"Blues has little to do with bluegrass." This is quite incorrect.
Robert Cantwell's definitive overview, "Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making
of the Old Southern Sound," is all about how Bill Monroe crystallized
a retrospective vision of all the threads of southern music, including
hillbilly, gospel,
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> Look at Blues...it begat Bluegrass,
...and then it begat blueberries, right? Blues has little to do with
bluegrass. The former is based in African folk traditions, the latter
AFAIK in largely Irish traditions relocated to the American south (with
>the noted addition of the African Ban
