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On This Day #13 – Gloria Belle
On this day …… June 9 is the birthday of Gloria Belle. Probably best known for being Jimmy Martin’s so-called “girl singer” in the late 1960s and into the 1970s, she played mandolin, guitar and bass at different times as a Sunny Mountain Boy. Born [...]
On This Day #12
On This Day……………………… On May 15, 2002 Ray Park died. Ray Park (guitar and fiddle) is most notable for his partnership with mandolin player Vern Williams. In 1959 they formed a band called the Carroll County Country Boys; the very first bluegrass band in greater [...]
On This Day #11
On This Day ……… On May 9, 1956 Jimmy Martin had his first recording session for Decca Records. At an afternoon session at Bradley Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, Jimmy Martin recorded four songs Before the Sun Goes Down, Skip Hop and Wobble, [...]
On this Day #10 – Live At The Ragged Edge
On March 12, 2002, Tom Adams and Michael Cleveland recorded Live At The Ragged Edge (Rounder 82161-0539-2). Tom Adams (banjo) and Michael Cleveland (fiddle) got together for an evening of live music at the Ragged Edge Coffeehouse in Gettysburg, PA, for what was never intended [...]
On This Day #9 – Earl Taylor
On this day ….. On January 28, 1984, soulful bluegrass singer and mandolin player Earl Taylor died. Earl Taylor was born on June 17, 1929, in rural Rose Hill, Lee County, Virginia. He was the leader of one of the more significant traditional bluegrass bands [...]
On this day #8 – Ballad of Jed Clampett
On this day ….. On this day 50 years ago, January 19, 1963, the Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs’ recording of the Ballad of Jed Clampett topped the Billboard Hot Country singles charts. The song spent 20 weeks on the charts and was in the [...]
On This Day # 7
On this day in 1923 …… January 10, 1923, Curly Ray Cline was born. Had he lived, the extrovert Curly Ray Cline would have been 90 years old today. Born in Pike County, Kentucky, Cline was inspired to play the fiddle by hearing Fiddlin’ Arthur [...]
On this Day #6 – Angelika Torrie
On this day in 1968 ………. On November 6, 1968, Angelika Torrie was born. The long-time treasurer of the European Bluegrass Music Association (EBMA), was born and raised in Dornach, near Basel, Switzerland. She grew up in an environment where classical music was important. At [...]
On This Day #5
On this day in 1967 …… On December 25, 1967, the Osborne Brothers’ recording of Rocky Top was released. Recorded on November 16, 1967, Rocky Top was the second of three songs cut during an afternoon session at Bradley’s Barn, Mount Juliet, Tennessee. The other [...]
On This Day #4: The Traditional Grass
On this day in 1983 …… On December 5, 1983, The Traditional Grass was formed. Joe Mullins, banjo player for The Traditional Grass, retells the history of the group ….. “We worked a Flea Market in downtown Dayton, Ohio, and it was a live broadcast [...]
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