keith-style · adams-place2013-classic-banjo

Keith, a Boston-area native, came out of the urban folk song revival and local bluegrass bands. ... during Rinzler's tenure as Monroe's manager in the early 1960s, a number of northeastern musicians became Blue Grass Boys—Keith being the first ... In this context, Keith demonstrates his uniqueness—a “Keith style”—to the group, which maintained many of the elements innovated by Scruggs but was more melodic, following some of the contours typically heard on the fiddle and lending a more improvisatory feeling to the sound.