From: gerry@maths.mq.edi.ai.i2u4email   
      
   In article ,   
    Abby Sale  wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:41:33 GMT, Gerry Myerson   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >OK, let me put it this way - was anybody doing anything in 1922   
   > >that you and I would recognize today as bluegrass? That's not   
   > >a rhetorical question, it's a genuine expression of my ignorance   
   > >on the topic. But if the answer is no, then I maintain my puzzlement   
   > >over a book of pre-1922 bluegrass gospel.   
   >   
   > I know practically nothing of BG, myself.  Not in these terms, anyway.  I   
   > think the point of the book is to present a _music_ book containing the   
   > gospel material that would later often be used in BG.  Not that they were   
   > created in BG style.   
      
   OK, that I can accept. And it does sound like a fine book.   
   I have a cassette or two of the author's music, pretty good   
   stuff (but not, as it happens, gospel music).   
      
   > As I say, I claim very limited knowledge here - my own   
   > synagogue didn't play this type of stuff.   
      
   What a coincidence - neither did mine!   
      
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