The Boston Globe, March 8th, 2002
It's the bowing of a fiddle blending beautifully with the strum of a banjo and the pluck of a mandolin. But the melody? It's AC/DC's "Highway to Hell." You can't chalk it up entirely to the Grammy-winning "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack, because it has been going on since before that film hit theaters, but the bluegrass revival is reaching into unlikely corners of the music industry. There are now a staggering number of bluegrass tribute albums that pay homage to everyone from Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead to Neil Diamond, Creed, and AC/DC. Once the domain of acoustic purists, the mu...
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