As an electrician I do a lot of construction work.This entails listening to a lot of music,most of which is of the hard rock,head-banging type, played at ear-splitting volume levels.I would rather have no music at all than be subjected to this crap.

So it was with great pleasure when on the latest project, one of the sheetrockers started playing the CD of O Brother. What a change. None of the other guys liked it, but I sure did.He followed it with Tim O'Brian's "Red On Blond" and then a cd by a local duo playing guitar and fiddle "neo-traditional".

At last a kindred spirit in the construction trades. Turns out he is a bluegrass guitarist, who also plays mandolin, fiddle and some bass.

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