The Archives
Larry Perkins—The Best of Both Worlds
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine May 1991, Volume 25, Number 11 You’ve seen him selling instruments at a lot of bluegrass festivals, this friendly, soft-spoken, unassuming fellow with the beard and bib overalls. You’ve also seen and heard him playing banjo and finger-style guitar onstage with Curly Seckler and the Nashville Grass. His banjo style…
Charlie Cline—The Return of a Bluegrass Legend
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine May 1996, Volume 30, Number 1 At a recent bluegrass festival one of Bill Monroe’s earliest fiddlers animated himself as a cur hound, then a wounded hound, chased the children around, joked with friends and fans, and sparked life into this reunion of former Blue Grass Boys. “Hey, Melvin. What…
Snuffy Jenkins—A Legend in his Own Time
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine June 1987, Volume 21, Number 12 In the art of bluegrass and old-time country music, Snuffy Jenkins is most certainly a legend in his own time, and now at the age of seventy-eight continues to perform for audiences all over the United States. While preparing to write this article, the…
Good Ol’ Persons
Photos by Gene Tortora Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine October 1984, Volume 19, Number 4 I’m sorry, but when it comes to singing bluegrass, most women just can’t cut it.” “Women bluegrass musicians are such wimpy players.” “If God had intended women to play bluegrass, He would have created “Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass…
Bobby Atkins—A Rededication to Bluegrass
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine August 1985, Volume 20, Number 2 Photographs, albums, and posters crowd the walls of the hand-built frame structure that once housed Bobby Atkins’ Stokes Recording Studio in Summerfield, ten miles northwest of Greensboro, North Carolina. Atkins’ career has included three stints with Bill Monroe, ten albums of his own, radio,…
Charlie Nixon
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine December 1977, Volume 12, Number 6 The dream of many aspiring bluegrass Dobro pickers is to play for Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass. Since 1972, this position has been capably filled by Charlie Nixon. Originally from Springfield, Tennessee, 25 miles north of Nashville, Charlie was fascinated by the sound…