Blog: USATODAY.com - Pop Candy

Hello, Candy readers! I'm a Southern girl (grew up in Pocahontas, Ark.) and play a little bluegrass from time to time. As you may or may not know, there's a whole crop of bands out there who consider themselves alt-bluegrass, punk-bluegrass, rock-bluegrass ... basically, they're shaking things up. Some of the old-schoolers don't like it, but I say change is good. Especially when it sounds like this: