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"Man of Constant Sorrow," I said, answering before she could ask.
"That's right! How did you know?" she queried.
It is more than a juxtaposition of styles, it is an acknowledgment that both
genres come – on some level – from the same source: the blues (as Glaser
points out in the his notes). It is not that jazz and bluegrass necessarily
sound the same, but that there is a similar element of emotion that
the musicians must channel in order to force their fingers across the frets,
to force air into the horns.
