If you think African-American music isn’t a key ingredient to bluegrass, you never heard Bill Monroe. Start with “Sittin’ On Top Of The World” and enjoy that pentatonic scale. What came from Scotland/Ireland met in the hills with what came up the rivers from New Orleans. https://t.co/sOGIJAEh1g

— David Simon (@AoDespair) May 25, 2023

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— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) May 25, 2023

Your need to write them out of actual history is the far greater tell, you racist squib. Where the fuck do you think the goddam banjo came from? Not Nashville, you hopeless wonder. Not even close. https://t.co/kcJRezZhm0

— David Simon (@AoDespair) May 25, 2023