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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There’s a thin, blurry line between bluegrass and country music, and Jim & Jesse McReynolds are among a handful of artists to find success on both sides of that line. They became members of the Grand Ole Opry — along […]
Way back in 1972, when such things were almost unheard of, Jim & Jesse McReynolds started their own independent record label, Old Dominion. The duo had spent the 1960s recording for Epic; over the course of the decade, producers had […]
When the rock ‘n’ roll boom hit country music in the late 1950s, some of the hardest-hit victims were among the first generation of bluegrass musicians. Pushed to the sidelines by their failure either to rock like Elvis or croon […]
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