Search Results: Bill Emerson

UNITED STATES NAVY BAND COUNTRY CURRENT THIS IS…NAVY COUNTRY! No Label No Number Country Current is part of the public relations arm of the U.S. Department Of The Navy. You have got to love that part of it. I remember seeing Bill Emerson at his latest gig before going in to the Navy to play…

CRAIG MORRIS BANJOLOGY Bluegrass is an egalitarian music. It is grassroots music. There are folks who go to festivals who never even get to the stage, they are so wrapped up in playing the music. Some folks can’t help but share their music with others. Craig Morris is a fine banjo picker and he gathered…

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…

Queries: Q: There is a gospel tune the Gillis Brothers recorded which, as far as I can tell, has not been recorded elsewhere: “I Always Call Your Name.” I and my bluegrass friends LOVE the tune, but we are seriously struggling with understanding the lyrics in the second verse. We are missing the second and…

Bluegrass music is about storytelling. All music is. Rooted in ancient ballads and country music story-songs, bluegrass songs (and tunes, too, to a lesser extent) tell us about the true life blues, the little cabin on the hill, the flag-covered casket, the walls of time. All of them are perfect three-minute stories.      …

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine October 1977. Volume 12, Number 4 It was a hot September evening in Louisville, Kentucky seven years ago when I first met a skinny teenage guitar player named Tony Rice. He had just landed his first job with a full-time bluegrass band and was obviously totally immersed in music. Tony’s…