Today's bluegrassers??? Most of them are rude and noisy and boorish...

I used to play bluegrass years ago and I still have an occasional listen to early Flatt & Scruggs and Bill Monroe but I feel Bobert makes a good point with that statement.

I think that the blues element in Bill Monroe's singing and mandolin playing stands out - as it does in a lot of Scrugg's banjo playing - enriching the music and giving it depth and some 'soul'. To me, a lot of later bluegrass is merely a clinical, metronomic speed excercise.