{"id":2789,"date":"2014-05-02T14:41:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2014-05-02T14:46:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T18:46:48","slug":"cept-old-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2789","title":{"rendered":"‘Cept Old Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

My collection of musics sprawls and continues to grow, and I’ve played around with all sorts of ideas for what to do with the riches, how to distribute them to audiences via radio shows I might do, books I might spawn, other media I might invade. Ten years ago, when I last started to assemble materials for an ethnomusicological farrago, YouTube didn’t exist<\/a>; now practically anything you can imagine has a relevant video, so I’m thinking to combine that treasure trove with stuff I know (or, better yet, stuff I continue to be curious about).<\/p>\n

The first project that occurred to me, in the form of a named collection, is a mandolin-centered compendium with the name ‘Cept Old Bill<\/b>. I thought it would be interesting to begin with a tune written by Jethro Burns, which both honors and pokes a bit of fun at Bill Monroe, who is generally named as the Father of Bluegrass Music. The verses name a series of legendary mandolin players, basically saying for each “nobody does it better… ‘cept Old Bill”. So when I did a YouTube search for ‘Cept Old Bill<\/b> one of the first results was this remarkable document. Not only do you see and hear Jethro Burns (who died in 1989), at the very end Bill Monroe himself puts in an appearance. :