Skip to content

In the News

  • Bluegrass At Large
  • Media
  • Music
  • Opinion / Humor

On the Charts

  • Bluegrass Weekly
  • Bluegrass Monthly
  • Grassicana Weekly
  • Gospel Weekly

In the Community

  • Events
  • Directory

Need Help?

My Profile
Logout

  • News
  • Charts
  • Events
  • Directories
  • Support

menu

Penny Parsons

  • Moments in Bluegrass BG75 #7 – Foggy Mountain Boys on TV

    August 4, 2020 | by Richard Thompson

    Following an invitation that the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) extended to its members that they share a memory from “75 years of bluegrass”, we thought that we would collect a few to share with you.  Beginning in February 1981 when

    Read More
  • ARSC recognizes Curly Seckler book

    October 5, 2017 | by Richard Thompson

    The Association for Recorded Sound Collections recently announced the winners of their 2017 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Among those winners was the much-heralded biographical work by Penny Parsons, for the book Foggy Mountain Troubadour, The Life

    Read More
  • Penny Parsons to speak at Earl Scruggs Center

    May 16, 2017 | by John Lawless

    Penny Parsons, author of Foggy Mountain Troubadour - The Life and Music of Curly Seckler, will speak on Friday (May 19) at The Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC. She will talk about Curly's time with Flatt & Scruggs, his

    Read More
  • Country Music HOF to feature Seckler book

    July 13, 2016 | by John Lawless

    On July 22, 2016, The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville will feature a discussion with Penny Parsons, author of Foggy Mountain Troubadour - The Life and Music of Curly Seckler. The book, recently published by the University

    Read More
  • Foggy Mountain Troubadour – The Life and Music of Curly Seckler

    June 30, 2016 | by Dick Bowden

    Those who are interested in the history of bluegrass and old country music must buy and read this wonderful book, Foggy Mountain Troubadour – The Life and Music of Curly Seckler, by Penny Parsons. Much like in the earlier Mac Wiseman

    Read More
  • Foggy Mountain Troubadour out today

    May 23, 2016 | by Richard Thompson

    Foggy Mountain Troubadour: The Life and Music of Curly Seckler a much anticipated biography by Penny Parsons is published today, Monday, May 23, 2016. It would be foolhardy to say that John Ray ‘Curly’ Seckler was a side-man; that is forgetting

    Read More
  • Foggy Mountain Troubadour coming soon

    December 2, 2015 | by Richard Thompson

    We have been well served with bluegrass music books during the past year with the superb study of the Stanley Brothers' career and recorded music, The Music Of The Stanley Brothers, the substantial Bluegrass Hall of Fame Inductee Biographies, the

    Read More
  • On this Day #38 – Flatt & Scruggs

    April 11, 2015 | by Richard Thompson

    On this Day … On Saturday, April 11, 1953, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys (Curly Seckler, Benny Martin, bass player unknown, but may have been Red Murphy) performed at the Mosque Theatre in Richmond, Virginia, along with

    Read More

Most Recent Comments

  • Who’s the real Father of ...

    "developed in the slums". Impossible to say, since those slum paleyrs werent recorded, but I think not. Monore stood ...

    Rambler797 - Mar 24, 2023
  • The real Father of Bluegrass: ...

    Love Charlie Poole but he didn't have the drive Monroe had. Poole's groove was in that 2/4 ragtime thing while Monroe ...

    Allen Jon Kinnaman - Mar 23, 2023
  • Who’s the real Father of ...

    The way I see it, Monroe was the bandleader, Sruggs was a sideman. Earl was playing to BIll's vision of the music on ...

    Rambler797 - Mar 23, 2023
  • The real Father of Bluegrass: ...

    Bluegrass was Monroe's representation (Bob Cantwell) of traditional music. Scruggs was a sideman. Monore grafted his ...

    RamblerinAZ - Mar 23, 2023

Latest Event ListingsSearch Events

Wernick Method Bluegrass Jam Class with Joel Denman – Durango, CO
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jam Class with Lydia Conway – Ronan, MT
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jam Class with Leslie Dare & Susan West – Raleigh, NC
Wernick Method Bluegrass Jam Class with Debbie Wagner – Appeton, WI

Bluegrass Today Profiles

  • Bluegrass Beyond Borders: Old Baby Mackerel from England
    Old Baby Mackerel
  • Meet rising Texas grasser Riley Gilbreath
    Riley Gilbreath
  • Doyle Lawson: Incredible talent, but also mentor to young musicians
    Doyle Lawson
  • California Report: Violinist/Fiddler Alisa Rose
    Alisa Rose
  • Bluegrass Beyond Borders: Banjo Lounge 4
    Banjo Lounge 4

  • Staff Directory
  • Advertising
  • Contact Us
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy

© Bluegrass Today 2023

powered by AhSo

  • News
    • Bluegrass At Large
    • Media
    • Music
    • Opinion / Humor
    • Back
  • Charts
    • Bluegrass Weekly
    • Bluegrass Monthly
    • Grassicana Weekly
    • Gospel Weekly
    • Back
  • Events
  • Directory
  • Support

© Bluegrass Today 2023
powered by AhSo