Bluegrass music is a genre that developed in the US, in the 1940s, and has roots in traditional English, Scottish, and Irish ballads, along with…

Read "Kentucky's Bluegrass Music" by James C. Claypool available from Rakuten Kobo. It is likely that most fans of bluegrass music would concede that no state should be more associated with bluegrass musi...

The Bluegrass family of instruments include: fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, string bass, dobro, autoharp, and vocal harmonies (Mills). The five string banjo is the instrument used most to produce the driving syncopated rhythm common in Bluegrass music (Smith). The banjo is most often the telltale characteristic of Bluegrass music. Many Bluegrass songs are based on 3 chords: G, C, and D (Nold), making the songs relatively simple, and easy for the musician to comprehend.

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Bluegrass flatpicking is a long tradition with a lot of fine players. And many of those players are not just excellent flatpickers on acoustic guitar - they also excel on banjo, mandolin, and more! It's an intimidating amount of talent to sift through. So how do I propose to rank the best 25 Bluegrass Flatpickers in the world? Well, I'm going to dodge the issue a bit. I'm going to put down 25 players that have dominated the field. But I will refrain from ranking them #1, #2, #3, etc. I thi