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  • My Lucky Life at Silver Dollar City by D. A. Callaway

    April 12, 2023 | by John Lawless

    D. A. Callaway - photo by Kaitlyn McConnell/Ozarks Alive For generations people have responded, often in jest, to the question, "What are you going to do now that you've retired?", with, "I don't know... I guess I'll write my memoirs." Of course,

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  • On Banjo – Recollections, Licks, and Solos by Ben Eldridge

    March 31, 2023 | by John Lawless

    Talk about a long time in coming... A book about the banjo music of Ben Eldridge is a great many years overdue. Since 1970, he has been among the most influential banjo pickers in the bluegrass world, through many years as

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  • On The Bus with Bill Monroe: My Five-Year Ride with the Father of Blue Grass – Mark Hembree

    May 18, 2022 | by Braeden Paul

    Over the last few decades there have been several books written about the Father of Bluegrass. While some such as Tom Ewing's Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man dive deep into Monroe's life journey, others

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  • The Complete Tune Playing Toolkit for 5-String Banjo

    February 22, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Mel Bay Publications' latest banjo instruction manual is one that any serious three finger player could benefit from adding to their collection. The title is quite a mouthful, The Complete Tune Playing Toolkit for 5-String Banjo - A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering

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  • The Earl Scruggs Banjo Songbook

    May 27, 2021 | by John Lawless

    We finally got our hands on a copy of the new Earl Scruggs Banjo Songbook from Hal Leonard, which will surely have a place on the bookshelf of every serious banjo player or student worldwide. At least all who have

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  • Speed Bumps On A Dirt Road – John Cohen

    September 10, 2019 | by John Lawless

    Most fans of old time and early bluegrass music know John Cohen as a musician, and a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, with whom he toured from 1958 until 2008. Their 20 albums of traditional and contemporary

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  • Pete Wernick’s JAM Songbook

    February 25, 2019 | by John Lawless

     Pete Wernick has given a great deal to the banjo and bluegrass communities over the course of his lengthy career. The author of several top-selling instructional books for banjo, he was also a founding member of Hot Rize, and the

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  • Don’t Give Your Heart to a Rambler – Barbara Martin Stephens

    August 9, 2018 | by Richard Thompson

    Author Barbara Martin Stephens was the common-law wife of Jimmy Martin, much troubled bluegrass star of the 1950s onwards.   Her personal story, Don’t Give Your Heart to a Rambler: My Life with Jimmy Martin, the King of Bluegrass, relates the

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  • Bill Clifton: America’s Bluegrass Ambassador to the World – a review

    November 8, 2017 | by Richard Thompson

    I have had to think long and hard about what to say about the recent Bill Clifton biography, America's Bluegrass Ambassador to the World, by Bill C Malone. In many respects it is a perfectly acceptable biography, scholarly, yet quite readable. However,

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  • Onwards – Mile Twelve

    October 30, 2017 | by John Lawless

    We've written a good bit about Mile Twelve in recent months. The Boston-based group has been making noise in bluegrass with their virtuosic approach to the music, clever songwriting and arrangements, a nose-to-the-grindstone attitude, and a youthful energy that appeals

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