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Category: Reviews
Lonesome Melodies: A Review
The level of excitement peaks when anticipating a book about one of the elite members of our bluegrass community. Such was the case when there was news of the completion of David W. Johnson’s book about the Stanley Brothers, Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music [...]
Two new mandolin books from Mel Bay
Mel Bay has a pair of new mandolin books, aimed at two different strata of pickers. Children’s Mandolin Method, written by William Bay (son of the company’s founder, Mel) is just what the title suggests. It follows the familiar method book template, starting with simple [...]
Blue Yodel #51 – Bluegrass Bluesman
I spent yesterday with Josh Graves by reading Bluegrass Bluesman: Josh Graves A Memoir, a collection of transcribed interviews given in the ’90s by the resonator guitar master. Expertly edited by Fred Bartenstein with help from a lot of good folks, which I’ll come back [...]
Bean Blossom – a first-timer’s visit
When I was learning to play banjo in the mid-1970′s, one of the first albums I bought was the two-album live recording from the Bill Monroe’s Bean Blossom festival, which became one of my favorites and a great source of material to learn from Bill [...]
Bean Blossom – a second look
Bean Blossom, that place of many legends that has attracted bluegrass fans from so many territories world-wide, that has two internationally-distributed LPs that bear its name and yet about which so little of its history has been known for so long. That is, until now, [...]
The Starday Story
Just as the rock ‘n’ roll era dawned and country music and its off-spring bluegrass music was being overwhelmed by the popularity of this new musical style, a savior appeared in the form of Don Pierce and his recent acquisition, Starday Records. Starday Records was [...]
Crowe on the Banjo
From receiving his first banjo as a Christmas present at the age of 13 to his IBMA Hall of Fame Induction in 2003, very few people have made as big an impact on a musical genre as J.D. Crowe has had on bluegrass. The recent [...]
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