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Dr. Ralph Stanley: Generations of Influence
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine August 2016, Volume 51, Number 2 Just one day before Dr. Ralph Stanley passed on June 23, 2016, musician Lucy Cochran posted the now-famous video of Stanley singing “Pretty Polly” with Patty Loveless and the Clinch Mountain Boys on Facebook. Cochran is an excellent fiddler whom I first saw play…
Head Over Heels in Love With You
Here is a jam track for the tune “Head Over Heels In Love With You”. The track is in the key of G and played at full tempo. If the tempo is not right for you, you can slow it down or speed it up using the “Playback” selection in the “Settings” menu.
Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down on Guitar
In this video Orrin Star teaches how to flatpick a guitar solo for “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down.”
Roots
Trailhead Records Roots is an interesting and fun album just on the merits of spinning in the CD player. But on closer inspection when the listener finds out it was literally created with a one-man band and that the one man—Liam Purcell—wrote all but one song (he co-wrote the other), it becomes an even more…
Bill Emerson—Staying Home in the Washington, D.C. Area (1966-1970)
After playing on the road with Jimmy Martin off-and-on for five years, Bill Emerson decided that he had had enough of the intense road travel. He still wanted to play music, but he did not want to be out on the road quite as much as being a member of Jimmy Martin and the Sunny…