Country music tell stories. That's something that I can relate to.
I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.
And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
I came late to the genre of folk music.
I'm really taken with 'Calling Me Home' by Alice Gerrard.
Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.
I really got into Gaelic music and the whole sound of it, and I got to go to Scotland.
My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.
I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.
I'm a sucker for a good country song.
Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
I remember a song I did called 'If the Good Die Young' - I wanted to have a lead guitar solo on there, and the label flipped out! It was too rock and roll. They made us go back and put fiddle on the solo.
When I started out at about 19, 20, it took me two years just to tell the difference between a jig and a reel. It does all sound the same, but what you can find once you go in - it's never-ending. So that's my love.
I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.
Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.
I'm a huge country fan and am always inspired by classic country.
I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.
The storytelling in country music is so powerful.
I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.
I have such a deep love for traditional country music.
Going back to the Byrds and 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo,' when country was kind of getting away from the fiddle and steel aspect, it took some rock & rollers to introduce a new generation to it, and it kinda put some things straight.
