Rocky Top, the straight version, is one of those songs that "bluegrassers" refuse to play on the grounds that "everybody always plays that."

I've gone to ten years in row of local bluegrass fests without hearing it "because everybody always plays that."

Then somebody will actually play it - and then everybody plays it.

So the next (ten) year(s) everybody says "We don't play that because everybody always plays that."

In the meantime, they play the same ten or so tunes that everybody actually plays - over - and over - and over.

Just a thread drift nickel's worth.

John