In 1948, what would come to be known as bluegrass emerged as a genre within the post-war country/western-music industry, a period of time characterized now as the golden era or wellspring of "traditional bluegrass".

Bluegrass is a style of American roots music combining traditional folk, country, and blues elements. It is often characterised by acoustic instrumentation, fast tempos, and tight vocal harmonies.

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Traditional bluegrass musicians play folk songs, tunes with simple traditional chord progressions, and on acoustic instruments of a type that were played by bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys band in the late 1940s.

bluegrass, a country and western style of music that emerged in the United States after World War II (1939–45). It is a direct descendant of the old-time string-band music that had been widely played and recorded by such groups as the Carter Family from the late 1920s.

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The common sound needed a name, and people began referring to it as “bluegrass music.” Bluegrass bands began forming all over the country and Bill Monroe became the acknowledged “Father of Bluegrass Music,” a title coined in 1963 by Monroe’s agent, Ralph Rinzler, in an article for Sing Out! magazine.”

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Play Bluegrass. A growing collection of bluegrass standards, old-time tunes, and fiddle favorites. Every song has its key, chord progression, and history. Public domain songs also have lyrics and free sheet music. All written by a picker for pickers.

Bluegrass, (genus Poa), in botany, the largest genus in the grass family (Poaceae), comprising more than 500 species. Bluegrasses are found in temperate and tropical climates worldwide, and several have naturalized in areas outside their native range.