"Bill Monroe, often called the father of Bluegrass music, established the classic Bluegrass sound - high, pure tenor voice, powerful mandolin solos against the banjo background. Bluegrass remains ...

Michael Robertson grew up singing church songs out of hymn books—classics like “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior” and “Lord, I ...

(harmonizing) Before gospel music, the music of the church was often classical music ... shedding of things that feel homespun, or southern, or country to embrace a northern urbanity, in order ...