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Author Archive: Dick Bowden
Dick Bowden is a VERY traditional bluegrass picker and fan from New England, who makes occasional contributions to Bluegrass Today representing the old timers' viewpoints.
Mike Compton at the Towne Crier
Many know Mike Compton from the Nashville Bluegrass Band and John Hartford String Band, or from duet appearances. Many students have taken his mandolin classes. He IS the acknowledged Monroe-style master. When I learned Mike was appearing solo April 21 at the Towne Crier in Pawling [...]
Bob Mavian passes
Sad news from Westchester County NY — Dr. Bob Mavian (aka Gibson Case of the Case Brothers) passed away in hospital Saturday, April 20 surrounded by his family. Bob had recently retired from his long career as a vet. He was known to many in the [...]
Who are these Spinney Brothers anyway?
Just where did Mountain Fever recording artists, leading traditional Canadian bluegrassers and late-night bear hunters The Spinney Brothers come from anyway? 2011 brought these genial Nova Scotians to the attention of traditional bluegrass fans in the USA. Banjoist Rick Spinney makes no bones about it [...]
Farewell to The Colonel
I hated to read on Bluegrass Today that the “Colonel,” Everett Lilly, had passed away. Growing up amidst New England bluegrass as I did, we heard a lot about the Lilly Brothers, and I was fortunate enough to see them perform live a few times at [...]
Meet Me In Yokohama, Mama, Part Ni
No, that’s not a reference to the Knights Who Say “Ni!” – Ni is Japanese for Deux. When we left our intrepid travelers Kelly Stockwell and Paul Millman of Vermont, they were winging their way to Japan on a business trip for Chroma Technology, hoping [...]
Dick Bowden on Earl Scruggs
I grew up way Downeast in Maine surrounded by a country music loving family and friends. In the early 50s. By the time I started school in 1958 I was hearing the sounds of Flatt & Scruggs, Mac Wiseman, Bill Clifton, The Stanley Brothers, the [...]
Meet Me in Yokohama, Mama…
… or, USA’s bass pickin’ Kelly meets Japan’s mandolin pickin’ Shin Some of us folks in the business world do a lot of traveling. For bluegrassers, business travel often spins off into great musical experiences like concerts, jams, vintage instrument stores, festival sites, bluegrass clubs, historical [...]
Mike Armistead, Poster Boy for OTM SHO-CARD
This week readers of the San Francisco Chronicle can enjoy a great bluegrass-oriented feature written by Sam Whiting. The article prominently features two bluegrass art forms that have joined and prospered at an East Bay neighborhood English pub, the Kensington Circus Pub. Locals just call [...]
Hartford’s Sunday Night Firebox Bluegrass Series
From the home of Colt’s Patent Firearms, Mark Twain and America’s insurance industry — Hartford, CT — comes an intimate Sunday afternoon bluegrass club experience at the award-winning Firebox Restaurant. Located at 539 Broad Street, in the shadow of the gold-domed state capitol, The Firebox [...]
Powerful: Bill Monroe Remembered in Boston
Gabrielle Gray, Executive Director of the International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM) in Owensboro KY, made a fund raising visit to the Northeast, showing a clip of IBMM’s documentary film Powerful: Bill Monroe Remembered, in the Boston suburb of Brookline Monday evening Jan. 9 2012. Gabby’s [...]
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