bluegrass, GO ON ABOUT (phrase). Alice Gerrard. “I have this hesitancy to award myself, you know?" the empties

 “Hazel and I really did something. There is still a small piece of me that has a hard time believing that, because we were just doing what we loved,” she said. “I have this hesitancy to award myself, you know? They have these lifetime achievement awards they always give you. My life isn’t over.”

...to fetch IPAs from the fridge and drop the empties into the recycling bin outdoors. 

“The people whose music we admired so much did not go on about themselves, didn’t brag about what they had done,” Gerrard said.Credit...John Cohen

Alycee Byrd for The New York Times

Alice Gerrard Didn’t Plan a Bluegrass Career. She Broke Its Glass Ceiling.

Decades ago, the singer’s duo with Hazel Dickens revolutionized the genre. As their albums are reissued, she reflected on her unexpected life in folk music.

 Some things were named with new compounds: rattlesnake, bluegrass, bobcat, bullfrog; later, as the need arose, sidewalk, skyscraper,and drugstore. Words for things invented after American independence have often differed on opposite sides of the Atlantic: does your car have a boot and bonnet or a hood andtrunk?

Bluegrass artists use a variety of stringed instruments.

Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States.^[1] The genre derives its name from the band Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys.^[2] Like mainstream country music, it largely developed out of old-time string music, though in contrast, bluegrass is traditionally played exclusively on acoustic instruments and also has roots in traditional English, Scottish, and Irish ballads and dance tunes as well as in blues and jazz.^[3] Bluegrass was further developed by musicians who played with Monroe, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt. Monroe characterized the genre as: "Scottish bagpipes and ole-time fiddlin'. It's a part of Methodist, Holiness and Baptist traditions. It's blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound."^[4]

藍草音樂（英語：Bluegrass music）是美國民間音樂的一種，同時也是鄉村音樂的分支。它在愛爾蘭、蘇格蘭、英格蘭的傳統音樂分別有不同的來源。藍草音樂的靈感來自於英國與愛爾蘭、尤其是蘇格蘭阿巴拉契亞的美國新移民，和爵士樂與藍調一樣。相對於傳統音樂裡，所有樂器同時演奏，或某項樂器做主角、其他樂器負責配樂的演奏模式，在藍草音樂裡，就像爵士樂，每項樂器都有機會獨奏，或是在其他樂器的伴奏下即興演奏。典型的傳統藍草音樂，是以弦樂器為基礎，像是曼陀林、空心吉他、班卓琴、小提琴、直立式貝斯等，也可以再配上歌聲。

Definition of BE / GO ON ABOUT (phrase): keep talking about something boring.