Category Archives: General
A glimpse of the past . . .
I am speaking of Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys (“BGB”), with Bessie Lee Maudlin on bass, Del McCoury on guitar, Bill Keith on banjo, and Kenny Baker on fiddle. They were playing the Ash Grove Continue reading
Visiting Earl Scruggs
. . . He went down the hall and quickly came back, holding an old Gibson open-back banjo. “This belonged to Uncle Dave . . . here, play me a tune!” Continue reading
Microphones and Old Time / Bluegrass Music
I recently received the following e-mail: > Peter, > My band played to a loud room of people tonight. We had one hot mic for vocals and the crowd essentially drowned out instrumentation at times. I tried to play into … Continue reading
Thoughts on the Bluegrass Music
I first met Bill Monroe in May of 1963. At that time, he told me (and I still have the interview on tape): “When it comes to music, I always considered myself as an inventor, sort of like Henry Ford. … Continue reading
Old Time Fiddlers’ Convention: Performances – 2
The last Fiddlers’ Convention I managed was the 25th annual event, held in October of 1997. I used the event as an excuse to invite an old friend and bandmate Wayne Shrubsall of Albuquerque, New Mexico to come visit and … Continue reading