Where did the term Bluegrass come from?

Bluegrass originated when songwriter, Bill Monroe, changed the beat and altered the instrumentation of traditional country music. Being from Kentucky, also known as the bluegrass state, Monroe named this new style of country music "Bluegrass" after his band The Blue Grass Boys. As his band became more well known, so did Bluegrass music.

Bluegrass music originated in the Kentucky area where a grass grows called "Kentucky Bluegrass" or "Smooth Meadow-grass.

Looked this up on answers. Com - "Origin: 1750 In New England in the mid-eighteenth century, bluegrass was considered a nuisance. In his book Field-Husbandry, published in 1751, Jared Eliot insisted that "The Land that you would improve this way, must be intirely free from Blue Grass, called by some Dutch Grass, or Wire Grass."

To the west, however, it looked better. "All the Way from the Shannoah Town to this Place," wrote Christopher Gist of Pennsylvania in that same year, is "full of beautiful natural Meadows, covered with wild Rye, blue Grass and Clover. " It remained for Kentucky to bring bluegrass to full flower, however.

The place where bluegrass grows best has been known since the nineteenth century as the Bluegrass State. In the mid-twentieth century, bluegrass became even more famous as the name for a kind of music invented and cultivated in that part of the country.

The etymology of the word "motorboat" comes from the same place the word "motorbike" or "motorcar" comes from. You have a bicycle..... . You add a motor... you get a "motorbike".

Motor + bike = motorbike! In the case of a boat. You have a sailboat..... you add a motor..... you don't need sails anymore..... so you get a "motorboat".

You HAD a "sailboat".... but now you have a "motorboat". Motor + boat = motorboat Simple math really.

Why, it was named after the first motorboator's sound effects, of course "Bbbbdddrdrdrdrrrrrrr.

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