The Archives
An Interview With Bill Clifton
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine March 1968, Volume 2, Number 9 April 1968, Volume 2, Number 10 May 1968, Volume 2, Number 11 R.K.S.: This is August 9, 1967 – This is Dick Spottswood, I’m sitting here in my Takoma Park apartment. With me is Andrew Townend from England, Gail Swinburne my neighbor from Takoma…
Lester Flatt & Marty Stuart
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine September 1978, Volume 13, Number 3 “Precious memories, how they linger, How they ever flood my soul. In the stillness of the midnight, precious sacred scenes unfold.” J.B. Wright That song both opens and closes Marty Stuart’s “With A Little Help From My Friends” album. It is an appropriate number…
Rudy Lyle—Classic Bluegrass Banjo Man
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine April 1985, Volume 19, Number 10 In any conversation about the great musicians in the formative years of bluegrass music one name always comes up, Rudy Lyle. Rudy played the banjo on many of the classic Bill Monroe recordings including “Rawhide,” “On & On,” “Sugar Coated Love,” and probably his…
A Conversation with Red Allen
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine June 1979, Volume 13, Number 12 Rared back in the black leather chair, smiling expansively under his framed Kentucky Colonel award, Red Allen is a generous host and an entertaining companion. Seemingly unchanged by the passage of time and the rigors of open-heart surgery, his grin is as infectious as…
Jeanette Williams—She’s Got Her Walkin’ Shoes On
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine September, 2004. Volume 39, Number 3 Since she burst into national prominence with her debut solo album on Doobie Shea Records, “Cherry Blossoms In The Springtime,” in 1999, Jeanette Williams has proven she has the stuff to persevere for the long haul as a bandleader and artist. Despite personnel changes,…
Herschel Sizemore—A Mandolin Hero Returns
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine August 1993, Volume 28, Number 2 After a 12-year absence from regular performing, mandolin hero Herschel Sizemore has returned to fulltime performing with the Bluegrass Cardinals. Sizemore, who had been active throughout the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s had taken a job with Purolator Courier and worked for them from 1974…