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Jack Tottle

  • Jack Tottle, Kenny Chesney receive honorary doctorates from ETSU

    October 24, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Jack Tottle accepts his honorary doctorate from Kenny Chesney and Brian Nolan - photo by Larry Smith, ETSU This past weekend, the Bluegrass, Old-Time and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City celebrated its 40th anniversary by

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  • Jack Tottle responds to Chris Thile in The Washington Post

    June 15, 2021 | by Jack Tottle

    Jack Tottle has shared his comments to a Washington Post article from last weekend, a partial transcription of an Instagram Live interview with Chris Thile. We start with something Chris said in the interview, followed by Jack's response. ------------- Recently, Edgers chatted

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  • Jack Tottle channels Bob Dylan with Everybody Must Get Masked

    June 11, 2020 | by Jack Tottle

    I came across comments about COVID protective mask-wearing from two of my greatest musical heroes, Dolly Parton and Sonny Osborne. BE SAFE, BE RESPECTFUL, WEAR YOUR MASK, LEAD WITH LOVE Dolly Parton -  From her recent video, When Life Is Good Again YOU ALL STAY SAFE,

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  • Another song from the mind of Jack Tottle

    May 14, 2020 | by Guest Contributor

    Jack Tottle at The Pickin' Porch in Bristol, TN (6/5/13) - photo by Dan Krill This entertaining yarn is a contribution from Jack Tottle. Now retired, Jack was the founder of the bluegrass music program at ETSU, and the author of

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  • Bluegrass motivation from Jack Tottle in Hawaii

    April 30, 2020 | by Guest Contributor

    Jack Tottle (far right) with friends picking on his porch on the Big Island Chris Wejrowski, Anne Pontius, Jim Blue, Phyllis Erck, Forrest Arnold, Jack Tottle This bit of practice motivation for bluegrass pickers comes from Jack Tottle, founder and Professor Emeritus

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  • Jack Tottle shares some lyrics for our time

    April 24, 2020 | by Guest Contributor

    The following comes to us from Jack Tottle, Professor Emeritus, and founder of the East Tennessee State University Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music Program. Although retired for several years, Jack continues his work to preserve the memories of bluegrass

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  • ETSU faculty responds to No Depression article

    July 7, 2017 | by John Lawless

    One of the longstanding traditions of artistic and literary publications is friendly - and at times, not-so-friendly - debates about matters that concern practitioners and connoisseurs of the arts. In the hey day of British literary magazines, it was quite

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  • Tony Trischka and “The Green Flash Banjo” Illuminate Hilo, Hawaii

    March 21, 2016 | by Guest Contributor

    This review of a recent Tony Trischka concert is a contribution from Jack Tottle. When Tony Trischka steps into the spotlight at the East Hawaii Cultural Center in Hilo, Hawaii, the first thing that grabs the audience is his banjo. The entire length

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  • Takeharu Kunimoto – An Appreciation

    February 24, 2016 | by Guest Contributor

    This memorial appreciation is a contribution from Jack Tottle, Associate Professor Emeritus at East Tennessee State University. It is used by permission from Moonshiner magazine (JAPAN), originally published—in Japanese translation—February, 2016. Takeharu Kunimoto was among the most unusual, gifted, energetic and hard-working individuals I’ve

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