the commercial success of the million-selling, bluegrass-infused O Brother Where Art Thou? sound track, which was released on Mercury Nashville but shifted to Lost Highway...
...Appalachian bluegrass, tango and the jazz stylings of Bobby McFerrin are just a few of the musical genres that Ma has explored over the years...