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Benny and Vallie Cain
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine May 1972, Volume 6, Number 11 Husband and wife singing teams, while not uncommon in Country-Western music, are very unusual in bluegrass. Probably one of the best known such team are Benny and Vallie Cain, who have, for more than twenty years, performed their own distinctive brand of music; a…
Bluegrass Music For Today—Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine February 1986, Volume 20, Number 8 East Tennessee, the late 1950s, a boy just entering adolescence chops a borrowed mandolin, hoping to find the same licks he heard Bill Monroe play on the Opry the Saturday night before. The boy summons up the courage to wrap the mandolin in a…
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine November 1980, Volume 15, Number 5 “I’ve always been a pusher,” allows Doyle Lawson matter-of-factly. “If I’m doin’ good, I want to do better. I’ve never been as good as I want to be—as good as I can be. I hope I never get as good as I want to…
Doyle Lawson
Retires from the Road Photo by Richard Boyd The last week of 2021 was an emotional one for IBMA Hall of Fame legend Doyle Lawson. On Christmas Eve one of his best friends, J.D. Crowe passed away. His funeral was scheduled for December 30, the same day that Lawson would be taking his final bow…
Ben Greene
Bluegrass Sideman Photos By Laura Ridge “I am very blessed to have spent my whole life doing what I love with deepest passion,” Ben Greene professed after a recent show. What has he been doing his whole life? Playing music, mostly picking banjo for his livelihood. Greene has played the last sixteen years with the…
