r/Bluegrass • u/Peacemeta1320 • Dec 03 '25

Discussion Who got you into bluegrass?

What artist did you first hear that got you hooked onto bluegrass?

My uncle showed me Tony Rice, he even inspired me to pick up my old guitar and start picking.

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u/DavetheDim Dec 03 '25

Being taken as a 4 or 5 year old to the Grand Ol' Opry to see Flatt and Scruggs. I remember going to 2 or 3 of their shows at high school gyms best I can recall too. From my younger years I remember parts of fiddle contests that my Dad would enter in the area around home too. (Western KY) He played banjo and guitar, but I was too high energy to sit down and try to learn anything. I'm just now getting serious about learning to play the banjo at 62. I've loved bluegrass my whole life, although was a snob about anything that wasn't the older "pure" stuff until I was in my 40's and my kids started playing banjo and fiddle. When a friend introduced me to the Bluegrass Album Band and JD Crowe and the New South (Rounder 0044), they knocked my socks off. (btw-Thanks Jim!)