Glen Neaves

Glen Neaves began performing fiddle in 1919, at age nine–his father played clawhammer-style banjo, but Glen under no circumstances took compared to that instrument or technique. His musical function model was G. B. Grayson, a famous traditional fiddle participant who lived close by, who was popular enough to possess gotten a talk about in “The Ballad of Tom Dooley.” Neaves performed in a far more contemporary design of bluegrass than the majority of his competitors, and prevented playing lots of the even more familiar breakdowns common to rings in his personal period. He was, in the centre 1960’s, totally oblivious aswell to the even more commercial strategy of folk-rock music. Neaves also followed himself like a vocalist on acoustic guitar, and was named among the better bluegrass performers of his area, and a exclusive fiddle stylist. Neaves structured the Virginia Hill Males in the 1940’s, and its own membership varied over time. Their major launch, Nation Bluegrass from Southwest Virginia on Folkways from your mid-1960’s, presented Ivor Melton (mandolin), Bobby Harrison (acoustic guitar), and Cullen Galyean (banjo).