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Imagine needing to surpass a father’s legacy which includes 55 years spent near the top of a very open public profession, plus much more than 100 recordings. Those are some large shoes to fill up when the daddy is certainly Ralph Stanley, a bluegrass large who basically shines in the …

Along with his 1993 solo album These Old Pictures, James King was established like a top-notch bluegrass vocalist. The recording, however, was just the latest part of a musical profession that had started 14 years before. A presented person in Ralph Stanley’s Clinch Hill Males in the 1980s, King, who …

These days people that like bluegrass are considering guitarist Jim Hurst the direction they used to check out Earl Scruggs back many years ago. Scruggs utilized to attract a hill of admiration and awe along with his dexterous fingerstyle playing. Right now Hurst is gradually creating a name for himself …

Through the entire ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, Dudley Connell has continued to be a significant figure in bluegrass music, first because the founder and mainstay from the Johnson Mountain Boys and afterwards as an associate from the Seldom Scene. He also undertook some “brother-style” duo albums with Don Rigsby. After …

With a big, bronzed voice and unusual facility in the very best register, James King proved a significant artist in the Strauss and lighter Wagner heroic tenor categories. Furthermore, he was a trusted and musically audio, if often in short supply of electrifying, vocalist of Italian and French functions, such …

Led by songwriter Michael Fitzpatrick, Fitz & the Tantrums brew up a retro sound motivated by Motown and Stax Reports. Fitzpatrick initially produced the Tantrums being a neo-soul single project; having bought an old cathedral organ, he discovered that it helped motivate his songwriting. While documenting a single EP, he …