Tag Archives: bluegrass
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
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Tagged albert idhe, bluegrass, documentary film, Earl Scruggs, jimmy martin, mac wiseman, ralph stanley
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The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover: Little Annie
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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Tagged banjo, bluegrass, don stover, lilly brothers
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The Origins of Bluegrass Music
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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Tagged Alan Lomax, Bill Monroe, bluegrass, Earl Scruggs, five string banjo, Folk Music, music history, old time music, Radio, vaudeville
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