Lindsay Lou

Pushing The Boundaries Of Bluegrass Photos By Scott Simontacchi A modern day pioneer consistently pushing the boundaries of bluegrass, Lindsay Lou‘s music is truly ahead of the times, but she isn’t the first in her family to push the limits. Lou’s “radical grandmother,” Nancy Timbrook, a hard-working mother of eight was working as a school teacher in Detroit in 1969 when she ran into some trouble.  While trying to educate her students, who were overusing a curse word, on its significance and meaning — in the hopes of teaching them to not throw it around casually — she spent a night in jail because she had written the word on the black board.  The event was even the subject of a Time Magazine story titled “Obscenity: The English Lesson.” When her tactics were questioned,  Timbrook defended herself by saying, “That's what I was trying to teach—that it was indecent and immoral.”   This incident  is something t