Bill Monroe once said in an interview with George Gruhn: “Bluegrass is a pure music. You follow the melody right, and you don’t put in no hot, know-it-all fiddle that don’t belong in there” (Ewing 2006, p. 195). Bluegrass music […]
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This week’s DJ is another Northern Californian, more specifically from the heart of Silicon Valley, Joe Hnilo. I have this vision of a bunch of Google or Apple nerds tapping their toes to some bluegrass while they invent the next […]
Christmas is a joyful time for many, but the season’s short days and long, cold nights can cause difficulties as well. This is the time when most Christians have chosen to place the celebration of the birth of the central source […]
Some years ago at a bluegrass festival held in a cow pasture in Florida, the band Nothin’ Fancy seemed tired and listless after their first set. We were pretty new to bluegrass, but Irene, my wife of now 52 years, […]
Special to the Wheeling Daily Register, Jan. 20, 1894: WILD E, W. Va., January 19. – John Hardy, for killing Thomas Drews, both colored, was hung at 2:09 p.m. to-day. Three thousand people witnessed his death. His neck was broken and […]
Just about 70 years ago today, December 8, 1945, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs first stepped on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, and a storm erupted. For years, Bill Monroe had been […]
More than a couple of live recordings of Bill Monroe are available, and probably more are on the way. For now, though, this 1963 disc — recorded by a young David Grisman in Worcester, Massachusetts — is the one to […]
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