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rowan-not-written-down · mitchell2024-muleskinner-cueing

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rowan-not-written-down
Assertion
Monroe expected band members to learn songs on their own; guitarist Peter Rowan recalled that parts were not written down, so different Blue Grass Boys developed different, sometimes incompatible, versions of the same song.
Quote
It wasn’t written down. It’s what you brought to Bill, you know what I mean? If he said “Muleskinner Blues,” you had to know how to play that. You weren’t gonna learn it (laughs) from him!
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en
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paragraph: 2.6
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