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Author: John Curtis Goad

  • Stanley Brothers ineligible for Country Music Hall of Fame in ’17

    February 24, 2017 | by John Curtis Goad

    Every year around this time, rumors and wishes start flying through the country music industry. Who will be the current year’s inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame? Each year, one artist from the modern era, one veteran artist,

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  • The Bluegrass Music Heritage of Southwestern Ohio

    February 23, 2017 | by John Curtis Goad

    We often think of bluegrass music as an old genre, even though it “officially” didn’t begin until the mid-1940s. However, we’re fortunate it began to grow and flourish in a time when technology was booming, allowing our parents and grandparents

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  • Made To Move – Chris Jones & the Night Drivers

    February 17, 2017 | by John Curtis Goad

    My favorite term to use when I’m talking about Chris Jones & the Night Drivers is “classy-grass.” The group’s music is smooth and tasteful, featuring some of the best, most thoughtful songwriting of almost any current bluegrass group. You’re not

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  • Special Merit Grammy Awards for Jimmie Rodgers and Ralph Peer

    February 13, 2017 | by John Curtis Goad

    Jimmie Rodgers and Ralph Peer with their wives, and Jimmie's daughter Anita, circa 1930 - Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum The O’Connor Band took home the big bluegrass award yesterday at the 2017 Grammy Awards, but two other people

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  • Song Of The Mountains to be Virginia’s official TV series

    February 10, 2017 | by John Curtis Goad

    While there are several current television shows featuring live bluegrass music, including Bluegrass Underground and a number of programs on RFD-TV, one of the most popular is surely Song of the Mountains, the monthly concert series at Marion, Virginia’s Lincoln

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  • The return of Hee Haw to network TV?

    February 7, 2017 | by John Curtis Goad

    Four or five decades ago, bluegrass and country music could be found on television almost every night of the week. From Flatt and Scruggs’ Ballad of Jed Clampett to country music stars caught in Boss Hogg’s speed traps on The

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  • Go see J.D. Crowe’s Banger at IBMM

    February 6, 2017 | by John Curtis Goad

    One of the most famous instruments in the history of bluegrass music is, arguably, the “Banger,” the 1929 Gibson Mastertone played by J.D Crowe on everything from classic Jimmy Martin numbers to the seminal Rounder 0044. A quick Google search

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  • Hanging Tree – Blue Mafia

    February 2, 2017 | by John Curtis Goad

    A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to catch the last few songs of a Blue Mafia show at the Down Home in Johnson City, TN. Though I’d heard the band on the radio plenty of times (their 2015

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  • Feels Like Home – Mary Beth Cross

    January 27, 2017 | by John Curtis Goad

    In today’s music world, where the boundaries between genres are ever blurrier, many artists choose to step outside of their musical comfort zone and record an album in a different style. Sometimes they take a huge leap – Steven Tyler,

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  • Tyler Collins all healed up

    January 27, 2017 | by John Curtis Goad

    In November 2016 we reported that the boys in the Darrell Webb Band had experienced a serious auto crash in route to a number of performances in Florida. Unfortunately, the accident left reso player Tyler Collins hospitalized in Jacksonville for

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