Daley is host of “Bluegrass Country” on WAMU-FM radio in Washington from 7 a.m. until 10 a.m. every weekday and can also be heard on the Internet. When did you first become interested in bluegrass music?

I first heard bluegrass from my father, who used to sing “The Wreck of the Old 97.” I grew up in Okinawa, Japan, listening to the Armed Forces Radio, which included country music and bluegrass, but in those days they didn’t differentiate. I used to listen to the music on a show called “Rice Paddy Round-up.” Then when I came back to the United States, I went to Brevard College in North Carolina, where kids played guitar and clog danced.

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