Nowhere near the old mainstream

• 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.