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Busby was perhaps able to be a part of the Mercury-Starday group because his music, though keeping many traditional bluegrass sounds, was atypical of the popular sounds in Nashville at this time. Starday began releasing old recordings of Busby's music, even as late as the early 2000's, almost 50 years after they were recorded.
Each band on this list either has published sources — such as a news reports, magazine articles, or books — verifying it is a performing or recording bluegrass band and meeting Wikipedia's notability criteria for bands, or a Wikipedia article confirming its notability. For individual musicians, see the List of bluegrass musicians.
The Whiskey Boys is an American bluegrass and Americana band, based out of Boston. While the group performs original and traditional bluegrass, Americana music, they have also been influenced by Irish, Old Time, Country, and Folk music. The group has toured local venues throughout the northeastern US, in support of their three released albums.
Westbound Bluegrass Parkway near Bardstown. In 2003, the road was renamed in honor of Martha Layne Collins, the first female governor of Kentucky. Previously, it was the Kentucky Bluegrass parkway (and signed as "KB Parkway"), then later renamed the "Blue Grass Parkway" (sometimes with "Bluegrass" as one word, though in the highway's name, it was officially two words), and often called the "BG ...
Della Mae is an American bluegrass band formed in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in 2009. [1] Their name, "Della Mae" comes from the song, "Big Spike Hammer." [2]Della Mae was formed by Kimber Ludiker, Amanda Kowalski, Grace Van’t Hof, and Avril Smith, and released their first EP, "Della Mae: Acoustic EP" in 2010.
The second benefit, the Joe Val Benefit and Appreciation Day, on June 9, 1985 (two days before Joe died) was organized by the Boston Bluegrass Union (BBU), the now defunct North River Bluegrass Association (Cathy & Ted Howland and Linda Fitzpatrick) and many volunteers. A full day and early evening of jams, workshops and concerts drew many ...
The group's first project, It's a Long, Long Road, "spent six months at the top of the Bluegrass Unlimited charts and won IBMA's Album of the Year Award (1996)." [ 1 ] Jason Burleson, the original banjo player with the group and a multi-instrumentalist, is a native of Newland, North Carolina ., [ 1 ] Rob Ickes, a Northern California native ...
In the early 1970s, he joined Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys and about this time, he also settled in Boston. [4] In 1975, his book "Bluegrass Mandolin" was published by Oak Publications. [5] The following year, he recorded a solo album "Back Road Mandolin" on Rounder Records. In 1976, he formed Tasty Licks, a progressive bluegrass ...