Blueegrass music needs to change to reflect the times. It can't just be about fat white men with hats playing fast to impress each other.

The lyrics have to change. Hazel Dickens is on the forefront with lyrics depicting the condition today of exploited coal miners.

In place of the maudlin, sentimentalized, overly hymnal, bland lyrics of the contemporary bluegrass tune, the genre needs a song with teeth in it, telling the real story of the South today where jobs are being taken away by a greedy Republican Party, Federal money being denied to radio stations who broadcast from rural areas,

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/12-6

Appalachia being revisited with poverty and no justice for all.