Quote of the month

Any song that's authentically country - as opposed to bankrupt rock 'n' roll that's trying to reorganise as country - is potential bluegrass material. All it needs is the utilization of bluegrass instrumentation and the intensification that bluegrass always brings to any kind of country song.

The late Bill Vernon, writer, musician, and guardian of critical standards in bluegrass, in his notes to the Rounder album The Johnson Mountain Boys: At the old schoolhouse (reprinted in Thomas Goldsmith, The bluegrass reader (2004), p. 259