Don Stover

Don Stover was among bluegrass’ best-loved music artists. An advantage concert offering Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka, Laurie Lewis, Chesapeake, Costs Keith, and Jim Rooney on the Somerville Movie theater in Somerville, Massachusetts in November 1994, elevated a lot more than nine thousand dollars for Stover to endure a human brain tumor procedure. A video of the function was eventually released by Homespun Tapes. Stover was instrumental in dispersing bluegrass within the northeast as an associate from the Lilly Brothers, the home music group at Boston’s Hillbilly Ranch from 1952 until 1970. Aside from a brief stint when he became a member of Costs Monroe’s Bluegrass Children in 1957, Stover performed using the Lilly Brothers on the membership six times weekly, 50 weeks per year, in addition to on the daily radio present broadcast by WCOP. A functionality by Stover as well as the Lilly Brothers on July 4, 1967 was taped and released as Live on the Hillbilly Ranch in 1996. Even though group disbanded in 1970, Stover continuing to influence a fresh era of bluegrass players. Furthermore to forming a fresh band, the Light Oak Mountain Children, Stover documented a solo record, Things in Lifestyle, offering mandolinist David Grisman. Originally released in 1972, the record was reissued in 1995. Although he originally played banjo within the clawhammer design that he was trained by his mom, Stover changed his strategy after hearing a Grand Ole Opry broadcast offering Earl Scruggs playing within the even more melodic, three-finger design with Costs Monroe & the Bluegrass Children. Through the ’40s, Stover well balanced a full-time work like a coal miner with shows using the Coal River Valley Kids. In the middle-’70s, Stover relocated to Maryland. He succumbed to tumor on November 11, 1996 at age 68.