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Article: blue cheese; Wisconsin's Nob Hill Boys prove the grass isn't necessarily bluer down South.(FREETIME)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- January 21, 2000
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When it comes to bluegrass, Southerners can be somewhat chauvinistic. Consider what happened to the Nob Hill Boys of Madison, Wis., at a music convention in Nashville last year.
"This guy walked by and he looked at our sign, shook his head and said, `Bluegrass from Wisconsin? Last year, they had some bluegrass bands from Czechoslovakia and Japan,' and then he kept on going," Nob Hill singer/mandolinist John Fabke said last week. "My read on it was being from Wisconsin was akin to being from Czechoslovakia or Japan."
And a Southern musician complimented the Nob Hill Boys' performance by saying: "Man, you guys don't sound like you're from up North."
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