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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The International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass and Wide Open Bluegrass will return to Raleigh, NC, for its fifth year from September 26 – 30, 2017. As always, it includes a business conference, the awards show, and a two-day free […]
Memory is a strange and wonderful artifact. When I was a teacher, students who were seniors referred to school habits as traditions, though much of what they referred to this way had just been initiated when they were in middle school. Family […]
I’ve known Brad Hunt for many years and he always seems happy and usually has an amusing story to share. I always remember and love that he accepted an Americana Music Award for Sonny Landreth, walking to the podium in […]
By the time Folkways Records released the first full-length Country Gentlemen LP in the summer of 1960, the group had already recorded several 45 rpm singles for Starday. All of those early tracks — plus six previously unissued tunes — […]
In one of the booklet photos, the Country Gentlemen are posed aboard ski-lift cars, instruments in tow, comic effect courtesy of Tom Gray’s ungainly upright bass. It’s a shot more reminiscent of the Kingston Trio than Flatt & Scruggs, and […]
Though the urban folk revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s provided an audience for some of the first generation of bluegrass musicians — Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, and the Stanley Brothers, for starters — it didn’t provide […]
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