December 30, 2023
Biography
This old-time string band was led by among the great country harmonica players, who also been your physician and a graduate of Nashville’s Vanderbilt University. His group was referred to as the Augmented Orchestra when it appeared for what will be the historical initial ever broadcast for the Grand Ole …
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December 30, 2023
Biography
Revisionist background has largely erased the name of Honey Wilds from nation music lore. His importance towards the music’s progression continues to be unassailable: a Southern humorist and regular performer for the Grand Ole Opry between 1932 and 1952, Wilds was the innovative push behind the Opry’s 1st tent tours, …
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December 30, 2023
Biography
Much of the eye in old-time music through the revival many years of the ’70s centered on the original fiddle and string music group music from the southern Appalachians, particularly in your community throughout the border cities of Galax, VA, and Support Airy, NC, the homeland of renowned fiddlers like …
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December 29, 2023
Biography
The distinctive sound of the early country and gospel recording artist’s voice may have been a little much for the air speakers in the ’20s and ’30s. However so effective was the result this music was having on that which was a new nationwide broadcast viewers that no one was …
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December 26, 2023
Biography
This classic old-time fiddler is a tiny mystery man, turning up as the senior person in a band formed in 1918 by fellow fiddle genius Clayton McMichen, among the regular sidekicks of Lowe Stokes over time. At first known as the Lick the Skillet Music group, then the Aged Hometown …
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December 25, 2023
Biography
One thing ought to be set up immediately concerning this man. Actually, it ought to be shouted out within a tone of voice loud enough to become noticed in a number of counties, and Leonard Emanuel is merely the man to accomplish it. The message is certainly that Leonard Emanuel …
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December 19, 2023
Biography
British fiddle participant Brian Golbey was the boy of the Sussex cowman and was raised hearing early American nation music. By enough time he was 11, Golbey understood how exactly to play both harmonica as well as the old-fashioned melodeon, the device his father performed. He received his initial electric …
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December 17, 2023
Biography
Chris Bouchillon single-handedly created the speaking blues form when he recorded “Speaking Blues” for Columbia Information in Atlanta in 1926 (the actual 78 wasn’t released until 1927), even though couple of recall his name today, the blues version he started continues to be utilized to great impact by myriad performers …
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November 15, 2023
Biography
Given birth to Wilma Lee Leary, songwriter and singer Wilma Lee Cooper grew up within a well-known music group that sang in local churches and festivals, billing themselves seeing that the Leary Family members. At one stage, the Learys had been even asked by Eleanor Roosevelt to execute at a …
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November 15, 2023
Biography
The original sounds from the southern Appalachian mountains were echoed in the music of Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper. In 1950, the Coopers and their music group, the Clinch Hill Clan, were called “one of the most genuine mountain performing group in america” with the music collection of Harvard School. …
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