So I conducted an interview this past Saturday, I had planned to do another today, but despite my attempts to contact my interlocuter I have gotten no response back.  However, the interview I did with Jason Weiss was very interesting and held a lot of useful information.  Since I still haven't been able to contact my other interlocuter I'm going to have to settle for this interview for now.  I can't figure out how to embed an audio player on blogger so if anyone is interested I've put it up on a website where you can download it if you are interested in hearing it.  While I'm disappointed I won't be able to get my second interview I had talked with him previously about some of the issues in bluegrass and found out some very interesting information, like that Bill Monroe played with a blues guitarist and fiddler by the name of Arnold Schultz who took Monroe with him to gigs and taught him the blues.  As for the interview I did on Saturday, one of the things that I found interesting that Jason told me about was his view of the differences between bluegrass culture here in  San Diego versus bluegrass culture in the South.  Jason said that he felt that here in San Diego that bluegrass was somewhat revered and considered to be special while in the South it was a much more common occurrence and that he felt, in some way, because of this, that here in San Diego bluegrass musicians might lean more towards a traditionalist perspective on bluegrass.   I'm not sure whether that is true or not, but I do know that in the bluegrass community here in San Diego the music is somewhat revered.  Jason also told me that Bill Monroe always called bluegrass 'his music', and he told me about a quote that Bill Monroe said when he was asked about the bluegrass culture and the following it had gathered, 'A man should make his own music.'. 

I've already got some audio and video to use for the upcoming presentation and, while, I don't think I'll use the interview in my presentation it definitely has given me a lot to use and look at.  Here is the link to the website where I've put my interview recording.

https://archive.org/details/STE013