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- Bill & Charlie Monroe. Before Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass, made his indelible mark on the genre (quite literally giving it its name), he was already a popular performer with his brothers Charlie and Birch.
- Flatt & Scruggs. December 1945. The Ryman Auditorium. Nashville, Tennessee. Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys stepped on stage for the Grand Ole Opry with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs among their ranks for the very first time and bluegrass as we know it today was born.
- Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard. Undeniably trailblazers, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard are widely regarded as the first women in bluegrass to capture the “high lonesome” sound popularized by Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, and others.
- The Stanley Brothers. Natives of the music-rich southwest corner of Virginia, Carter and Ralph Stanley were prolific recording artists and touring musicians in bluegrass’s first generation.
May 27, 2005 · I'd say way less than 50% of touring bands today wear suits, maybe about 25%. I've never worn a suit when playing in a bluegrass band. It's more common for the more traditional bands to wear suits, but that is not always the case. You can thank (or blame) John Hartford, Sam Bush and the Seldom Scene for this.
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- Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys
- Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
- Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
- Alison Krauss & Union Station
- Osborne Brothers
- Yonder Mountain String Band
- Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- New Grass Revival
- Country Gentlemen
You simply can’t have a list like this that doesn’t have Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boysat the top. Monroe, a Kentucky native, is credited with inventing bluegrass, so it makes sense that his band would occupy the top slot. It is a strain of country music with fast tempos, tight harmonies, and chops. If you aren’t a real musician, bluegrass would...
With seven Grammys to their name, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunderhave become the imminent heirs to the Bill Monroe legacy. Skaggs sings and plays the mandolin, and though his name is on the marquee, the rest of the band members are accomplished players too. Skaggs began a music career playing more mainstream country with Emmylou Harris, but in the ...
Bluegrass duo Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs—guitar and banjo, respectively—left Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys in 1948 to form their own act. The pair had a backing band, the Foggy Mountain Boys, in which many big names played, and for the 25 years they performed together, they made a huge mark. Most notably, “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” was a h...
When she was 16, Alison Krauss released an album. Two years later, in 1989, she joined forces with Union Station, and since then, Alison Krauss & Union Stationhas been a bluegrass and country mainstay. Despite the band members’ musicianship, the outfit still sometimes gets overshadowed by its frontwoman. Known for her ethereal voice as much as for ...
Born in Kentucky and raised in Ohio, Bobby and Sonny Osborne were playing bluegrass as young adults, but not together. The end of the Korean War brought Bobby home from Asia in one piece, and the brothers decided to form a band. Since Sonny was playing with Bill Monroe while Bobby was serving in the army, their music ended up being bluegrass. They ...
After “Blue Grass Boys,” “Yonder Mountain” might be the most bluegrass-sounding phrase ever. Yonder Mountain String Bandhails from Colorado and has been reinventing and revitalizing bluegrass music for many years. By the time they recorded their 1999 debut album, they already had a huge and dedicated following due to their sound and the respect the...
Doyle Lawson was still in his teens when he started playing banjo and mandolin for some big names in bluegrass back in the ’60s. By 1979, he had formed Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. Lawson himself won a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2006, and the act was continually honored by the International Bluegrass Mus...
While many may consider the Nitty Gritty Dirt Banda country-rock act, the group had its first successes playing with bluegrass legends like Earl Scruggs and Roy Acuff. Their bluegrass project was the 1972 triple-Platinum album Will the Circle Be Unbroken and its follow-up Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two. The latter received an Album of the ...
From the time they formed in 1971 up until the group’s last performance in 1989, New Grass Revivalpushed limits and actively worked to expand the horizons of what bluegrass music could be and do. In that vein, they played bluegrass versions of songs by the Beatles and Bob Marley, served as the backing band for Leon Russell for a time, and wrote ori...
As one of the first progressive bluegrass acts, the Country Gentleman were doing in the 1950s what the New Grass Revival did in the ’70s and ’80s—try to bring bluegrass to new audiences and open the genre up for exploration. With names like Doyle Lawson and Eddie Adcock playing as part of the act at different times, the band was a collection of shi...
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John Duffey. John Humbird Duffey Jr. (March 4, 1934 – December 10, 1996) was a Washington D.C. based bluegrass musician. [1] Duffey was born in Washington, D.C., and lived nearly all his life in the Washington D.C. area. He graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in suburban Maryland. [2] Duffey learned to play the mandolin, dobro ...
One of the most important links between the blues and bluegrass music. A prominent instrumentalist and vocalist with Flatt and Scruggs, the most successful bluegrass-style act of the ’50s and ’60s. Bluegrass Hall of Fame, 1997. Also a master at finger-picking the steel-string guitar, although that skill was seldom, if ever, recorded.
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