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Our latest bluegrass bunkum
"There were/are signs on Osborne Brothers Way on the outskirts of the town commemorating Sonny and Bobby, born here in 1937 and 1931 respectively and still with us today, but nothing that said Osborne Brothers in the veritable ghost town of Hyden itself. Firmly on the bluegrass map, the town hosts a popular multi-day annual bluegrass festival, The Osborne Brothers Hometown Festival, held at the town’s Bobby Osborne Pavilion. The festival started in 1994 as a benefit for the Thousandsticks Volunteer Fire Department and the town hosted its 25th festival in August of 2018. Festival weekend is probably as good a time as any to visit Hyden, and if doing so you should find it a livelier than we found late on a mid-October afternoon." >>> MORE
- Bill Monroe
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- David Pendley, mandolinist with The Kristy Cox Band
BLUEGRASS HISTORY / GIGS & FESTIVALS / TRAILS
Musings from the bluegrass past (History), the bluegrass crowd (Gigs/Festivals) and the bluegrass trail (#bluegrasstrails)
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Kenny Baker | Jenkins, KY | Bluegrass Trails
"We did our pre-departure homework, so we were confident at the time that we’d find some reference in Jenkins or neighbouring Burdine/East Jenkins to master fiddler and former local boy Kenny Baker, best known for his 25-year tenure with Bill Monroe, the longest tenure of any of Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys. But no, nothing. Not on the streets of the town, nor among the foliage of the town’s Sam Bentley Cemetery. We came up short.”
Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa | Ireland 2019
"Appaloosa, who, according to their website, are a ‘a group of seasoned musicians who play predominately original, contemporary and traditional Bluegrass music’, were formed in 2008 by Wayne Taylor after retiring from 21 years of service with Country Current, the US Navy’s renowned country-bluegrass ensemble. Wayne has shared a stage, and a song (‘Uncle Pen’ no less), with Bill Monroe (in 1995) and his two-decade-plus stretch with the Navy band, the last 9 of which were as band leader, saw him play for many a bigwig - heads of state, royalty and even 4 US presidents. But on this night, World Bluegrass Day 2019, he played for us, us and about 70 others in the Village Arts Centre in sleepy Kilworth, County Cork."
Kenny Baker | Jenkins, KY | Bluegrass Trails
"We did our pre-departure homework, so we were confident at the time that we’d find some reference in Jenkins or neighbouring Burdine/East Jenkins to master fiddler and former local boy Kenny Baker, best known for his 25-year tenure with Bill Monroe, the longest tenure of any of Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys. But no, nothing. Not on the streets of the town, nor among the foliage of the town’s Sam Bentley Cemetery. We came up short.”
- Steve Martin
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- Bill Monroe
THE MYGRASSISBLUE.COM GALLERY
Featured Image - August 2020 | The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN. (click on image to enter the mygrassisblue.com Gallery)
- Ricky Skaggs
