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Gary Reid

  • A Life of Sorrow Revisited: Gary Reid talks portraying Carter Stanley

    November 11, 2019 | by Lee Zimmerman

    When fans, enthusiasts and historians retrace the history of bluegrass music, it’s often the Stanley Brothers or Ralph Stanley himself that are positioned so prominently. Carter Stanley, Ralph’s older sibling and the other half of the Stanley Brothers pairing, is

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  • Gary Reid taking Carter Stanley to Indianapolis

    August 14, 2019 | by John Lawless

    Folks in and around Indianapolis will have a chance to review some important bluegrass history for a week or so as Gary Reid brings his impressive one man show, A Life of Sorrow, the Life and Times of Carter Stanley, to IndyFringe

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  • The Life and Times of Carter Stanley at Jenny Brook

    June 21, 2017 | by John Lawless

    This weekend's Jenny Brook Bluegrass festival in Tunbridge, VT is trying something interesting and new this year. They will be including Gary Reid's one man show, A Life of Sorrow, the Life and Times of Carter Stanley, as part of

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  • Association for Recorded Sound Collections award to Gary Reid

    November 3, 2016 | by John Lawless

    Gary B. Reid has been given the Best Discography award by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections for his 2015 release, The Music of the Stanley Brothers, published by the University of Illinois Press. The award was given in the Association's Best Historical Research

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  • The Long Road to Carter Stanley’s final performance

    October 6, 2016 | by Guest Contributor

    Gary Reid has shared this detailed remembrance of Carter Stanley's last show on October 21, 1966, to which we alluded yesterday. Here he provides some historical perspective on the upcoming 50th anniversary of Carter Stanley's passing, and that final performance with The

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  • On This Day #48 – Gary Reid

    October 2, 2016 | by Richard Thompson

    On October 2, 1956, Gary B. Reid was born in Olney, Maryland. He spent all of his formative years in Silver Spring, Maryland, graduating from high school and working in a bank there, in Ashton Maryland, and in Burtonsville, Maryland. As he

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  • A Life of Sorrow in Arizona 

    February 4, 2016 | by Richard Thompson

    “Ask me about the Stanley Brothers." That is the legend on the pocket of Gary Reid’s crisp, white shirt. So, did the Stanley Brothers do any shows in Arizona? Regardless of the answer, Reid, a Stanley Brothers enthusiast since his teenage years,

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  • Gary Reid working on Carter Stanley bio

    August 19, 2015 | by John Lawless

    With a pair of nominations for the 2015 IBMA Print/Media Person of the Year in hand, Gary Reid is moving ahead with yet another book project that is sure to be welcomed by the bluegrass reading public. His nomination this year

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  • The Music of the Stanley Brothers – Gary B Reid

    March 2, 2015 | by Richard Thompson

    I have to declare upfront that I had a peek at an early draft of this book. Also, over the years (from about 1981), I have watched Reid gather together the building materials that have gone towards the writing of The Music

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  • The Bluegrass Hall of Fame – Inductee Biographies 1991-2014

    February 9, 2015 | by Richard Thompson

    Every year since 1991 the IBMA initiates the induction of deserving personnel into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame (first called the Hall of Honor). The Hall of Fame is situated in the Owensboro, Kentucky-based International Bluegrass Music Museum and

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