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bluegrass. it is show off music. it is the double dipped jalepeno infused chicken fried batter dipped snicker bar music spinning ride at the carnival on a stick. it is competitive at some levels, but the pros know what they're up on stage for. to melt faces. bill monroe cooked up a show with extra high singing, extra fast picking, extra tight harmonies, extra gospelly gospel music out of the holiness movement, extra fancy suits and hats, and the whole thing is an over the top extra thing built for the stage. it isn't downhome average musician folks sitting on the porch singing ballads and playing nice tunes on mellow banjos and never was. none of that is knocking it, it's accepting it for what it is.
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Originally posted by groundhogpeggyI agree with your brother...play it because you will have fun playing it. bottom line, for sure. hopefully anyone who listens might catch the fun too.
I guess with me music has always been a healer...like...in one of many examples I can think of, one time I was cutting limbs off of a box elder tree for our goats. It was dark...bout maybe 10 at night, and like a dummy, I was looking up in the dark and cutting a high limb to fall down for our goats to eat the leaves off of...but...as can only happen to such a dummy for doing that...lol...the limb fell directly into my eye...so my eye hurt like mad and I fell down and the goats joyfully jumped up and down on my back because they thought I was playing, etc. Finally got back up to the house and had a horribly painful eye...anyway, the cornea was scratched bigtime, among other things...and for about a week straight that eye hurt like mad...hurt to have it open, but hurt to have it shut, and you're out of options if neither of those work.
Well that's a longer story than I intended to write, but during that week of horrible eye pain, where from one second to the next I could only alternate between eye open (owe, owe that hurts) and eye shut (yewwowwie that hurts). So I grabbed a guitar, and as long as I constantly picked tunes on the guitar I found the pain bearable. The eye doctor said I could take pain relievers...but I found music to reduce the pain substantially...enough that I could stand it. Of course I had to pick a guitar almost constantly to get through...still...it relieved my pain. I had a similar experience with an abscessed tooth...at the time I worked in the field as a map tech and couldn't play music all the time...that sucker hurt so bad I would have to lay down in the car and cry a few minutes after eating my lunch...but picking a guitar got me through until we could scrape and save enough for the dentist. By the time I got to the dentist the tooth had performed its own root canal...meaning the roots calcified over the damaged nerves inside of them and pretty much took care of the roots, and all that was left for the dentist was to put a SE KY steel crown on top...I still have that tooth today too. That's not the ideal way to take care of an abscessed tooth...I mean, it can kill ya...and the pain feels like it'll kill ya...lol...but another time when picking a guitar as much as I could actually alleviated physical pain in my case.
But there are really strong emotional things happening with music...it conjures up emotions out of their hiding places and pours its healing properties all over them. How can anyone get through life without it?
Yea...when I was recovering from surgery...all I could do was sit on the couch...rolling over, getting up and down, was so painful. Music is the thing that made recovery bearable!! Sitting on couch, I learned new tunes from YouTube and played every day.
It also helps to fade migraine headaches, and abdominal cramping...
For sure, music is medicine!
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