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    Bluegrass 45
    Tgunsher Posted On December 12, 2017


    Showing off a sweet guitar at IBMA


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    Japanese Band Bluegrass 45 Celebrates 50 Years
    Ted Lehmann Posted On August 30, 2017


    The Japanese bluegrass band Bluegrass 45 will be making a 50th anniversary appearance at the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Wide Open Bluegrass in Raleigh, NC, next month. Recently, my wife and I sat down with Akira Otsuka, mandolin player with this groundbreaking international band.  In […]


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    Land of the Rising Sound
    Denis Gainty Posted On March 28, 2017


    EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article appeared in our Spring 2016: Roots & Branches issue of No Depression in print. Its author, Denis Gainty, was working on a book about the history of bluegrass music in Japan, and contributed another related article to […]


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