Tag Archives: Traditional Bluegrass

Once referred to as “the P.T. Barnum of Nation Music,” Carlton Haney performed an important function in the popularization of bluegrass and nation through the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Elevated in the NEW YORK Piedmont, he generally prevented music until 1953, when he started dating Costs Monroe’s 16 year-old little …

Developing up with parents that possessed a club, Fred Travers paid attention to country music as a kid; he later examined music, sang in college and learned to try out guitar as well as the drums. After viewing dobro participant Mike Auldridge in Washington, D.C., he turned to that device. …

Benny Martin was among bluegrass music’s premiere fiddlers as well as the inventor from the eight-string fiddle. Given birth to to a musical family members in Sparta, Tennessee, he produced his debut on an area radio train station when he was just eight. He performed in an area band for …

He’s considered among the world’s leading specialists on traditional Appalachian fiddle and banjo designs, along with transporting on the customs of his past due and famous father-in-law Dewey Balfa as the accordion participant in the Cajun group Balfa Toujours. But fiddler/banjo participant/accordionist Dirk Powell 1st began playing music in the …

Fiddler Tammy Rogers was created in Tennessee in 1966 and raised in Irving, TX. As a teenager, she was trained traditional music but also performed frequently with her family members at bluegrass celebrations. After graduating university, she became a member of Patty Loveless’ support music group, which she adopted having …

Best remembered as you of Costs Monroe’s first Blue Lawn Boys, singer/songwriter/string participant Clyde Moody also played in every other subgenre of nation music during his more than fifty-year career, as well as performed being a single artist. Through the ’40s, he was referred to as the “Hillbilly Waltz Ruler” …

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 …

Among the leading lamps of progressive bluegrass in the ’60s, the Dillards played a significant component in modernizing and popularizing the audio of bluegrass, and were also an underappreciated impact on country-rock. The group was founded by brothers Doug (banjo) and Rodney Dillard (acoustic guitar), who was raised in Salem, …

Nation guitarist Joe Carr has issued many solo releases over time, not only is it a one-time person in the bluegrass clothing Nation Gazette, guesting on various other artist’s information, and issuing many instructional guitar movies. A completely self-taught musician, Carr started playing electric guitar at age 13 (motivated by …

Curly Seckler (blessed John Ray Sechler) was most widely known as the mandolinist and tenor for Flatt & Scruggs’ Foggy Mountain Boys, an organization that transpired in bluegrass history because of their Grammy-winning tune “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”. He spent a lot of his profession touring and documenting with bluegrass legends …