Have you read David Crowder's "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, but Nobody Wants to Die: Or the Eschatology of Bluegrass"? I think Christian rock / contemporary worship music is generally about as boring and formulated as possible but his group's pretty creative, and they're actually talented bluegrass musicians (their album "A Collision" has a couple folksy tunes, and they released "B Collision" with more rootsy versions of other songs).
"There is an eschatology to bluegrass music that holds both suffering and hope. Both are inherent and necessary items within it.
And so we begin with a premise: the "high lonesome sound" of bluegrass music was born from pain yet, despite such dismal roots, has hope at its core. We are not scientists; therefore, we are not scientific in the formation or conception of this premise or in the execution of proving it. But we will tell the story of bluegrass. And you can hear that it is truth. That it is, in fact, pain that birthed this high lonesome sound.
In the living of life here on earth, there is most assuredly present a large amount of joy, but there is also a given amount of pain. Bluegrass is a shaking, shimmering echo of this - our reality."
I don't own a copy of the book, but if you haven't read it already I think it'd be worth finding one.
Have you read David Crowder's "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, but Nobody Wants to Die: Or the Eschatology of Bluegrass"? I think Christian rock / contemporary worship music is generally about as boring and formulated as possible but his group's pretty creative, and they're actually talented bluegrass musicians (their album "A Collision" has a couple folksy tunes, and they released "B Collision" with more rootsy versions of other songs).
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And so we begin with a premise: the "high lonesome sound" of bluegrass music was born from pain yet, despite such dismal roots, has hope at its core. We are not scientists; therefore, we are not scientific in the formation or conception of this premise or in the execution of proving it. But we will tell the story of bluegrass. And you can hear that it is truth. That it is, in fact, pain that birthed this high lonesome sound.
In the living of life here on earth, there is most assuredly present a large amount of joy, but there is also a given amount of pain. Bluegrass is a shaking, shimmering echo of this - our reality."
I don't own a copy of the book, but if you haven't read it already I think it'd be worth finding one.