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Rhinestone Revival
The band is called The Kody Norris “Show,” and over the last few years, a listener only must take in a couple of songs to get it. The band’s latest release, Rhinestone Revival, is another step towards the top tier of bluegrass. Although the single “Mountain Rosalie” was released last fall, the full album didn’t…
Final Chapter
It’s fitting that the 50th anniversary project for Lost & Found is literally an album that’s been lost for more than a decade. In 2013, the seminal group was working on a project for Mountain Fever Records when health issues for Allen Mills put the project on hold. The “lost” hard drive was recently found…
The Osborne Brothers—From Rocky Top to Muddy Bottom
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine December 1977, Volume 12, Number 6 Alot of things have transpired with the Osborne Brothers and their innovations and contributions to bluegrass music. While they have been the subject of many comments about going electric, adding drums, and basically experimenting within the general framework of the music, Sonny and Bobby,…
The Lost & Found
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine March 1978, Volume 12, Number 9 Together only four years, The Lost and Found of southwest Virginia is rapidly cutting a favorable swath across the bluegrass entertainment field with a Duke’s mixture of traditional and modern bluegrass sounds, all arranged in a distinct, creative style. In addition to bringing musical…
Foggy Mountain Boys Reunion
Photos by Greg Reed Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine May 1984, Volume 18, Number 11 Lester Flatt had been gone almost four and a half years, and Earl Scruggs couldn’t be there, but the reunion of the Foggy Mountain Boys at Blue Grass Park, Camp Springs, N.C., Saturday, September 3, 1983 was a milestone in…
The New Tradition
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine August 1973, Volume 8, Number 2 “Tradition — Something handed down from the past; an inherited attitude, culture, etc.” Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary It was 9:30 at night on Saturday, June 2nd, at the Indian Springs Bluegrass Festival near Hagerstown, Maryland. Since Friday at 7:00 p.m. the ever-swelling crowd had…