Tag Archives: bluegrass

The Bluebird Café – 50 Years

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Peter Feldmann

the Bluebird Café’s real mission was to form a center and school for acoustic music of all types on the central coast. Folk, Cajun, blues and bluegrass all found a home there, along with early country and a smattering of classical, jazz, eastern, and experimental musics. Continue reading →

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CONVERSATION: Rodney Dillard

Posted on September 4, 2020 by Peter Feldmann

I was contacted recently by a publicist for Rodney Dillard, who has released a new digital album on Pinecastle titled Old Road New Again.  Rodney’s band for the project includes the current Dillards, plus Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, Herb Pederson, … Continue reading →

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Bluegrass: Country Soul

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Peter Feldmann

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 →

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The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover: Little Annie

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Peter Feldmann

What got me excited was Don’s “tag” or ending of his banjo break. It’s four beats of pure delight, sort of going off sideways like a plot twist in an Alfred Hitchcock film! Continue reading →

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The Origins of Bluegrass Music

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Peter Feldmann

I think Bill Monroe might have hired Stringbean more as a comedian to break the ice than for his banjo picking. Either that or because he was a good shortstop! Many early bluegrass bands had at least one member who did the rube comic act . . . a relic from minstrel and medicine show times. Continue reading →

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