Abigail Washburn : (2) " One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world. " - Abigail Washburn " I’m no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don’t really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool. " - Abigail Washburn