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20 unusual facts about Bluegrass music


Adam Steffey

Adam Steffey (born November 24, 1965) is an American mandolin player, best known for playing in the bluegrass and old-time styles.

Bill Jorgenson

Bill Jorgenson (December 22, 1930 – February 5, 2007) was an American bluegrass musician.

Billy Rich

As a session musician, Rich has gotten the chance to play different styles of music, including Reggae, Blues, Country Western, R&B, Jazz, Rock, Samba, Pop and Bluegrass.

Birch Monroe

Birch Monroe (1901 – 1982) was a notable early bluegrass fiddler, bassist, founding member of the Monroe brothers, and older brother to Bill Monroe.

Dancer with Bruised Knees

It employed several notable folk musicians to contribute a bluegrass feel to many of the tracks.

Dick Kimmel

Dick (Richard) Kimmel (born February 21, 1947) is a bluegrass/oldtime musician and biologist.

Don L. Harper

Harper’s first CD, Dream and Variations, is a hybrid of jazz, Americana, rock, spirituals, blues, and bluegrass.

Doug McKelway

McKelway plays the banjo and occasionally performs Bluegrass music at local taverns.

Fries, Virginia

Although the entire Appalachian region is known for its Bluegrass and traditional, or "old-timey" music and musicians, the region around Mount Airy, North Carolina is one of the few areas of the United States where this music has remained strongest, even among young people.

Goldie Sayers

Sayers' father, Pete Sayers, who died in 2005, was a bluegrass musician and the first Englishman to appear at the Grand Ole Opry.

Green Pastures

Green Pastures, is the truncated title of a classic bluegrass song by Ralph Stanley, the full title of which is Going Up Home to Live in Green Pastures.

Hylo Brown

Hylo Brown (April 20, 1922 – January 17, 2003) was a bluegrass and country music singer, guitarist and bass player.

J. B. Beverley

Reared in a musical household, Beverley grew up on early country, bluegrass, rockabilly, big band, and various forms of old time blues.

Jeannie Seely

In Fall 2003, Seely released a new album, which was marketed towards Bluegrass music titled Life's Highway, which received high critical acclaim.

John Herald

John Herald (September 6, 1939 – July 18, 2005) was an American folk and bluegrass songwriter, solo and studio musician, and one-time member of The Greenbriar Boys trio.

Leroy Drumm

Leroy Maxey Drumm (September 26, 1936 – November 26, 2010) was born in Algonac, Michigan is an American and a bluegrass/country music songwriter who served in the United States Navy, in the 3rd Division as a sonar man aboard the USS Soley (DD-707), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer and deployed to the Mediterranean from July 1956 to February 1957.

Sporsmaal2

After the inevitable break-up of Timothy, he got together with the bass player Paul Betts and formed “the Universal 39 concept live at the synphonia bluegrass tribute concert”, an experimental studio based project.

Stereo Rodeo

Stereo Rodeo is the sixth studio album by the American bluegrass rock band Rusted Root.

Steven Block

In addition, he is a member of the scientific advisory group JASON, a senior fellow of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and an amateur bluegrass musician.

Uncle John Scruggs

In the mural, Uncle John Scruggs is pictured in between Bill Monroe, "the Father of bluegrass music", and Earl Scruggs, who popularized the 5-string banjo in the 20th century.


Arkamo Rangers

The Arkamo Rangers were a Springfield, Missouri bluegrass band with simple and traditional sound yet rebellious and questioning lyrics celebrating modern life with traditional ways.

Banks of the Ohio

The song and its title served as the theme song for, and title of, a long-running radio series broadcast of bluegrass music on WAMU-PBS and Bluegrass Country, hosted by Fred Bartenstein and produced for

Black Forest Bluegrass

Black Forest Bluegrass is a recording of the music of Peter Schickele under his comic pseudonym of P. D. Q. Bach, featuring the composer and "a bluegrass band with a Baroque orchestra, a wind octet with toys, a commercial with a snake — this album has it all!"

BlueBilly Grit

BlueBilly Grit, commonly abbreviated BBG, is an American bluegrass band originating from Maysville, Georgia.

Catfish Records

The company latterly issued a number of historical recordings in other genres including jazz, country and bluegrass, but also featured releases from several contemporary artists including Michael Messer, Steve Earle, Bap Kennedy, Townes Van Zandt and Terry Clarke.

Dede Wilson

Dede Wilson is the mother of sons Ed Wilson and Dave Wilson, the latter lead singer/songwriter for the American bluegrass musical group Chatham County Line.

G. B. Grayson

Mostly blind from infancy, Grayson is chiefly remembered for a series of sides recorded with guitarist Henry Whitter between 1927 and 1930 that would later influence numerous country, bluegrass, and rock musicians.

Hard 'n Phirm

After the huge success of their song "Rodeohead" (a bluegrass-style medley of covers of Radiohead songs), they released their first and only album to date: Horses and Grasses.

La Cucharita Se Me Perdió

The song is in the style of the traditional "carranguera" music native to the rural lands of central Colombia, a folk music genre analogous to the "bluegrass" music that is indigenous to the U.S.The song's creator, Jorge Velosa, is famous within the country for this and other songs that became popular among the Colombian people.

Podunk Bluegrass Festival

The Podunk Bluegrass Festival is an annual bluegrass festival formerly held the first full weekend of August in East Hartford, Connecticut, and Norwich, Connecticut.

Poor White

Significantly the Poor White have been crucial for their musical contributions to: Bluegrass, Country and Rock and Roll.

Scarlet Begonias

A bluegrass version of the song appeared on the 2008 album Rex (Live at the Fillmore) by Keller Williams with Keith Moseley and Jeff Austin.

Should Have Seen It Coming

Should Have Seen It Coming is the fourth studio album by the American bluegrass band Split Lip Rayfield, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music).

The Ballad of Mark Warner

"The Ballad of Mark Warner" is a bluegrass song written and performed by The Bluegrass Brothers in 2001 for the gubernatorial campaign of Mark Warner.

The Folk Sampler

The Folk Sampler is a nationally syndicated public radio (NPR) show, that showcases folk, blues, & bluegrass music both modern and old.

Uncommon Ritual

Uncommon Ritual is the second album released by Sony Classical of string trios, following Appalachia Waltz, with unusual instrumentation and influences from bluegrass and folk music to create an Americana-style of traditional classical music.

United Steel Workers of Montreal

The band draws on punk rock, bluegrass and country influences, and is part of a "citygrass" scene of alternative country musicians in Montreal which also includes Katie Moore and Lee Mellor and the Mudhounds.

WEGL

WEGL 91 is a traditional "college radio" station in that the station's programming consists of an eclectic mix of genres including, but not limited to: Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop, Blues, Jazz, Country & Bluegrass, Soul, Dance & Techno, R&B, Reggae, World Music, Oldies, and Gospel.

William E. Jones

The bluegrass band The Dixie Bee-Liners have a biographical ballad about Jones on their 2008 album Ripe (Pinecastle Records) entitled "Grumble Jones".