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Uncle Josh Graves

  • New Josh Graves dobro course from Rob Ickes

    April 14, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Reso guitar master Rob Ickes has announced a second video course where he teaches classic Josh Graves solos from the days of Flatt & Scruggs at the Big Music Tent site. Unlike sites where you pay subscriptions to obtain their instructional

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  • Billy Troy’s battle with COVID – a close brush with mortality

    July 29, 2021 | by Sandy Hatley

    "It's been tough for all of us entertainers," began Billy Troy, son of famed reso-guitarist, Josh Graves. The past year was especially difficult for this professional singer/musician in particular. He nearly died after contracting COVID-19. In 2007, Troy had left his Nashville

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  • Classic Solos of Josh Graves video from Rob Ickes

    June 1, 2021 | by John Lawless

    Attention reso slidesters! Here's a great opportunity to go deep inside and study some of the foundational solos that established the bluegrass dobro style through the music of Josh Graves. In his newest video course for Rob's Reso Room, master reso-guitarist

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  • University of Illinois Press Bluegrass E-books

    September 17, 2013 | by Richard Thompson

    For a limited period only the University of Illinois Press (UIP) is making available in an E-book format three top quality bluegrass titles. Beginning on September 24, the date on which the International Bluegrass Music Association's World of Bluegrass event in

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  • Bluegrass Bluesman earns major award

    August 30, 2013 | by John Lawless

    Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir, the autobiography of Josh Graves (edited by Fred Bartenstein) has been awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Since 1991, the ARSC has sought to preserve and study historical sound recordings

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  • Making History with The Pioneers of Bluegrass

    July 25, 2013 | by John Lawless

    July 22, 2013 marked the official release date for Making History with The Pioneers of Bluegrass, a documentary film 11 years in the making. The project was spearheaded by bluegrass artist James Reams, who dedicates the film to his late

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  • Blue Yodel #56 – Mr. Blue Grass Smarty Pants

    December 10, 2012 | by Chris Stuart

    Our guest smarty pants this week has been called the Father of Bluegrass History—okay, I just called him that, but it’s apt. Neil Rosenberg is Professor Emeritus of Folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland, a chair formerly held by Gandalf. Neil

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  • Blue Yodel #51 – Bluegrass Bluesman

    October 29, 2012 | by Chris Stuart

    I spent yesterday with Josh Graves by reading Bluegrass Bluesman: Josh Graves A Memoir, a collection of transcribed interviews given in the '90s by the resonator guitar master. Expertly edited by Fred Bartenstein with help from a lot of good folks,

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  • Celebrate Josh Graves’ birthday at IBMA

    September 23, 2012 | by Richard Thompson

    Thursday, September 27 is the 85th anniversary of Josh Graves's birth in Tellico Plains, Monroe County, TN. To mark the occasion the University of Illinois Press is hosting a birthday party, launching their new book about Graves - Bluegrass Bluesman:

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  • Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir by Uncle Josh Graves

    September 3, 2012 | by Richard Thompson

    Although Bill Monroe never ordained it as the 'sixth child', the Dobro® / resonator guitar has become a mainstay in the instrumental line-up in many bluegrass bands. That it has is due to Burkett Howard 'Josh' Graves, the subject of a

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