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H.M. Barnes’ Blue Ridge Ramblers

Just who have the heck is H.M. Barnes? Well, imagine if Elvis “The Ruler” Presley proceeded to go beneath the stage name of “the Colonel’s Elvis Presley.” Barnes was a ’20s promoter who strike the road establishing tour times for the old-timey string music group he fronted firmly like a …

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John Dilleshaw

Contacting John Dilleshaw a bandleader or guitarist doesn’t appear quite enough, as fronting groupings named Seven Feet Dilly & the Hot Pickles or Dilly & His Dill Pickles appears similar to a sheer respond of courage, unless you are playing desk to desk within a deli. Remember, however, that was …

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The Soggy Bottom Boys

The fictional Soggy Bottom Boys will be the on-screen personas of George Clooney’s rootsy band in the Coen Brothers’ 2000 film O Sibling, Where Art Thou? The business lead vocals and electric guitar work were in fact supplied by Union Place member Dan Tyminski, with support vocals from longtime folk …

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The New Lost City Ramblers

Through the folk increase from the late ’50s and early ’60s, the brand new Dropped City Ramblers launched audiences towards the authentic string strap sound from the 1920s and ’30s, along the way educating a generation that experienced never noticed this uniquely American appear of old-time music. While keeping music …

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The Deighton Family

An eclectic selection of music acts because the repertoire from the Yorkshire, England-based Deighton Family members. Led by dad Dave, who takes on melodeon, harmonica, fiddle and acoustic guitar, and sings business lead, and, mom Josie, who takes on classical guitar and bodhran, the seven-piece group mixes Cajun two-steps, bluegrass …

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The Carolina Tar Heels

The sticky symbol from the tarheel being practically a franchise within the Carolinas, it comes as no real surprise that two different old-time rings used the name Carolina Tar Heels, this later on version of the group actually forcing the very first someone to change its name to the initial …

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