Just some comments on recent posts:

Barbara- That was very well written post on what "bluegrass" means today. I'd expect to read that in a magazine.

Mark- liked your "too loose (-Lautrec)" pun, only banjo jokes should be allowed!!!

Art- Snuffy Jenkins and others helped develop the "3-Finger Style" which Earl Scruggs perfected. I still think that it's the 3-Finger style that is one of the important distinctions between Old-Time and Bluegrass. If that is the essential element defining bluegrass then it could be argued that Snuffy Jenkins and Obray Ramsey (there's a great article about him I believe in: Banjo Unlimited) were early (pre Monroe) bluegrassers.

Comments on the 3-Finger style anyone?

-Richie