That's the good thing about what we're doing playing bluegrass. It doesn't matter one way or the other whether country radio plays it or not.
I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.
Country's hip; it's cool music.
Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.
When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.
It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.
I think the country as a whole is embracing this music more than it ever has.