bluegrass musician

Mountain string player

A bluegrass musician plays bluegrass—a style of American acoustic music rooted in Appalachian folk traditions, featuring banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and upright bass.

The genre emphasizes tight vocal harmonies and virtuosic instrumental breaks.

He spent decades as a bluegrass musician before crossing over to country.

Related
  • banjoFretted drum-stringed instrument
  • fiddleAdjust restlessly; folk violin
  • mandolinPlucked eight-string lute descendant
  • dobroMetal-coned acoustic guitar
  • string bandMusicians on plucked instruments

Appalachian · picking · twang · Nashville · opry · hillbilly · acoustic · strings · jamboree · porch · holler · coal miner · flatpick · lonesome · harmony · upright bass · Kentucky · mountain

Opposites
musical genre

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Electric player in bands

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Music mixer performer

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Family

blue, grass, musician, blues, bluish, bluer, bluest, grasses, grassy

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G