Comments on: Grammy committee says Hag is not bluegrass

By: f5joe

f5joe — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:20:23 +0000

I love the Hag! But Hag, you ARE country. I’m a bit tired of the country elders attempting to gain audience in the BG world. Again, love the Hag.

Same goes for BG artists trying to go country. It’s a genre thing.

Love the Hag!

By: formerfiddler

formerfiddler — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:03:41 +0000

Love the Hag, BUT,it ain’t bluegrass. Just his stuff (GREAT STUFF) with some acoustic back-up. I was disappointed when I first heard the album. Thought he would have at least done some Flatt & Scruggs or Monroe. I agree with the board.

By: mefloyd

mefloyd — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:23:20 +0000

I am very happy to see the NARAS come to their senses and disqualify this CD as a Bluegrass project. I love the Hag, and this CD is a fine one indeed, but please, don’t try to tell me it’s Bluegrass.

‚ÄúBut by every reasonable definition, this is a bluegrass album, and we‚ÄìMerle, Ronnie [Reno], Del [McCoury] and everyone involved in the project‚Äìthink that Academy voters ought to be able to consider it for Best Bluegrass Album.‚Äù

I would love to know the reasonable definitions by which this CD could be considered Bluegrass. What? Is it because there is mandolin and banjo involved? I’m afraid the singing style alone is enough to say “no way,” it simply is not Bluegrass. What we have here is pure country done with what we like to call the traditional Bluegrass instruments.

I like Merle Haggard and I like this CD but I’m glad it’s not being categorized as Bluegrass by the NARAS.

By: Grassin Gal

Grassin Gal — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:57:24 +0000

Honestly, music awards have been headed towards main stream Hollywood for quite some time now. You just never know what they are going to pull next. I remeber being a little girl and actually hearing bluegrass on the country music awards show. Now, it’s models with pretty voices…it’s just not as true as bluegrass. As one person said, maybe this will get bluegrass out to more people since they are considering this album to be country. We can only hope for the best. LST said it best…”Muder on Music Row”.

By: martinmcwhorter

martinmcwhorter — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:39:29 +0000

This is crap. Is this the same committee that gave the award to Bruce Hornsby the first year it was offered. That was a godawful sin to give the award to that piano tinkler.

By: 1969mets

1969mets — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:25:23 +0000

It actually would be a far greater statement for bluegrass if the album were nominated in the Country Music category.

But, really, I couldn’t give a lousy G-run about silly awards.