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Bluegrass Calendar returns for 2011
The Bluegrass Calendar is back! After a break this year, Gary Reid at Copper Creek Records has a new calendar for 2011. This 20th anniversary edition features those great Reid favorites, the Stanley Brothers. As usual, there are the birthdates of literally hundreds of bluegrass [...]
Les Woodie signs off
Longtime radio broadcaster and bluegrass fiddler Les Woodie has announced his retirement. After 48 years with WKDE KDCountry in Altavista, VA, Woodie will retire as General Manager on Thursday, November 5. Prior to beginning his radio career, Woodie worked as a musician, performing with The [...]
Review: Man Of Constant Sorrow by Ralph Stanley
Another book I recently finished is Ralph Stanley’s autobiography, Man Of Constant Sorrow: The Life & Times Of A Music Legend. In it, the good Doctor tells the story of his life from dirt poverty in the mountains of southwestern Virginia to the heights of [...]
Rank Stranger enshrined by Library of Congress
The Stanley Brothers’ classic 1960 recording of Rank Stranger has been chosen by The Librarian of Congress as one of the culturally-significant audio recordings to be added to their National Recording Registry for preservation. Each year 25 new pieces of audio are added to the [...]
Benefit show for John Shuffler
We got a note last week from our friend Big Mike Ramsey about an event that many of our readers will want to support. It’s a benefit show scheduled for this weekend (5/9) for John Shuffler, one of the unsung heroes from the early days [...]
The White Dove
Bob Webster, the WAMU/bluegrasscountry presenter of the Sunday morning programme Stained Glass Bluegrass, and regular contributor Richard F Thompson have collaborated to bring this story about the origins of the song The White Dove, the Stanley Brothers’ favourite. An abridged version of the story will appear in a [...]
The Stanley Brothers 50 years ago
In the course of two days just over fifty years ago, the Stanley Brothers began an era that was to last on-and-off right through and beyond Carter Stanley’s premature passing on December 1, 1966. Carter and Ralph along with the Clinch Mountain Boys of the [...]
No School Bus In Heaven – 50 years on
“On Route 23 down in eastern Kentucky…” So begins the mournful song written by Jack Adkins and Buddy Dee, and recorded by the Stanley Brothers in February 1958 at Radio WCYB in Bristol, VA. No School Bus In Heaven was the last official studio recording [...]
Best Loved Bluegrass: 20 All-Time Favorites
Rebel Records has recently announced news of the forthcoming release on March 25 of a various Artists collection entitled Best Loved Bluegrass: 20 All-Time Favorites (REB-8004). The 20 song anthology embraces some of the classic songs in bluegrass music from some of the great acts [...]
Vernon Derrick RIP
Veteran fiddle and mandolin player Vernon Derrick passed away on Friday morning (1/4) at the age of 74. He performed with both The Stanley Brothers and Jimmy Martin during the 1960s after gaining some exposure during a brief stint with Flatt & Scruggs. A memorable [...]
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