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Skyline

Offering banjoist Tony Trischka, Skyline helped pioneer the newgrass appear in the ’80s, merging a bluegrass/country mix with strong music and tight harmonies. They released several albums over the Flying Seafood label, including Later to Function in 1981, Stranded in the Moonlight in 1984, Skyline Drive in 1986, and Fireplace …

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Southern Melody Boys

In the perspective of bluegrass music history, certainly the very best known group with this name may be the one which grew from the music relationship of two teenagers who played old-time music in the mid-’30s. Odus Maggard was created near Threat, KY, in 1915, and performed both electric guitar …

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The Whites

Among the longer-lived family members harmony groupings in nation music, the Whites began being a bluegrass group, enjoyed an interval as nation hitmakers in the ’80s, and afterwards concentrated on gospel music. Buck Light (vocals, piano, mandolin) and his daughters Sharon (vocals, electric guitar) and Cheryl (vocals, bass) officially comprised …

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The Rowans

Intensifying bluegrass group the Rowans contains harmonizing brothers Peter (guitar, many members from the mandolin family), Lorin (guitar), and Chris (guitar, flute). All three was raised in the tiny Massachusetts city of Weyland, near Boston, and performed rock and roll and bluegrass music jointly. Peter used several folk rings in …

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Josh Graves

Uncle Josh Graves revolutionized the part from the Dobro in nation and bluegrass. An extraordinarily gifted musician renowned for his moving syncopated technique and amazing acceleration, his seminal recordings as an associate of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs’ Foggy Hill Boys founded the resonator acoustic guitar as an important element …

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Charlie Waller

b. 19 January 1935, Jointerville, Tx, USA, d. 18 August 2004, Gordonsville, Virginia, USA. A mentioned vocalist and guitarist, Waller performed traditional bluegrass music but was constantly prepared to accommodate adjustments without dropping his innate musical integrity. In the middle-50s he made an appearance on radio within the Louisiana Hayride, …

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The Bluegrass Cardinals

The Bluegrass Cardinals came jointly in LA in 1974 when banjoist Don Parmley and mandolinist Randy Graham teamed up with Parmley’s 15-year-old son, David, to create what was to become successful bluegrass trio who wielded considerable influence in the latter half from the ’70s through the first ’90s. Don Parmley …

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The Bluegrass Album Band

The Bluegrass Recording Music group was a bluegrass supergroup formed in 1980. Originally, the music group presented J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Tony Grain, Bobby Hicks, and Todd Phillips. All the members were referred to as intensifying bluegrass musicians, however the Bluegrass Recording Band was made to showcase the original side …

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Mike Auldridge

Along with his skill and his broad definition of this is of bluegrass music, Mike Auldridge became known over his multi-decade career being a master from the Dobro, or resonator guitar. Elevated in Kensington, Maryland, he started playing electric guitar at 12, adding banjo when he was 16 and buying …

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Reno & Smiley

Don Reno, Crimson Smiley, as well as the Tennessee Cut-Ups were a bluegrass music group of such top quality which they gave serious competition to Flatt & Scruggs within the ’50s. Reno, an unparalleled master from the banjo, performed for Expenses Monroe in 1948, changing Earl Scruggs. Having a clean …

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