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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…

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…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine May 2010, Volume 44, Number 11 In the Ryman Auditorium on the night of October 1, 2009, presenter Tim Stafford opened the square, red envelope and announced Josh Williams as the IBMA guitar Player Of The Year. It was Josh’s second win in a row, and he received the award…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine April 1982, Volume 16, Number 10 It seems the bluegrass music world just doesn’t know how to take Eddie and Martha Adcock. They cross the lines between bluegrass, folk, country, rock and jazz like few other performing units on the bluegrass festival circuit. Eddie Adcock deserves a place in a…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine June 1993, Volume 27, Number 12 During the summer and fall of 1991 while conducting fieldwork in the Rosine and Horton area of Ohio County, Ky., I found pictures and stories of Pen Vandiver scarce. One day an informant (anonymous) told me Vandiver boarded with the Clarence Wilson family for…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine December 1994, Volume 29, Number 6 Andrea Zonn is one of the most gifted singers and one of the most accomplished fiddle players working today. She made her mark in bluegrass as a member of the Tony Trischka/ David Grier band, which evolved into the Big Dogs, and then shot…