Peter Rowan

From his website ...
"For a long time, people didn't know what to do with him. But now the times have caught up with him - there's a Peter Rowan renaissance.

A follower of Tibetan Buddhism, Rowan is well-traveled and well-schooled. He compares Bill Monroe and his pioneering music to the nature poets and painters of the seventh-century Chinese Tang dynasty, who similarly evoked the 'high lonesomeness' that he says is at the heart of Monroe and bluegrass."

I'm listening to this right now.