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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OkieJoe72" data-source="post: 4120535" data-attributes="member: 48447"><p>I agree mostly with what you said, but I have to somewhat disagree with Bluegrass being the only true American style of music. Bluegrass didn’t get its name until the 1940’s when Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys came along. Before that it was simply what we now call Old Time music. A good deal of the old time music was written by folks living in and around the Appalachian mountains, and a lot of the tunes were brought with them from overseas and handed down through the generations.  I personally think that the Old Time music was the first true American style. Old Time music is driven by the fiddle and banjo, and the banjo was introduced into North America by African slaves. The use of the banjo in these old time songs had never been done before until it came here which is why I say that Old Time is the first true American style.</p></blockquote><p></p>