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Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame artist inductees for 2020
June 26, 2020 | by David Morris
The newest performers inducted into IBMA’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame finally and definitively answered the big question in bluegrass. The question: Traditional or progressive? The answer, with today’s announcement of the pending induction of the Johnson Mountain Boys and New Grass Revival,
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Johnson Mountain Boys tribute show at Lil’ Johns
May 10, 2019 | by John Lawless
David McLaughlin, Marshall Wilborn, and Dudley Connell with the Johnson Mountain Boys at Nacogdoches Bluegrass Festival in Texas (July 4, 1987) - photo by Rick Gardner Lil John's Mountain Music Festival and their host band, Sideline, have come up with something special
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Seneca Rocks or Johnson Mountain Boys?
February 27, 2018 | by John Curtis Goad
Bluegrass fans, hold on to your seats – if you can get one – the Johnson Mountain Boys are back! (Almost, anyway.) Dudley Connell, David McLaughlin, Tom Adams, and Marshall Wilborn recently announced they will be performing a house concert
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Our Top 10 bluegrass songs for Christmas
November 29, 2016 | by John Curtis Goad
We’ve carved the turkey. We’ve packed up the leftovers, and got them back out fifteen minutes later to finish off. We’ve fought through the crowds at Wal-Mart to score a good deal on a TV, and checked our phones every
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On This Day # 15 – Richard Underwood
July 14, 2013 | by Richard Thompson
On This Day …. On July 14, 1956, Richard Underwood was born in Seabrook, Maryland. The 57 year old is best known for his hard-driving banjo playing for the Johnson Mountain Boys, that great neo-traditional band of the 1980s. Underwood first experienced bluegrass
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Rodgers Remembrance Vol V: Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)
May 25, 2012 | by Daniel Mullins
This week we are going to remember the life and times of America’s Blue Yodeler, the Singing Brakeman, and the Father of Country Music: the late, great Jimmie Rodgers. On Saturday, May 26, Jimmie Rodgers will have been gone 79
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Johnson Mountain Boys reunion this summer
February 3, 2011 | by John Lawless
Breaking news from our pal Katy Daley at WAMU's Bluegrass Country... In an on-air discussion this morning with Dudley Connell about The Johnson Mountain Boys, it was announced that they will be doing a couple of reunion shows this summer. Performances
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Dudley Connell talks Seldom Scene on Bluegrass Country
June 18, 2010 | by John Lawless
Back in February, WAMU's Bluegrass Country ran an extended interview with Dudley Connell. The piece ran 3 hours, and the response from listeners all over the world caught the staff by surprise. They quickly scheduled a number of re-airings, and
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Dudley Connell melts the switchboard
February 25, 2010 | by John Lawless
Over this past weekend, WAMU's Bluegrass Country ran the first 3 hours of the lengthy interviews they are conducting with Dudley Connell.He spoke in depth with Katy Daley and Lee Michael Dempsey about having grown up in the DC bluegrass
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David McLaughlin’s hearing loss – how you can help
December 31, 2009 | by John Lawless
Bluegrass mandolinists and long-time fans of traditional bluegrass music are well acquainted with David McLaughlin. He's been involved in several popular bands since he first started performing actively in the late 1970s, and has been responsible for clarifying how Monroe-based
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