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“There’s the Stanley Brothers, Flatt and Scruggs, and Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass. But there’s no mother of bluegrass”: How Lindsay Lou, Molly Tuttle and an all-star cast...

After discovering women had written many of the standards she'd grown up singing, Lindsay Lou went digging into history. What she found inspired a four-day Nashville session – and a record designed to put the mothers of bluegrass back in the room

“There’s the Stanley Brothers, Flatt and Scruggs, and Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass. But there’s no mother of bluegrass”: How Lindsay Lou, Molly Tuttle and an all-star cast...
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After discovering women had written many of the standards she'd grown up singing, Lindsay Lou went digging into history.

What she found inspired a four-day Nashville session – and a record designed to put the mothers of bluegrass back in the room

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After discovering women had written many of the standards she'd grown up singing, Lindsay Lou went digging into history. What she found inspired a four-day Nashville session – and a record designed to put the mothers of bluegrass back in the room

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