When I was a high school teacher, lo these many years ago, as the school year began to draw to a close members of the senior class would sometimes say, “Let’s start a tradition!” with the idea that they would leave their […]
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Some years ago, a leader of a national band hired a new lead singer, whose voice, energy, and personality soon helped to raise the band’s profile. After a while, the band was developing a larger audience while booking better and […]
There has been a proliferation of music festivals, largely with an emphasis on rootsy music over the past decade or so, especially here in Virginia, from my wife’s and my favorite, the somewhat recent addition to the scene, the Red […]
Bluegrass songs often seem to lie in a realm of nostalgic haze, the memories of days gone by. Somehow we yearn for a day somewhere in the past where things were better, life was simpler, people treated each other with respect […]
I remember the first time I heard Bill Haley’s “Rock around the Clock.” I was visiting old friends on the beach in Westport, Connecticut, which I had moved away from a year or two before to live and go to […]
This is the 16th year for Musicians Against Childhood Cancer to run at Hoover-Y Park in Lochbourne, OH. In 2000, Mandy Adkins died of an aggressive brain stem tumor at the age of 19, after treatment at St. Jude Children’s […]
Unlike his former employer Ralph Stanley, Larry Sparks has never found fame beyond the bluegrass faithful, and he doesn’t have the limited name recognition of a Del McCoury, or even of a J.D. Crowe. He should. The Last Suit You […]
Bluegrass legend Larry Sparks was still in high school when he began his career in 1964, playing guitar with the Stanley Brothers. When lead singer Carter Stanley died two years later, his brother Ralph chose the talented teen as his […]
The bluegrass fold has opened its arms to a sizable number of new fans in recent years. They’ve come in through the back door via acoustic jam bands, popular movie soundtracks, and the media exposure given such acts as Alison […]
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