Packet P: Tossup 12

A musician in this genre released the album Drive shortly before co-founding a fusion band with Victor Wooten. Jazz saxophonist Eddie Barbash has toured with musicians who play this genre, Sam Reider and Sierra Hull. Sam Bush played mandolin on the album Friday Night in America, which is in a variant of this genre whose name is prefixed “new.” The film Bonnie and Clyde popularized a song in this genre (10[1])by a musician whose three-finger picking style (-5[1])supplanted the clawhammer (10[1]-5[1])style. This genre of roots music was founded by Bill Monroe. Earl Scruggs and Béla Fleck played this uptempo genre, whose bands typically include string bass, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and five-string banjo. For 10 points, what genre of Appalachian folk music is named after a plant from Kentucky? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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