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Akira Otsuka

  • Akira Otsuka’s photos of The Country Gentlemen circa late 1970s

    August 16, 2022 | by Guest Contributor

    Charlie Waller recording with The Country Gentlemen at Track Recorders - photo © Akira Otsuka Here is another gallery of photos Akira Otsuka took at Track Recorders in Silver Spring, MD during the late 1970s. These are of the Country Gentlemen tracking

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  • Akira Otsuka’s 1978 photos of Southbound in the studio

    June 24, 2022 | by Guest Contributor

    Southbound at The Birchmere circa 1979 - photo © Akira Otsuka Akira Otsuka, noted bluegrass mandolinist and photographer, has shared another of his archival photo galleries with us. This time we have his images taken in 1978 of Southbound recording at

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  • Akira Otsuka’s photos of The Shuffler Family in the studio, circa 1977

    June 13, 2022 | by Guest Contributor

    Deb Shuffler Corley, Jennie Shuffler Brittain and George Shuffler at Track Recorders - photo © Akira Otsuka Akira Otsuka has shared another of his galleries of archived photographs from the 1970s, this time of George Shuffler and his family recording at

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  • Akira Otsuka’s photos from Jimmy Arnold Guitar sessions

    June 3, 2022 | by Guest Contributor

    Here is another gallery of archival photos taken by Akira Otsuka, this time during the recording sessions for Jimmy Arnold's Guitar album for Rebel Records. Arnold was a bluegrass musician of unusual virtuosity, who blazed like a supernova over a short-lived

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  • Bill Harrell & The Virginians photos from the late 1970s

    May 24, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Many bluegrass lovers know Akira Otsuka as a brilliant mandolinist, something he has pursued from the time he was a young man in Japan, through his later life here in the United States. Fewer know that he is also a

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  • Tsutomu Otsuka’s photos of Ralph Stanley in Japan, 1971

    April 30, 2021 | by John Lawless

    Ralph Stanley, Jack Cooke, and Roy Lee Centers in Japan (1971) - photo © Tsutomu Otsuka Fred Robbins has added another valuable collection of historic photographs to his online archive. This latest is a series of images from the 1971 visit to

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  • Classic festival photos from Akira Otsuka shared online

    March 18, 2021 | by John Lawless

    Boone Creek at Watermelon Park in Berryville, VA 1977 - photo © Akira Otsuka Fred Robbins, one of the premier archivists in bluegrass music, has added a collection of photos taken by Akira Otsuka to his vast online repository of images

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  • Bluegrass Stories podcast launches with Katy Daley and friends

    April 9, 2019 | by John Lawless

    What immediately follows when a group of retired friends get together? They start telling stories, of course. And if they have worked a full life in and around bluegrass, they will be bluegrass stories. If one of them is a recognized

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  • Bluegrass Beyond Borders: Bluegrass 45

    December 27, 2018 | by Lee Zimmerman

    Bluegrass 45 Reunion at the 2017 IBMA Wide Open Bluegrass festival - photo by Frank Baker It’s a well established fact that the Japanese have long been avowed fans of American music. Akira Otsuka can attest to that firsthand. Born in

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  • Back Home At Christmas Time from Epilogue

    December 10, 2018 | by Guest Contributor

    This remembrance from the recording of Epilogue: a Tribute to John Duffey comes from Akira Otsuka. Together with Ronnie Freeland, he spent 15 years recording this loving tribute to a bluegrass legend, who was also a dear friend to Akira. It is

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