One of the chief rules of stage performance, going back to the vaudeville days, is that you never want to follow an animal or a kid act. We don't get many animal acts in bluegrass, but cute kids have been a
Everett Lilly
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Early Morning Storytelling at World of Bluegrass
One of the special features of this year’s IBMA World of Bluegrass event in Nashville next week - Monday, September 24 to Thursday, September 27 – is the early morning Storytelling Sessions, each of them remembering one of bluegrass music’s
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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 as I did, we heard a lot about the Lilly Brothers, and I was fortunate enough to see them perform
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My Bluegrass Town – Everett Lilly interview
Many thanks to West Virginia author Betty Dotson-Lewis, who has agreed to let us share her 2007 interview with Everett Lilly as a remembrance of his passing yesterday. It is excerpted from her book, The Sunny Side of Appalachia: Bluegrass from the
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Everett Lilly passes
Bluegrass has lost another pioneer. Everett Lilly, who played with Flatt & Scruggs but is best known for joining his brother Bea, Tex Logan and Don Stover in the Lilly Brothers, died today, his son Everett announced in an email to
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The Sunny Side Of Appalachia
West Virginia author B. L. Dotson-Lewis has published her third book on the people and culture of the Appalachian region. The Sunny Side of Appalachia: Bluegrass from the Grassroots traces the early days of the music through first person