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America Unfiltered: The World of Old-Time Music

Geoffrey Himes, American Songwriter, 8 October 2015

RUTH UNGAR understands that a lot of people can't tell the difference between bluegrass and old-time music. Anytime they see a group with a fiddle and banjo, they call it a bluegrass band. It's like older people who think all hip-hop or punk rock sounds the same, she says; it's like people from the city who think all trees are the same.

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