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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…

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…

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…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine July 1995, Volume 30, Number 1 Joe Mullins is passionate about bluegrass music. And he loves to share that passion with others, much, one gathers, as his musician father, Paul, originally did with him, 25 years ago. These days the two of them are kindling the flames of bluegrass fervor…

Robbie Fulks is a bluegrass guy who started his career in bluegrass, but then waited until his 16th project to do a full-blown bluegrass album. Listeners of his Bluegrass Vacation will likely say it was worth the wait after one spin through the player. Fulks has spent decades in the music business, best known as…

West Virginia-born Greg Blake, a remarkable singer, accomplished flat picker and long-time member of the band, Special Consensus, has been playing music nearly his entire life. But for three decades his singing and picking played second fiddle while he served as a pastor at various churches in the Midwest and West. Now that he’s retired…