Tuesday Tunesday: Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma Attaboy Yes, Yo-Yo Ma made a bluegrass album. Yes, it rules. Yo-Yo Ma is one of the most famous cellists of the modern age, certainly of those living. Known mostly for his extremely wide musical range reaching classical formal pieces, to avant garde styles, to even bluegrass. What I love most about Yo-Yo...
Tuesday Tunesday: Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe “Uncle Pen” You may remember Bill Monroe from the article regarding his 100th birthday. Due to his influence, I found it only fitting that he should also receive a dedication in this segment as well. Bill Monroe is a legend in the bluegrass and folk music world, as well as around anyone who...
An Unusual Barber Shop
The small town of Drexel, North Carolina is the home to a most unusual barbershop. Not only is the shop a staple in the community, it is the epicenter of all great bluegrass musicians in the area. On Saturdays, the shop hosts an informal meeting among men to talk, swap jokes, solve the worlds problems,...
Tuesday Tunesday: Roscoe Holcomb
Roscoe Holcomb “Little Birdy” and “Graveyard Blues” If you’ve ever spent a night in the woods, whittled a stick, drank water from a spring, fallen out of a tree, had your dog run away, or ever longed for something you couldn’t quite reach, then you’ve felt Holcomb’s music even if you haven’t heard it. Restricting...
A Century of Bill Monroe
Today is the 100th birthday of American music legend Bill Monroe. He is universally known as the “father of bluegrass,” and has influence reaching even to Johnny Cash said it best, when introducing Bill Monroe: “The popularity of Bill Monroe and the bluegrass music has remained constant and has been heard throughout the world to...
