The Rough Guide To Bluegrass

Another genre compilation, featuring both contemporary and older artists...much banjo, mandolin, and twangy singing. It's interesting to hear all of these songs alongside each other - makes me realise that there's often not a great deal of difference between 'bluegrass' recorded thirty or forty years ago and today. I'm not sure how far I need to go into this music, though (looking beyond this particular disc) - although it's very easy to listen to as background, I often don't find the songs to be especially rewarding on close listening, and have a feeling that I'm not likely to get into bluegrass in a big way at this point in my life, beyond maybe a handful of relatively modern acts working at the margins of the genre. Maybe the truth is that unless it's sad it doesn't speak to me.