Rick,
I hear you. I was a
radio announcer in my younger days and worked at rock, country, and classical stations. So I was exposed to a lot of music plus a lot of freebie promotional albums of different forms of music.
People get locked into one type of music and never expand their thinking. Like down here in the South, some people are strictly Bluegrass. It is like a religion or something. They don't even like Bluegrass Groups that do rock tunes like Seldom Scene doing Clapton's 'After Midnight' or Dylan's 'Boots of Spanish Leather'. Very strange.
By the way, I went to my first private Bluegrass jam down here a few weeks ago in our neighborhood. It was a lot of fun and yes, there was moonshine and all. The guys were really great musicians and like to party. They've been having this jam on Friday nights for the last 40 years.
I didn't play that night but the next time I'm going to try to 'Spank the Plank' with them. A lot of I-IV-V tunes and I can't forget to bring a capo.
But they were really good flatpickers and the harmony was amazing.
Dan