Still not sure what this bluegrass thing is all about?
Most folks unfamiliar with the genre got a heapin’ helpin’ of this Appalachian mountain music courtesy of the Coen Brothers’ 2000 dramedy film O Brother, Where Art Thou? That painfully funny vehicle deftly interwove all manner of traditional, bluegrass-related acoustic tunes into its storyline—and its soundtrack.

If you wanna dig a little deeper into the bluegrass canon, here—in no particular order—is a list of five albums you simply can’t go wrong with:

1. The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys: The Complete Mercury Recordings
2. Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys: Off The Record, Vol. 1: Live Recordings, 1956-1969
3. Vassar Clements with Tony Rice & The Low Country All-Star Band
4. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver: He Lives in Me
5. The Del McCoury Band: The Company We Keep