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Title: Dull and somewhat offensive
Review: Having been born a first generation Yankee with Southern roots, I of course was raised listening to the music of Bill Monroe and Earl and Scruggs. But this is NOT bluegrass, nor even the more popular "Roots" music. Aside from the always great Allison Krauss and one or two other exceptions, the caterwauling on this album is offensive, the equivalent of a White man's minstrel show. I find the "musicianship" of some of the "artists" a rude "homage" to true American Appalachian music; they sound like caricaturists from a 1930's vaudeville act hamming it up as to what this type of music "should" sound like. Don't waste your time, I can't even get past the fourth or fifth track. Utterly offensive for someone raised on this type of stuff.
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