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Guest blogger: Like the banjo? You might when it sounds like this ...

Aug 26, 2009, 3:08pm

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:

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