NOVEMBER 24, 2023 TRIVIA QUESTION All righty then, fill in the blank with a TOP-RANKED bluegrass performer(s), from New York state, and STILL LIVING IN NY STATE! Who can we claim as our very own? ____________________________________________________________ Hints: Not Bill Knowlton, … Read More
The excitement was unbearable as high school let out in June 1970. Dad bought a pop up tent camper and plans were made to drive to one of the biggest bluegrass festivals in the country in Berryville Virginia. This festival … Read More
This Contest is Closed The winners are: Andy Bing Todd Evans Guillermo HErnandez Dick Stock Roy Streever Gayle Yeomans click photo to enlarge NOVEMBER 10, 2023 TRIVIA QUESTION What Hillbilly/Bluegrass Performer was Murdered 50 Years Ago? What famous hillbilly/bluegrass music … Read More
This Contest is Closed The winners are: Dick Stock Todd Evans Gayle Yeomans click photo to enlarge OCTOBER 27, 2023 TRIVIA QUESTION Let’s talk about current-day bluegrass instrument makers. Gibson no longer makes banjos at all. Kay doesn’t make bass … Read More
This Contest is Closed The winners are Tom Behan and Gary Veeder click photo to enlarge OCTOBER 13, 2023 TRIVIA QUESTION Jimmy Martin was known as “The King of Bluegrass”. Whom did The Wall Street Journal call the “Queen of … Read More
Growing the Network – 1960s and 1970 In the last chapter I reviewed the growing bluegrass community around Maine and New England and getting more contact with the top people of bluegrass music like Don Reno. In the late 1960s … Read More
This Contest is Closed The winners are: Pat Dinges Jeanne Mathewson Betsy Rome SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 TRIVIA QUESTION What is the significance of this group of women to the development of bluegrass music? Sally Ann Forrester, Molly O’Day, Wilma Lee … Read More
I was very pleased to get a big envelope in the mail from Rebel Records. It was a review copy of High Fidelity’s new CD Music in My Soul – their all gospel new release. Hopefully you’ll remember a bit … Read More
In the last chapter I reviewed my first live bluegrass shows, which included none other than Flatt & Scruggs in Aug 1964 at Sunset Park in Pennsylvania. After I got home and Mom got the snapshot developed of Earl posing … Read More
This Contest is Closed No Winners This Week AUGUST 18, 2023 TRIVIA QUESTION What classic bluegrass band leader called the 5 string banjo a “minnow dipper” when introducing the banjo picker? A. Bobby Osborne B. Mac Wiseman C. Jimmy Martin … Read More