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John Duffey

  • Seldom Scene’s new logo looks back with fondness

    May 19, 2023 | by John Lawless

    The Seldom Scene has revealed a new band logo, one that recalls the great John Duffey, who helped found the group in 1971, and played mandolin and sang until his passing in 1996. John had a special fondness for his whiskey

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  • John Duffey’s Bluegrass Life: Featuring the Country Gentlemen, Seldom Scene, and Washington DC 

    March 29, 2019 | by Richard Thompson

    John Duffey is one of the biggest characters in the 70-year history of bluegrass music, larger than life; physically imposing with a voice that covers the whole range required for the four standard vocal parts, and a style of mandolin

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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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  • Epilogue: A Tribute to John Duffey

    June 22, 2018 | by David Morris

    It’s early to start thinking about the 2019 IBMA awards, given that the finalists for this year haven’t been selected yet. But I already have a frontrunner for next year’s recorded event of the year, the award that goes to a

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  • Epilogue: Tribute to John Duffey

    June 8, 2018 | by Richard Thompson

    Well over 20 years after John Duffey’s passing in December 1996 he continues to be revered. And thanks to Sugar Hill Records (in 2000) with Always in Style: A Classic Collection and Rebel Records (in 2011) with Rebel Years: 1962-1977

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  • Q&A with Katy Daley – Missy Raines

    December 11, 2017 | by Katy Daley

    Last month, I was taken by a photo on Missy Raines' Facebook page showing her playing bass onstage at the Birchmere while John Duffey leaned in and chopped mandolin. They say a picture is worth a thousand words but a

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  • Akira Otsuka talks John Duffey’s mandolins

    August 29, 2017 | by Katy Daley

    Akira Otsuka with John Duffey's F-12 - photo by Michael G. Stewart American bluegrass audiences became aware of Akira Otsuka during Bluegrass 45’s first U.S. tour in 1971. Bluegrass 45 will celebrate their 50th anniversary by playing the Red Hat Amphitheater

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  • Don’t Give Up Your Day Job – a Quiz

    May 28, 2014 | by Richard Thompson

    From the very beginning playing bluegrass music has been a very precarious job, even for the very, very talented. Bill Monroe worked at Sinclair Oil in the 1930s; Kenny Baker often went back to the coal mines even though he was

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  • The Story Behind The Song – The Shape I’m In

    February 11, 2013 | by Richard Thompson

    The Shape I'm In was written by Dudley Connell, a founder member of the neo-traditional band the Johnson Mountain Boys and currently guitar player with the Seldom Scene. It was included in the band’s Dream Scene album (Sugar Hill SHDC-3858),

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  • Bluegrass 45 renion tour in Japan

    October 16, 2012 | by John Lawless

    Back in the early 1970s, a talented young Japanese band caused quite a sensation at festivals here in the US - and not simply for what was then the novelty of a foreign band playing bluegrass. Calling themselves Bluegrass 45,

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