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Bill Harrell: The New Direction
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine May 1980, Volume 14, Number 11 Nearly everybody has a part of their past they don’t really like to talk about. When Bill Harrell was being interviewed for this article, he was asked about a particular time during his association with the great banjo-player and songwriter Don Reno. Harrell’s happy…
Spectrum
When the four of them first got together and decided on a name for their new group, they chose Spectrum, to indicate their wide range of musical interests and abilities. The name is apt, as the music they produce together stretches from 1930’s popular music through Texas swing to jazz and country, while working within…
Joe Meadows—Mountain State Fiddler
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine October 1978, Volume 13, Number 4 Numerous fiddlers have made notable contributions to bluegrass music. Joe Meadows ranks among the more prominent, particularly during the decades of the fifties and the seventies. In between Joe took a long vacation from music but during his two active periods he established himself…
Shades of Blue
Photo by Katrina Burgoyne Don’t try to pigeon-hole Kristy Cox into one set category of music. The bluegrass artist/songwriter from the Land Down Under has a colorful singing voice that can cover traditional to contemporary to country. Born in Adelaide (capital city, 800,000 people), Australia, Cox grew up in a nearby mountainous country town of…
Kristi
Pikeville, Kentucky native Kristi Stanley has definitely found her groove and grown comfortable with her versatility on this finely executed song collection. Produced by Steve Wilson, Kristi has a fair share of straight-up bluegrass picking, but there are also stylistic forays into gospel, classic country, and hints of rock n’ roll here and there. Stanley, wife of…
Lost Love Songs
There are not many bands that can claim to have done songwriting in Antarctica. Joey Capoccia of The Pine Hearts did just that while working as a carpenter for the National Science Foundation at the South Pole greenhouse. The Pine Hearts are a self-described Americana band out of Olympia, Washington with a new release entitled…