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Author: Chris Smith

  • 2022 Keith Whitley Memorial Ride

    June 21, 2022 | by Chris Smith

    2022 is going to be a big year for a man who left us much too soon, but left a musical legacy that will last for generations to come. Keith Whitley received the highest honor a country music singer can accomplish earlier

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  • Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys Live at the Greenwich Coonhunters Club

    August 18, 2021 | by Chris Smith

    A brand new CD from Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys in 1982 was released last weekend at the Coal Miner Appreciation Festival in McClure, VA at the Hills of Home. This show was from my personal, private collection

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  • Michigan’s 2021 Marshall Bluegrass Festival

    August 4, 2021 | by Chris Smith

    The 2021 Marshall Bluegrass Festival in Marshall, MI was a huge success! Held every year the last full weekend of July, Jeremie Cole, his fiance Alexus Ross, and the whole squad of family and volunteers make sure there is never

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  • Against all odds – SamJam 2020

    September 14, 2020 | by Chris Smith

    2020 has been a devastating year for bluegrass festivals, entertainers, and promoters, just to mention a few in the industry. With COVID-19 taking its toll on our great music, deep in southern Ohio, on the edge of Appalachia, Pike County

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  • 2020 CamFest at Mandolin Farms goes on as scheduled

    August 12, 2020 | by Chris Smith

    We had a bluegrass festival!  Since March of this year, and the invasion of COVID-19, bluegrass events and festivals have been all but silenced. Some are having private events and small gatherings, but the places many of us call home for

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  • 30th Annual Keith Whitley Memorial Ride – Happy Birthday Keith

    July 1, 2020 | by Chris Smith

    The 30th Annual Keith Whitley Memorial Ride was held this past weekend in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. The tradition started in 1990, one year after Keith's passing, when a group of Keith's friends and fans decided to ride their motorcycles from Keith's

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  • Bluegrass in the Bluegrass… and Red Slipper Lounge J.D. Crowe follow up

    March 6, 2020 | by Chris Smith

    What a memorable weekend in Lexington! The first annual Bluegrass in the Bluegrass, held at the Clarion Hotel and hosted by SamJam and Rudyfest, left everyone who attended in complete shock. Sammy Karr, Rick Greene, Leroy Walker, Vic Adams, Rudy

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  • The life, legacy, and untimely death of Roy Lee Centers

    January 28, 2020 | by Chris Smith

    In late January, my wife and I made our way to Jackson, Kentucky. I wanted to get to the bottom of what really happened the morning of May 2, 1974, and dispel what I knew were mistruths in a 2003

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  • 30th annual Bluegrass in Superclass

    January 14, 2020 | by Chris Smith

    The 30th annual Bluegrass in Super Class saw its first year at a new location. Previously held at the French Quarter Holiday Inn, in Perrysburg, Ohio, it was moved this year to the beautiful Maumee Bay Lodge State Park due

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  • Bluegrass returns to the Red Slipper Lounge in Lexington

    December 6, 2019 | by Chris Smith

    February 28-29, 2020 will see the return of bluegrass to the former home of The Red Slipper Lounge in Lexington, Kentucky. A weekend of bluegrass in the bluegrass. The name Red Slipper Lounge may not strike a ring with some folks,

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