Your Questions About Bluegrass Musicians Wanted

OMG song advice plz… recommendations for good music, anyone?

This is one of those obnoxious and instantly stigmatizing questions wherein I ask complete strangers for suggestions of musicians/groups that I might like. However I have found myself at that unfortunate position and without enough pride to keep me from asking for some Yahoo! Answers advice. This is at the same time that I am looking through music sites and a variety of music suggestion recommenders (like Pandora and last.fm’s features). The basic problem is that while there’s plenty of good music in my library, I find myself feeling like it’s not quite what I’m in the mood for right now, and it seems a little stale. Here’s the inevitable list of guidelines that attempt to illustrate breadth, depth, and a little bit of eccentricity but in fact are painfully mainstream: