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The Beginnings of Bluegrass Music

No one had ever heard of bluegrass music until 1939, when a man named Bill Monroe put together a band called the Blue Grass Boys. In a few years, people liked the Blue Grass Boys so much that other bands began to copy their style, and the name was copied too. These days, a bluegrass band is usually some combination of acoustic (nonelectric) instruments. It might include a bass, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, or banjo. Bluegrass musicians may try new songs and styles, but they always keep one ear tuned to the past and the songs their grandmothers sang to them.

Text copyright © 2006 by Sarah Martin Busse and
Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Illustration copyright © 2006 by Barry Root
"Banjo Granny" lyrics and sheet music copyright © 2006 by Sarah Martin Busse
All rights reserved.
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The text of this book is set in Scala.
The illustrations are watercolor, gouache, and pastel pencil
on hot press Arches watercolor paper.
Manufactured in China
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Busse, Sarah Martin.
Banjo Granny / Sarah Martin Busse and Jacqueline Briggs Martin;
illustrated by Barry Root,
p. cm.
Summary: Baby Owen's grandmother learns that he is wiggly, jiggly,
and all-around giggly for bluegrass music, so with her banjo, she travels
by curious means to visit and play for him.
ISBN-13: 978-0-618-33603-6
ISBN-10: 0-618-33603-6
[Grandmothers—Fiction. 2. Babies—Fiction. 3. Bluegrass Music—
Fiction.] I. Martin, Jacqueline Briggs. II. Root, Barry, ill. III. Title.
PZ7.B9659Ban 2006
[E]—dc22
2004025123

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