Nashville Bluegrass Scene

By Jedd Ferris Special to The Washington Post Monday, July 13, 2009; 3:10 PM

It's no secret that Nashville is a hitmaker's hotbed, with commercial country music standing tall as one of the record industry's last viable outlets. But while the Tennessee city slickers are looking for the next Tim McGraw or Taylor Swift, there's another flourishing scene in Music City that shouldn't be overlooked: Americana's most underappreciated genre, bluegrass.
The high lonesome sound, characterized by ascending harmonies and the skilled string interplay of banjo, mandolin and fiddle, is part of Nashville's old soul. It's widely accepted that the country offshoot was created here in 1945, when ... Read more