Tag Archives: Traditional Bluegrass

NEW YORK banjo participant Raymond Fairchild released many albums of bluegrass and traditional banjo music, including Mama Likes Bluegrass Music, 31 Banjo Favorites, and Cherokee Music, both with and without his backing music group, the Frosty Hill Boys. Banjo Break down premiered in middle-2000 and the next installment in the …

While an effective singer in her own best, Melba Montgomery could very well be best kept in mind in tandem with her string of duet recordings with famous brands George Jones, Charlie Louvin, and Gene Pitney. Given birth to Oct 14, 1938, in Iron Town, TN, and elevated in Florence, …

A bluegrass music group with a big dosage of gospel thrown in, NewFound Street formed in the 4th of July, 2001, in southwest Ohio. Structured out of Franklin, OH, the group, including Tim Shelton (electric guitar), Rob Baker, Jr. Williams (banjo), and Tim Caudill (bass), made a decision in the …

Petticoat Junction was formed by guitarist/vocalist Andrea Campbell, banjo participant Robin Roller, fiddler Gail Rudisill and bassist/vocalist Gena Britt. The original bluegrass band produced in 1989-90 and provides released Hands of the bigger Power on Pinecastle Information.

As nation music swung back again toward traditional designs in the 1980s, an inheritor from the soulful honky tonk design of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard rose to the very best of the business enterprise and notched strike after barroom strike. Occasionally he was known just as “the Tone of …

Scotty Stoneman continues to be called the Jimi Hendrix from the violin by Peter Rowan, as well as the “bluegrass Charlie Parker” by believe it or not a figure than Jerry Garcia. However he’s an elusive, incomprehensible figure — in a few ways a lot more therefore than Parker or …

Scott Nygaard is among bluegrass’ most eclectic guitarists. A former person in Laurie Lewis and Offer Street, Nygaard continues to be an essential person in Tim O’Brien’s O’Boys since 1991. Furthermore to periodic sideman gigs with stellar music artists as Tony Furtado, Todd Phillips, Peter Rowan, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, …

The strings from the hammered dulcimer stand out with melody and percussive rhythms through the playing of Sam Rizzetta. The founder of multi-dulcimer group, Trapezoid, in 1975, Rizzetta provides continued to artistically explore his multi-stringed device being a soloist since 1979. Furthermore to preserving a busy plan being a performer …

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 …

Bluegrass and nation singer Frank Dark brown earned the nickname “Hylo” because of the considerable vocal range that became his brand. Blessed in 1922 in Johnson State, KY — afterwards the birthplace of Loretta Lynn — Dark brown had thoroughly utilized the music indigenous to his Appalachian house before moving …