John Prine didn’t play bluegrass, but he loved bluegrass music and influenced a generation of bluegrass songwriters and artists, and he indirectly guided one well known artist through a scary medical condition that left her career at risk. So the feeling
Roy Crockett passed away on April 28, 2019, while in the Emogene Dolin Jones Hospice House, in Huntington, West Virginia. He was 91 years old. Born, one of 12 children, on May 22, 1927, in Wayne County, West Virginia, he was
As reported by Bluegrass Today on Thursday, banjo innovator Mike Lilly passed away on February 12, 2020, while in care at Hospice of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. Funeral arrangements are available now and details are as follows … Visitation: The family will receive
Years ending in “9” figure quite prominently in the life of Curly Seckler. John Ray Seckler (or Sechler) was born a few miles north-east of China Grove, Rowan County, North Carolina, in December 1919; in 1949 he joined Lester Flatt, Earl
A large crowd gathered on Monday afternoon inside the music hall of Denton FarmPark, home of the Southeast's Old Threshers' Reunion, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver's Bluegrass Festival, and the Country Christmas Train. They weren't there to be entertained, but came
Eileen Carson Schatz always knew how to throw a party. The one she planned for Monday was one those fortunate enough to attend will talk about for years to come. Eileen died last Wednesday. In her final days, her body ravaged
Singer/songwriter Claire Lynch, with whom John Starling shared a musical collaboration in the country-rock band Ready Section, speaks eloquently about the considerable impact that Starling had on her career. "These are sad days indeed for a gal
John Starling, who possessed one of the most cultured voices in bluegrass music, passed away on Thursday, May 2, 2019 at his Fredericksburg, Virginia, home. From 1971, when the Seldom Scene was formed, to 1977 when he left the band, Starling
Thayer Washer, best known for his time with Connie Gately and Babe Lofton and the Backwoods Boys, passed away on December 12, 2017, at the age of 88. He was a resident of Madison, Tennessee. Thayer Maxwell Washer was born on
Mac Wiseman, among the last of the original era bluegrass artists, passed away on Sunday, February 24, 2019. Born Malcolm Bell Wiseman in Crimora, Virginia, on May 23, 1925, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame
