Wasn't Professor Irwin Corey the World's Greatest Authority?

On bluegrass, it is hard to beat Bill Monroe. He invented the style and kept experimenting with it and you can hear a continuity between the first Bill and Charlie duets in 1936 (?) on Bluebird, all the way on to his later recordings. And if he didn't like something, he didn't go that way again. (You didn't hear the accordion after about 1943)

I am also interested that many songs which I consider "old time" -- i.e., the whole Carter family recordings-- are considered by some posters to be Bluegrass. I would advise somebody looking for good bluegrass songs to consider the term an oxymoron, and find some of the Charlie Poole re-releases, kick back and enjoy. PETE