From: Kool@koookright.org   
      
   tsk tsk tsk.....   
      
      
      
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   > >Country has Charley Pride.   How come I have never seen   
   >>a black Bluegrass player?   
   > As a white liberal democrat, I am occasionally appalled and   
   > embarrassed at the redneck attitudes of some of the fans of the genre.   
   > (Take a look at some of the banter around this newsgroup -- the stuff   
   > that's totally irrelevant to bluegrass music.) When I first began   
   > playing in the early 70's, it was with a bunch of different Jewish   
   > folks, largely from the Pete Seeger and Hootenanny tradition.  There   
   > were some great players, but some of them (and me too) were turned off   
   > by the attitudes of some of the Klannish-looking.   
   >   
   > So I caneasily  imagine the reluctance of any minority to get noticed.   
   >   
   > I would hardly call Victor Wooten a "bluegrass player", even less than   
   > Chris Thile.  But I've heard him play bluegrass, and I can't imagine   
   > anyone else playing  electric bass better.   
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