Genius has within it the seeds of its own destruction. Bill Monroe labored for years to find and develop a musical sound he heard in his head. He experimented throughout his sojourn in the industrial necklace around the Great Lakes […]
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Sister Sadie, a five-member super band composed of premier performers from across the bluegrass spectrum, first came together as what looked like something of a lark for a “one-off” show at the Station Inn in Nashville. The Station Inn’s history dates […]
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 […]
I woke up this morning around 3 a.m. with a four-day trip facing me, a deadline for this column, and … no ideas. The New England winter we use as an excuse to go to Florida for a couple of months […]
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 […]
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