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  • Ask a bluegrass legend – a special Halloween video

    October 29, 2021 | by John Lawless

    As we head into the Halloween weekend, with all the little ones preparing to scare us out of our boots with their spooky costumes, we've put together a very special video for your entertainment and edification. We have contacted a legitimate

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  • Jimmy Martin’s Tennessee home demolished (updated)

    June 9, 2021 | by John Lawless

    Jimmy Martin's home in Hermitage, TN, where he lived for 40 years until the end of his life, was recently demolished. Many of his friends in Nashville will recall visiting him here, as will those who traveled to Hermitage to

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  • Bill Torbert passes

    October 30, 2020 | by Guest Contributor

    Bill Torbert Jr, former member of Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, passed away on Saturday, October 24, 2020 after contracting COVID-19 in a nursing home at the age of 81. Born in Washington, DC and raised in DC and Maryland, he

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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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  • Special tributes to be featured at Jenny Brook 2018

    April 12, 2018 | by John Lawless

    Special tributes to bygone bluegrass stars are on the docket at the 2018 Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival in Tunbridge, VT. Three stage shows are scheduled to honor iconic artists, along with a book signing and interview session. Jimmy Martin gets the

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  • Yesterday’s Wine talks with Barbara Martin Stephens

    March 20, 2018 | by John Lawless

    Nadia Ramlagan interviewed Barbara Martin Stephens for her most recent edition of the Yesterday's Wine podcast. They spoke at length about Barbara's book, Don't Give Your Heart To A Rambler, where she tells her story of living and working with

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  • Facebook live Q&A with Barbara Martin at SPBGMA tonight

    February 2, 2018 | by John Lawless

    The Nashville chapter of The Handsome Ladies are hosting a live question and answer sessions this evening with Barbara Martin Stephens, author of Don't Give Your Heart To A Rambler - My Life with Jimmy Martin, The King of Bluegrass.

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  • Bluegrass playlist for the 4th of July

    July 4, 2017 | by John Curtis Goad

    As those of us in the United States celebrate Independence Day today, what better music to accompany our cookouts and fireworks than bluegrass? Nothing goes with the rockets’ red glare and bombs bursting in air quite like the ring of

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  • Don’t Give Your Heart to a Rambler: My Life with Jimmy Martin, the King of Bluegrass

    May 25, 2017 | by John Curtis Goad

    Jimmy Martin is one of the few bluegrass artists who was probably known as much for his personality as he was for his music. His stubborn, no-holds-barred attitude and tendency to speak his mind – loudly - to whoever would

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  • On This Day #39 – Jimmy Martin

    May 14, 2015 | by Richard Thompson

    On This Day  … On May 14, 2005, Jimmy Martin passed away. Ten years ago today, James Henry Martin passed away in Nashville, Tennessee, having been diagnosed with bladder cancer over a year earlier. He was aged 77. The Toronto Star called him "one of

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