November 2008
Now would be a good time to play "What Follows Fall" by Bluegrass Etc. (from their "Travelin' Band" album); "November" by Bob Amos (from his "Wherever I Go" album); "November Rain" by Lost Highway (from their "November Rain" album).
1
Seldom Scene formed, 1971
Bill Anderson born, 1937
Carl Nelson died, 2006
2
Daylight
Savings Time ends. Set clocks back one hour.
(Play
"Daylight Savings Time" by Grandpa Jones, or "Time Changes Everything,"
by the Reno Brothers.)
3
Stanley Brothers record "The Lonesome River", 1950
James Alan Shelton born, 1960
4
Election Day!
Play "Breadline Blues 2008" by Del McCoury, Mac Wiseman,
Tim O'Brien, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings from "Moneyland" CD
(McCoury Music)
Alan Munde born, 1946
Kirk McGee born, 1899 (died 10/24/83)
Allen Mills born, 1937
Pete Corum born, 1948
5
Ron Lynam born, 1954
6
First performance by the Osborne Brothers at radio station WROL in Knoxville,
TN, 1953.
7
A.P. Carter died, 1960
Gene Wooten died, 2001
8
Roy Lee Centers born, 1944 (died May 2, 1974)
Benny Cain died, 1998
Roger Reed born, 1953
Eddie Miller born, 1957 (died in auto accident on the way to IBMA, Oct. 3, 2001)
9
Bill Monroe records "Kentucky Mandolin", 1967
Richard Greene born, 1942
George D. Hay, the Opry's "Solemn Old Judge" born 1896.
10
David Akeman ("Stringbean") died (shot to death at his home), 1973
Bill Bryson born, 1946
11
Veterans Day
(For
song suggestions, click here)
Tut Taylor born, 1923
Don Stover died, 1996
13
Suggestion:
play "Pray for Rain" by Kane's River. The first line begins "On
the 13th of November ..."
Mike Bub born, 1964
Ernie Sykes born, 1960
14
Peter McLaughlin born, 1955
Judith Edelman born, 1964
15
Albert Brumley died, 1977
Robert Whitstein died, 2001
16
Osborne Brothers record "Rocky Top", 1967
Larry Cordle born, 1949
Earl Bolick born, 1919 (died 4/19/98)
17
Tom Adams born, 1958
Sally Ann Forrester died, 1999.
18
Jens Krüger born, 1962
20
Stanley Brothers record "The Fields Have Turned Brown", 1949
Senator Robert Byrd born, 1917
Josh Williams born, 1980
Charlie Cline died, 2004
Bill Vernon died, 1996
Randy Howard born, 1960 (died 6/29/99
21
Jim Eanes died, 1995
Flatt & Scruggs make first Columbia recordings, 1950
23
Charlie Sizemore born, 1960
Roy Acuff died, 1992
24
Jack Tottle born, 1939
Adam Steffey born, 1965
James Bryan born, 1953
25
Eddie Stubbs born, 1961
27
Thanksgiving
Day
For song suggestions, click here
Walter Bailes died, 2000
28
First Grand Ole Opry broadcast, 1925
Frank Edmonsen died, 2003
29
Randy Waller born, 1959
30
Homer "Pappy" Sherrill died, 2001
Jeannie Kendall born, 1954