The Archives
Stringbean
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine January 1974, Volume 8, Number 7 David “Stringbean” Akeman was probably more loved as a total personality than anyone in show business today. He criss-crossed bluegrass and country lines for nearly four decades and, if somebody had tried to define which side of the fence he belonged on. String would…
Riley Puckett—Country Music’s Pioneer Guitarist
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine October 1984, Volume 19, Number 4 Enon Baptist Church is located just a few miles from the Atlanta suburb of College Park on a winding stretch of highway known as Stonewall Tell Road. Across the road from the church is a cemetery, full of sculptured granite and marble monuments. One…
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Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine January 1978, Volume 12, Number 7 The hills of North Carolina have been alive with the sound of music for hundreds of years. Some of the greatest musicians have their roots in these hills, with two of those being banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Doc Watson. Ironically, I recently…
Doc Watson
Reprinted From Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine November 1970, Volume 5, Number 5 It became very obvious after spending hours talking with Doc and compiling page upon page of notes, that the hardest part of this article would be to construct a satisfactory introduction; an introduction which would serve as a solid foundation upon which to build…
Leon Morris
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine September 1982, Volume 17, Number 3 The Washington D.C. area is full of veteran bluegrass musicians who learned to play in the ’50s, when both they and the music were young. Over the years, most of them migrated to the nation’s “bluegrass capital” from Appalachia. Guitarist and singer Leon Morris,…
Josh Graves
Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine December 1972, Volume 7, Number 5 The Dopera Brothers’ resophonic guitar probably has reached its greatest success in the capable hands of Josh Graves, who brought the acoustic slide guitar to Carnegie Hall for the first time when the Flatt and Scruggs organization played there in the early 1960s and…