Re: What is klezmer?

[Judy Pinnolis <pinnolis...>]

FYI
It was theCharles River Boys Band (from Cambridge, MA, I believe) recorded
an entire album of Beatles songs in bluegrass style......great stuff.
Judy

>(now olev hashalom--alas!) plays at least one Beatles song and some other 
>such material in distinctly, markedly bluegrass stylings.  In fact, other, 
>more specifically bluegrass bands have recorded Beatles songs and other pop 
>material.  Does that make the Beatles songs involved bluegrass?  Of course 
>not.  Does that make the recordings (tracks or albums) on which such 
>renditions appear no longer bluegrass?  I don't think so.  These are 
>bluegrass versions--stylings--of non-bluegrass repertoire songs.
>


Judith S. Pinnolis
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