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Alison Krauss & Union Station—Flight Plan Paper Airplane Lands AKUS Back On The Bus
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine October 2011, Volume 46, Number 4 When rock’s Golden God met the Grammys’ all-time winning woman, he had something on his mind. “My first conversation with Robert (Plant) in person was about Ralph Stanley,” Alison Krauss says, sipping tea in the kitchen of her Nashville home. “I loved that. Robert’s…
Alison Krauss and Union Station
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine June 1991, Volume 25, Number 12 “If only all those country (or pop or rock) fans who say they don’t like bluegrass would just give it a listen, they’d love it.” “If only the mass media would give bluegrass some positive exposure…” Those of us who care about bluegrass are…
J.D. Crowe
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine April 1995, Volume 29, Number 10 J.D. Crowe has been described as a “musician’s musician” and indeed the subtlety of his playing and his clever innovations are the type of things frequently best appreciated by other musicians. Yet Crowe’s popularity has been far from limited to pickers. The enthusiastic response…
Jimmie Skinner—Country Singer, Bluegrass Composer, Record Retailer
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine March 1977, Volume 11, Number 9 Although Jimmie Skinner has not been a bluegrass artist until recently, his contributions to the music have nonetheless been considerable. His unique style of country singing appeals to both bluegrass lovers and traditionalists. Many of Jimmie’s song compositions have found their way into the…
Fiddler in the Shadows — The Story of Tommy Magness
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine May 1997, Volume 31, Number 11 “There are three types of history for our music,” said the old man. “There’s mullet history—that’s the kind you tell to people from Minnesota who don’t know what a banjo is. Then there’s book history—that’s where you divide up the music into a different…
Chubby Anthony —Making that Fiddle Sing
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine February 1979, Volume 13, Number 8 In the Southern part of the nation, they still talk about that sunny, Sunday afternoon in north Georgia in 1977 when Sonny and Bobby Osborne invited a Florida fiddle player named Chubby Anthony on stage with them to perform a set consisting almost totally…