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The Fiddle Music of Art Galbraith: An Ozark Family Legacy Passed Down Four Generations

Photos by Virginia Curtiss Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine January 1984, Volume 18, Number 7 Seventy-four-year-old Arthur Galbraith, of Springfield, Missouri, accurately represents the essence of old-time fiddle music popular in the Ozarks over 100 years ago. Art plays many of the same tunes that his Uncle Tobe Galbraith did, in the same lilting, traditional…

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Enjoy the Ride

In a different timeline Vince Herman would have been an outlaw-country songwriter playing pinball with Waylon Jennings and rolling endless doobies with Willie Nelson while writing songs that would have been classics on the fringe of country.  In this timeline Herman has been the leader of the progenitors of slamgrass and jamgrass pioneers Leftover Salmon,…

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The Future Of The Past

The Tennessee Bluegrass Band has one distinction going for it right off: This excellent quintet has two Lincolns: Lincoln Hensley on banjo and occasional guitar and Lincoln Mash on bass and lead vocals. Fortunately, there’s a whole lot more that sets this ensemble apart. Produced by Jerry Salley, The Future of the Past has a…

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Here In The Country

For the better part of five decades banjo master Terry Baucom, a multi-IBMA Award winner, has had a dynamic presence on the bluegrass scene. He was a founding member of Boone Creek, Doyle Lawson’s Original Quicksilver, The New Quicksilver and IIIrd Tyme Out. Along the way, he’s been a member of several other high-profile bands….

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Tall Poppy String Band

The Tall Poppy String band was created by George Jackson (fiddle), Mark Harris (guitar), and Cameron DeWhitt (banjo). They have made what they say is a new approach to the feel of old-time traditional string band music. Jackson is a fiddle player originally from New Zealand but now is based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has…

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