Monthly Archives: April 2019
Eck Robertson, Texas Fiddler, and “Sallie Gooden”
“He had a leather strap around his neck attached to the end pin of the instrument. He spoke of fiddling and occasionally, would raise the instrument to playing position and run his bow across the strings to make a point. His frailty vanished as soon as he laid that bow to the strings: there was the Eck I knew from his recordings! ” Continue reading
Posted in General, History
Tagged bluegrass history, early recording, fiddle, fiddler, Folk Music, old time music, Peter Feldmann, Texas fiddling
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Bluegrass: Country Soul
1971 was a banner year for bluegrass music. It had come of age the decade before, following its invention as a musical style by Bill Monroe in the mid-1940s. Little known, except by country music fans for its first twenty … Continue reading
Posted in History, News
Tagged albert idhe, bluegrass, documentary film, Earl Scruggs, jimmy martin, mac wiseman, ralph stanley
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