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Being a big fan of raw hillbilly music, I tended to disagree with a lot of the experimentation Scruggs was involved in. Bad enough that he and Flatt and others were trying to set records for who could play fastest back in the early days, but then Scruggs drew a lot of attention and badly-needed support away from traditional artists in Bluegrass. Not entirely his fault necessarily, just a consequence of not being concerned with the other people trying to keep traditions alive. Then places like Jamboree in Wheeling started their "modern country" experiment, and who needed that? With a million music venues in the U.S., did these people have to steal from the genres that were already on life support? I shudder to think of what would happen if the big music companies tried to muscle Mary Poppins and Sound of Music into the Met. "But experimentation is good" they would say.