Bluegrass-y guy from Arkansas with a distinctly infectious charm. Plus he yodels. And whistles.

Descriptions don't do the guy justice. Just listen and enjoy:

Nick Shoulders - Tiny Desk Submission 2020 - 'Too Old to Dream' [www.youtube.com]

Nick Shoulders - Hanks Checkout Line *official video* [www.youtube.com]

Nick Shoulders - “Crying” (Roy Orbison cover) *live* from the Ozark Wild [www.youtube.com]

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"Political correctness is just intellectual colonialism and psychological fascism for the creation of thought crime" - Steve Hughes

What's my "Super Power"? I can make active threads go stone-dead with a single post. I try to use this power only for good and not for evil but, you know... stuff happens.

I really love bluegrass and really hate country...

I'm conflicted listening to his music

but it would probably grow on me if I give it a chance

I could play 'Checkout Line' on Hillbilly at Harvard, except Harvard in a fit of virus panic has banned all but a few undergraduates from the building where WHRB has its studios, so I'm exiled and HAH is pre-recorded or pre-empted.

/Mr Lynn

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"Hillbilly at Harvard"
Honky-tonk Country and Bluegrass
Founded in 1948 by Pappy Ben Minnich
Saturdays 9am - 11am Eastern
WHRB-FM, Cambridge, MA
Streaming at [www.WHRB.org]
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I really love bluegrass and really hate country...

I'm conflicted listening to his music

but it would probably grow on me if I give it a chance

I get you. I grew up on "old school", make-you-feel-guilty-when-you-haven't-even-done-anything Country and if I don't actively like it, I do at least have a benign familiarity with it whereas most "modern" Country just sounds like bad rockabilly to me. Bluegrass, on the other hand, I've only recently developed an interest in and quite like so far.

With that in mind, perhaps you'll appreciate this video of a much less obscure but much more conventionally Bluegrass performer:

Billy Strings - "Dust In A Baggie" | Live at the Opry [www.youtube.com]

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WARNING- If I posted a link in the above message, assume it is at minimum "NSFW- Language". Occasionally you'll be wrong.

Lie to me if you must, but don't lie to me and insult my intelligence in the same sentence.

Resist the Thought Police: George Orwell's book 1984 was meant as a warning, not an instruction manual.

"Political correctness is just intellectual colonialism and psychological fascism for the creation of thought crime" - Steve Hughes

What's my "Super Power"? I can make active threads go stone-dead with a single post. I try to use this power only for good and not for evil but, you know... stuff happens.

No conflict listening to Billy Strings - he kicks ass!

Here's one I found recently: [youtu.be]

Molly Tuttle joined by Tommy Emmanuel - first song will knock your socks off