Download or read book The Legends of Bluegrass Music written by Mike Cunningham and published by Mike Cunningham. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of the American South, amid rolling hills and lush landscapes, a genre of music was born that would enchant generations and shape the very essence of the nation's musical heritage. "The Legends of Bluegrass Music" is a journey through the lives and contributions of the most influential figures in this soul-stirring genre. At the heart of the Bluegrass universe stands a figure synonymous with the genre itself—the "Father of Bluegrass," Bill Monroe. From his roots in Kentucky to the revolutionary creation of the Bluegrass Boys, his trailblazing path defined not only the sound but the spirit of this distinctive music. Within these pages, encounter the inimitable duo of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Their enduring partnership enchanted audiences far and wide, inspiring us to explore the profound connection between tradition and innovation. The architects of Bluegrass, like The Stanley Brothers, Ralph and Carter, left an indelible mark with heartfelt harmonies and soul-stirring lyrics, while pioneers Reno and Smiley and The Osborne Brothers broadened the genre's scope. But the Legends of Bluegrass extend beyond its early days. A new wave of artists emerged, including Alison Krauss and Keith Whitely, each carrying the torch and adding their unique flair. From joyous fiddle tunes to heartrending ballads, Bluegrass weaves a tapestry of emotions, vividly portraying the human experience. Join us on this musical odyssey through time, where we delve into the lives and accomplishments of the Legends of Bluegrass Music. Their stories remind us of the power of music to unite, uplift, and transcend barriers. As we journey through the pages of this book, we are moved by the incredible talent and indomitable spirit of these legendary artists who shaped Bluegrass into an everlasting, cherished art form.
Download or read book North Carolina String Music Masters written by Elizabeth A. Carlson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina musicians pioneered and mastered the genres of old-time and bluegrass music. The roots of American music are deeply grounded in North Carolina's music history. Doc Watson played mountain fiddle tunes on guitar. He emerged as the father of flatpicking and forever changed the role of the guitar in American music. Charlie Poole created techniques that eventually defined bluegrass, and folks around the state heard his banjo on some of the most important old-time recordings. Rising star Rhiannon Giddens keeps the music alive today through new interpretations of classic old-time and bluegrass songs. Elizabeth Carlson profiles these and other masters of string music in this fascinating record of North Carolina's musical past, present and future.
Download or read book Fate Flukes Fame in Country and Bluegrass Music Legends written by Dennis Goodwin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country and Bluegrass Music, with their pure and simple joys and sorrows, have forged a common bond among Texas cowboys, New York accountants and Oklahoma house-wives. This bond has not only connected the fans, but also bound together history's glittering array of Country and Bluegrass entertainers. One of the links connecting this patchwork assortment of music legends is a restless dream-hungry spirit. They lived on odd jobs and daydreams as they waited for fate to switch on their spotlight. Ironically, when that light finally beamed, it was often ignited by a spark that no one could have predicted. Merle Haggard, for instance, found his light through a prison vent during solitary confinement in San Quentin. Earl Scruggs' mastery of the banjo was enhanced by a childhood argument. With Roy Acuff, the beam of stardom would only glow after a near-tragic misfortune ruined his dream of a professional baseball career. Jimmy Martin's entrance onto the bluegrass stage came after he was fired for singing on the job. Loretta Lynn's world was illuminated by a friend's high-stakes deal. Carter Stanley's guitar techniques sprang from a "singing mailman." And Patsy Cline's spotlight was switched on by a song she didn't even want to sing. The stories of these fortunate twists of fate are often as intriguing as the Country and Bluegrass legends they produced. This book will let you join the solid gold legends of Country and Bluegrass music as they travel down the elusive path of fate, flukes and fame.
Download or read book Homegrown Music written by Stephanie P. Ledgin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With retail sales of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack exceeding 6.5 million copies since its 2000 release, bluegrass music has re-entered the spotlight as a major American style, spawning huge successes with subsequent albums. Author Stephanie P. Ledgin has captured the rich history of this music in Homegrown Music, a lively, informative book that is perfect for newcomers and devoted fans, musicians, and non-musicians. Though recognized and embraced internationally, bluegrass is one of only two musical genres native to America and, like jazz, it boasts a colorful and lively history, one that is captured here in all its detail complete with candid interviews with such legends as Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Covering such aspects of bluegrass as instrumentation, songs, the festival experience, and parking lot picking, Homegrown Music also offers candid interviews with many celebrated bluegrass figures. An extensive up-to-the-minute resource guide of print, audio-visual, and Internet materials rounds out the volume. Enthusiasts of all ages will find much to discover and much to enjoy.
Download or read book Fate Flukes and Fame in Bluegrass Music Legends written by Dennis Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parking lot of a bluegrass festival tells it all. You'll find mud-caked farm trucks, freshly washed SUVs and college-stickered sports cars...all parked side by side. For a few hours, the barriers that usually separate the stock brokers from the grocery clerks and the housewives from the college professors have somehow dissolved.Floating over and weaving in amongst the audience, are the voices and music of another time. Those voices and that music reminds them that although life was different back then, it was filled with the same heartaches, joys and dreams that visit us all. Those voices often originated in ancient Scotland and Ireland and soared across the ocean to echo through the Appalachian mountains. Then, as the fiddle cries and the tenor reaches for the sky, those ancient voices once again resonate through another generation.The stories behind the music are sometimes as colorful as the high-lonesome songs themselves. They are often flavored with the irony of the odd twists and turns of fortune. Earl Scruggs' mastery of the banjo, for example, was enhanced by a childhood argument. Jimmy Martin's entrance onto the bluegrass stage came after he was fired for singing on the job. Alison Krauss, a master of the bluegrass fiddle, actually wanted to play the piano. And Carter Stanley's guitar techniques sprang from a neighborhood "singing mailman."When you open the cover of the concise little booklet, you the bluegrass music legends-to-be as they travel down the elusive path of fate, flukes and fame.
Download or read book Bluegrass written by Neil V. Rosenberg and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth anniversary paperback edition, updated with a new preface Winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association Distinguished Achievement Award and of the Country Music People Critics' Choice Award for Favorite Country Book of the Year Beginning with the musical cultures of the American South in the 1920s and 1930s, Bluegrass: A History traces the genre through its pivotal developments during the era of Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys in the forties. It describes early bluegrass's role in postwar country music, its trials following the appearance of rock and roll, its embracing by the folk music revival, and the invention of bluegrass festivals in the mid_sixties. Neil V. Rosenberg details the transformation of this genre into a self-sustaining musical industry in the seventies and eighties is detailed and, in a supplementary preface written especially for this new edition, he surveys developments in the bluegrass world during the last twenty years. Featuring an amazingly extensive bibliography, discography, notes, and index, this book is one of the most complete and thoroughly researched books on bluegrass ever written.
Download or read book True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass written by Tom Piazza and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Martin was just twenty-two years old when Bill Monroe asked him to join the Blue Grass Boys. That invitation was the start of a career that spanned half a century and culminated with Martin's induction into the International Bluegrass Music Association's Hall of Honor. Always an enigmatic figure, Martin was as famous for his temper as he was for his talent. On assignment from the Oxford American magazine, fiction writer and music critic Tom Piazza drove from his home in New Orleans to Nashville to interview Martin and found himself pitched headlong into a world he couldn't have anticipated. Martin's mercurial personality drew the writer into a series of escalating encounters (with mean dogs, broken-down cars, and near electrocution), culminating in a harrowing and unforgettable expedition, with Martin, to the Grand Ole Opry. Though, or perhaps because, visits to the Opry like the one Piazza recounts were common for Martin, and though he frequently played on its stage and always hoped to become a member, he died before seeing his dream fulfilled. True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass is the funny, scary, and powerfully poignant portrait of one of the legends of American music. Co-published with the Country Music Foundation Press
Download or read book Kentucky s Bluegrass Music written by James C. Claypool and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is likely that most fans of bluegrass music would concede that no state should be more associated with bluegrass music than Kentucky--and rightly so. Bluegrass music draws its name from the band that Kentuckian Bill Monroe formed during the late 1930s and 1940s. Bill named his band Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys to honor his home state. Eventually, the music these bands and others like them were playing came to be known as bluegrass music. Later, another Kentuckian, Ebo Walker, while playing with the Bowling Green-based bluegrass band, New Grass Revival, coined the phrase "newgrass" to describe the band's progressive style of music. Other Kentuckians such as Bobby and Sonny Osborne, J. D. Crowe, Ricky Skaggs, and Dale Ann Bradley have become bluegrass stars. Some of the musicians from Kentucky covered in this book are quite famous--some are not. Famous or not, all of them have a deep-rooted passion for the music they play.
Download or read book The Bluegrass Reader written by Thomas Goldsmith and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological guide to bluegrass music that describes and traces the development of the musical genre.
Download or read book Artists of American Folk Music written by Phil Hood and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Except for original pieces about Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and Mary, the articles compiled here about folk, bluegrass and new acoustic musicians first appeared in Guitar Player and Frets magazines. Most pieces have been updated; they profile the artists' backgrounds, careers and contributions to their musical forms. (The articles on Odetta, Pete Seeger, Bill Monroe and Richie Havens include interviews with the musicians.) Subjects represent different eras of modern folk music: from the early days (Woody Guthrie and Malvina Reynolds) to the height of popularity 25 years ago (the Kingston Trio, Joan Baez and Arlo Guthrie) to new acoustic artists (David Grisman and Tony Trischka). Also of note: an article about the Lomax family, the archivists who have made extensive recordings of folk music that might otherwise have been lost. Although this book gives the novice a general background, it adds little new information."-- Publishers Weekly.
Download or read book Blue Grass Boy written by Barb Rosenstock and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the creation of the unique American music called bluegrass through the story of Bill Monroe. Bill Monroe loved many things: playing music, his big family, and his home in the bluegrass state of Kentucky. Even though his eyes were crossed and didn't work right, Bill's ears worked hard, picking out all sorts of sounds around his treasured home: rushing streams, wailing winds, and sundown jamborees with his family. Through heartache and hard times, Bill held on to these sounds that reminded him of home. Award-winning author Barb Rosenstock and illustrator Edwin Fotheringham beautifully capture the ups and downs of Bill Monroe's musical journey, and how his deep Kentucky roots helped him create a unique form of American music--bluegrass. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash and Jerry Garcia all credit Bill Monroe with influencing their music.
Download or read book Classic Country written by Charles K. Wolfe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now for the first time, country music authority Charles K. Wolfe gathers together his profiles of 50 legends of country music, including Bill Monroe, Lefty Frizzell, and Kitty Wells.
Download or read book Traveling the High Way Home written by John Wright and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wright's collection of interviews and stories about Ralph Stanley puts readers around a campfire at a bluegrass festival while old-timers weave yarns far into the night. Told by those who create, produce, stage, love, and virtually live for old-time mountain music, these tales come from the longtime coworkers, sidemen, promoters, friends, and others in the orbit of the music legend. The storytellers include a scholar who knew Stanley from the early days, the housewife who ran the Stanley Brothers Fan Club, and a souvenir seller for whom the discovery of Stanley's music was almost a religious experience. Wright also uses these invaluable oral histories as a foundation to describe and evaluate Stanley's long career with the Clinch Mountain Boys and the development of his music after the death of his brother Carter. An appendix covers Ralph's prolific recording activity through the mid-1990s, including a breathtaking forty-five albums compromising more than 550 songs and tunes.
Download or read book Fate Flukes and Fame in Bluegrass Music written by Dennis Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluegrass music legends, like the rugged back-country farmers they often sang about, knew the value of tedious hard work and perseverance. Instead of crop-killing droughts and devastating dustbowls, they often faced years of playing their songs to rowdy drunks in smoke-filled dives. Year by year, they patiently tended their bluegrass "field of dreams" with loving hands and blistered fingers. As they practiced their instruments and perfected their high-lonesome harmonies, even the city slickers among them seem to rhythmically drift back to an earlier time. They settled into an age when news of the world didn't flash by on non-stop news channels. It was tossed on the porch by a young man on a bicycle, to peruse with morning coffee and a pipe-full of Prince Albert. Although that slower pace could be comforting, it sometimes felt like time was standing still. Now and then, though, life could suddenly pick up speed, and their musical fields would flower and turn to solid gold. Jimmy Martin's crop flourished, for example, when he was fired from his job for singing too much. Carter and Ralph Stanley's golden harvest sprang from a singing mailman. And young Earl Scruggs' musical seeds began to spout after a childhood argument. Join the legends of bluegrass as they follow the furrows of fate, flukes and fame.
Download or read book America s Music written by Barry Robert Willis and published by . This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capital Bluegrass written by Kip Lornell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documenting the history and development of bluegrass in and around the nation's capital since it emerged in the 1950s, Capital Bluegrass: Hillbilly Music Meets Washington, D.C. is central to our understanding of bluegrass in the United States and its place in our nation's capital.
Download or read book Kentucky Country written by Charles K. Wolfe and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky Country is a lively tour of the state's indigenous music, from the days of string bands through hillbilly, western swing, gospel, bluegrass, and honkey-tonk to through the Nashville Sound and beyond. Through personal interviews with many of the living legends of Kentucky music, Charles K. Wolfe illuminates a fascinating and important area of American culture. The list of country music stars who hail from Kentucky is a long and glittering one. Red Foley, Bill Monroe, Loretta Lynn, Tom T. Hall, the Judds, Dwight Yaokum, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, John Michael Montgomery, and Keith Whitely—all these and many others have called Kentucky home. Kentucky Country is the story of these stars and dozens more. It is also the story of many Kentucky musicians whose contributions have been little known or appreciated, and of those collectors, promoters, and entrepreneurs who have worked behind the scenes to bring Kentucky music to national attention.
