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While he preferred the word “hill music” to “bluegrass,” Ralph Stanley ranked second and then Expenses Monroe in his importance towards the genre. A pioneering clawhammer banjoist and riveting vocalist, Stanley shot to prominence along with his sibling Carter as well as the Clinch Hill Boys within the ’40s and …

Rufus Kasey was created in 1918 in Huddleston, VA (Bedford Region), where his family had lived for a number of generations. He started playing banjo when he was eight, creating a drop-thumb clawhammer design on his aged resonator-backed Kay, which he applied to the unique edition of “Coo Coo Parrot” …

Perhaps one of the most noted Appalachian old-time music artists, banjo participant and vocalist Roscoe Holcomb spent the majority of his lifestyle in the tiny city of Daisy, KY, and was perhaps one of the most authentic exponents of American hill folk music. Certainly, he never really had any professional …

Affectionately and also reverently referred to as “Mother” Maybelle, Maybelle Carter was one-third of country music’s original first family members, the Carters. Given birth to Maybelle Addington in-may of 1909, she was related by relationship to some.P. and Sara Carter — she wedded A.P.’s sibling Ezra. Maybelle Carter was the …

Acquiring inspiration from a number of the founding voices of dark steel, Louisville, Kentucky-based musician Austin Lunn produced one-man task Panopticon in 2007. Early albums implemented in the footsteps of rings like Darkthrone or Emperor, providing lo-fi creation and blistering dark steel guitars, with lyrics and liner records that brimmed …

The son of the career Air Force officer, Rick Shea was created in 1953 when his family was stationed at Annapolis. As a kid, Shea and his family members traveled wherever the environment Force delivered them. The elder Shea retired to San Bernardino, CA, when Rick is at junior high. …

As an associate from the Carter Family members, Sara Dougherty Carter laid the building blocks for modern nation music. Through the 14 years (1927 to 1941) that she documented with then-husband Alvin Pleasant “A.P.” Delaney Carter and her cousin along with a.P.’s sister-in-law Maybelle, Carter helped to carefully turn the …

Sarah Garland Gunning from the singing Gunning clan was the tenth of 11 kids within a dirt-poor Kentucky mining family members. Her dad, Jim Garland, became a member of the Knights of Labor, who became the United Mine Employees of America in 1884. In those days, circumstances for miners had …

Walt Koken was a innovator within the old-time music revival from the 1960s. His clawhammer technique for the five-string banjo was well-documented until he stop recording in the first ’70s. Rounder released a return recording in 1994 entitled Banjonique.

The Roane State Ramblers of Tennessee are remembered due to recordings they designed for Columbia Information in 1928 and 1929. The music group was shaped in the past due 20s and was led by Jimmy McCarroll (b. 1892, Cumberland Mountains, East Tennessee, USA), a specialist fiddler, who stated Cherokee ancestry, …