Re: OT guitar backup

"He said that the
> bluegrass folks thought of the beat not as
> a 'mountain top' so to speak but a plateau, a long flat surface upon
> which various musicians played behind or ahead or in between."

This exactly describes how the '30s-'40s Count Basie orchestra (and
the many similar jazz bands) played, i.e. "swinging," and there was a
big influence of jazz on "hillbilly" during the '30s-'40s -- which is
why bluegrass ended up sounding like that.

Joseph Scott