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A Half-Century of High Country with Butch Waller
There aren’t many people who have led a working bluegrass band for 50 years. Bill Monroe did it, with his Blue Grass Boys. Mac Martin did it in Pittsburgh, with his Dixie Travelers. And Butch Waller has done it in San Francisco, with High Country, an outstanding traditionally oriented bluegrass band now in its fifty-third… Read the full article
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AJ Lee: Back to Bluegrass
“We started out right/Pickin’ in the pines/It’s a music that stays in your soul.” Although AJ Lee is currently only twenty-four years old, she has been turning heads at California bluegrass events for nearly two decades. AJ attended her first festival when she was five years old and, as part of the Kids On… Read the full article
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From The Archives
Rambling In Redwood Canyon: The Routes of Bay Area Bluegrass
First of Four Parts Part One Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine May 1991, Volume 25, Number 11 Once upon a time, in a land far from the birthplace of bluegrass music, lived a group of young college students who became the first bluegrass band in the San Francisco Bay area. It was the late ’50s…. Read the full article