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1. Nowhere near the old mainstream

   by Richard Parks

   • Published:
     1. No Depression, July 01, 2006
   • Metainfo:
     • 589 words
     • 19.6 inches

   "Bluegrass now is like rock in the '70s. It's produced. It's predictable." Bobby Earl Davis sits in a San Francisco coffee shop, his right shoulder cocked and hunched. An angular, tense, Picasso blue-period Ralph Stanley, he'll assume the same posture onstage the following night when he plays banjo and sings with the Earl Brothers. "We're like the Ramones.

   
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