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The Blue Grass Quartet; Bill Monroe, Rudy, Joel Price, and Jimmy Martin ca. 1950

Rudy Lyle—Classic Bluegrass Banjo Man

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine April 1985, Volume 19, Number 10 In any conversation about the great musicians in the formative years of bluegrass music one name always comes up, Rudy Lyle. Rudy played the banjo on many of the classic Bill Monroe recordings including “Rawhide,” “On & On,” “Sugar Coated Love,” and probably his…

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Road to Columbus

Here is a jam track for the tune “Road to Columbus”. The track is in the key of A and played at full tempo. If the tempo is not right for you, you can slow it down or speed it up using the “Playback” selection in the “Settings” menu.

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I Saw The Light-Mandolin

In an earlier video Dan Miller showed you some folded scale patterns on the mandolin. In this video he demonstrates how you can fit some of those patterns, or partial patterns around a melody using the song “I Saw The Light” as a demonstration. He first plays the melody, then the melody with added tremolo,…

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Keith Whitley singing with Ralph Stanley

Ralph Stanley

I’ve Just Seen the Rock of Ages Cold chills. That’s what I get when I hear the eerie voice of Ralph Stanley. You can say that I’ve been a true-blue Stanley Brothers nut since I first heard them in 1962. Just thumbing through my collection of LPs, I count 58 Stanley Brothers or Ralph Stanley…

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