Author: Dick Bowden

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Old Foggies Rejoice! A Tribute to Fiddlin’ Paul Warren Vol. 2

This CD is for the old timers—unapologetic “old school” traditionalists. My people… Us “old foggies” know the locomotive sound and feel…

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