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Curios This is the second recording from San Francisco based Scroggins & Rose, a duo presenting twelve original tunes. Unlike their 2017 project, Grana, (reviewed in this publication in October 2017), this new project contains all original instrumentals and it builds somewhat on the first recording. It expands their creativity as they draw on Bach…
The New Grass Revival, Vol. 13 No. 5
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited MagazineNovember 1978 It was the summer of 1972 when I first heard the New Grass Revival. I was in the process of rediscovering bluegrass, a music remembered vaguely from childhood television shows at my aunt’s in Corbin, Kentucky, and vividly from my favorite first record, a worn out “78” of “Bile…
Sam Bush, New Grass Revival and Leon Russell
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited MagazineVolume 8, Number 4, October 1973 I had heard that this young group of bluegrass pickers from my own hometown was fronting rock Superstar Leon Russell on his tours, and that they were something else. Leon Russell and bluegrass? The New Grass Revival? Local, huh? From right here in Louisville? Yep….
The New Grass Revival, Vol. 6 No. 10
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited MagazineApril 1972 I had the distinct pleasure of seeing this group on Feb. 27 at Anderson, Ind. in the Coonhunters Club, a local building that is being used for bluegrass and country shows. Jim Clark presents the Country Jamboree each Sat. nite and John Keeney had arranged the show on Sunday…
BILL MONROE: KING OF BLUE GRASS MUSIC
Re-printed from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine from a four-part series run in 1967 and 1968 Radio McGill series. Interviews conducted by Doug Benson. Series researched, written, produced and announced by Doug Benson (with production & technical assistance from Richard Adams and a cast of thousands). Following is the first installment of a series containing material transcribed…
Notes & Queries – November
NOTES In the August 2020 “Notes & Queries,” we fielded a query about the jam-session favorite and popular bluegrass number, “Love Please Come Home,” and its writer Leon Jackson. Leon, with his partner Johnny Bryant, fronted a band called the White Oak Mountain Boys. The group made at least eight recordings for the King label…