I just have to say I can't remember reading another (even in the distant past) thread that contains as much educated guesses as this here thread. Maybe you "folks" could give me some input and shed some light on my personel delemma. I've been playing the same tunes and music since the thirtys. Back then some say it was called "Folk Music" and "Parlour Music" (an era that ended around 1905). Then comes the war in the forties and some called it "Mountain Music" or "Hill Billy Music" (which is not cause you can't dance to it). Then these Monroe boys come along and start calling it "Monroe's Music" and then them boys break up over a girl and some changed their minds again and started calling it "Bluegrass Music". Now it's almost 2000 and you still can't dance to it and their still the same songs. I just don't know what I'm doing. But a bunch of us still like it a whole bunch and I guess it can't be "folk" cause Monroe invented it not so long ago. What you think?