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What does jamming mean

chillin out/ hanging out - the original meaning is to play music informally, to have a "jam session."

What instruments is Alison Krauss known for playing

She is known for playing the fiddle.

Bluegrass had a big increase in popularity when a famed 1960s TV show featured a bluegrass theme song who wrote and performed the song

The show was probably, "The Beverly Hillbillies," and the theme song was performed by "Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and the Foggy Mt. Boys."

Which of these instruments is not among the big five of bluegrass instruments

Banjo

Who came first in the history of bluegrass

Bluegrass as a style developed during the mid-1940s. Because of war rationing, recording was limited during that time, and it would be most accurate to say that bluegrass was played some time after World War II, but no earlier.

As with any musical genre, no one person can claim to have "invented" it. Rather, bluegrass is an amalgam of old-time music, country, ragtime and jazz. Nevertheless, bluegrass's beginnings can be traced to one band. Today Bill Monroe is referred to as the "founding father" of bluegrass music; the bluegrass style was named for his band, the Blue Grass Boys, formed in 1939.

Josh Graves took Earl Scruggs's technique on one instrument and applied it to another Which was it

he applied scruggs teqniques from thebanjo to the dobro

Two musicians joined Bill Monroes band in 1945 and had a major impact on the bands sound Who were they

Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt

The fiddles role in a bluegrass band is primarily

To provide melodies.

What is jamming in World War 2

Jamming is a radio transmission deliberately sent out to disrupt the enemy's communications.

What are the most closely describes a good country song

It is simple and direct

Each of these is a type of acoustic guitar except what

five string

Which one of these is not a characteristic of folk music

Folk music was invented in the 1930s by Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.

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