Where do you find a 13-year-old boy, an anthropologist, an international videographer, an international trade consultant and a bi-lingual homemaker?

They’re all in a bluegrass band performing at The Biscuit King Café on County Road 24, near the intersection of Highway 181, south of Fairhope.

You will find other country singers with varied occupations and credentials in Baldwin County, but here on Thursday nights, you’ll treat yourself to at least one cultural element of your past.

Bluegrass roots are deep and wide: they have a spread like kudzu and pampas grass, and some gardener or farmer can give you a better comparison.

But, it was William Smith “Bill” Monroe from Rosine, Ky. who put the moniker on a family of music originating in Scotland and Ireland, that was transported and translated into Appalachian twang and then branched off into jazz (some think jazz has its own birth and family) and the blues.

Originally a Southeastern phenomenon, bluegrass now has pockets of popularity throughout the U.S. and in locales as diverse as the Czech Republic and Japan. Why not?

There’s country in all of us, and mountain people are mountain people around the world, then there are desert people, plains people, forest people … You get the drift.

Look around you when attending shows at Biscuit King. There are farmers, engineers, agents and retailers — men, women and children, all reaching back into fading cultures and wiping an occasional tear away.

And you will get involved. Willie and Nancy Foster are the proprietors, and Willie has an engaging personality, and is a born leader and promoter while Nancy is efficient about the property with a knowing smile.

This family band, The McPhersons, is technically and expansively talented. They have just the basic instruments and a modest amplification.

Banjo, acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar, mandolin and upright bass round out the inventory.

One of their selections will plunge into your subconscious and elevate your spirit. Have you heard “Rainbow in the Sky” or  “Over in the Glory Land” or “Redwing?”

After a Scruggs “Foggy Mountain Breakdown,” you may be startled to hear Peter, Paul and Mary’s “I’m  Leavin’ on a Jet Plane” followed by “When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder.”

Their repertoire is much more extensive than described here and Seth’s tenor rivals the Irish and the Scots in the “high lonesome” range.

Even if your cultural roots don’t surface, you’ll remember movies you’ve seen such as “O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” “Deliverance” and “Bonnie and Clyde.”

So, go to The Biscuit King.