I play both bluegrass and old-time music (and can be fairly eclectic as well) and in old-time music one often has JUST ONE chord (such as Ducks on the millpond!) Where, then, is the excitement? It IS there, that's for certain, or at least, it is there for me. I have run into some of the Rigid bluegrassers (in fact was going out with one for a while) who told me, for instance, that it was wrong to add a 3rd (baritone) part into a Stanley Brothers song originally recorded as a duet. "After all, there were only TWO Stanley brothers, Pete!" My rejoinder that toward the end, Carter was so drunk that he wasn't sure how many people were singing with him was not taken well. Grey Wolf, I wish I could wave a magic wand and take away that jaded feeling. Maybe hanging around some newbies for whom it's all new and exciting and catch some of that excitement? (Maybe, said the evil doctor, a simple blood transfusion, heh heh heh) better stop here