Bluegrass Bios September

September 2013
"Worldwide Bluegrass Music Month"

For the beginning of football season, play "The Great Joe Bob" by The Country Gazette (on their "Hello Operator" album) or "Drop Kick Me Jesus" by Paul Craft (on his "Too Bad You're No Good" CD).

For the start of school, play "Late For School" by Steve Martin (on his "The Crow" CD) or "The Little One Room Schoolhouse" by the Bressler Brothers (Prime Cuts, Vol. 53)

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First day of the first bluegrass festival, 1965 (Carlton Haney's Fincastle, VA festival)

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Bill Monroe records "Blue Moon of Kentucky" for Decca, 1954
Harold "Shot" Jackson born, 1920
Fiddler Gordon Terry died, 2006
Randy Graham born, 1946
Trisha Gagnon born, 1962

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John Herald born, 1939 (died 7/18/2005)
Buzz Busby born, 1933 (died, 2003)
Roy Huskey, Jr. died, 1997
(Play "Song for Roy" on Sam Bush "Howlin' at the Moon" album.)
President Wm. McKinley shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, 1901
(Play "McKinley's Gone" / "White House Blues.")

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"Singing Brakeman" Jimmie Rodgers born, 1897 in Meridian, Mississippi (died 5/6/33).

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Bill Monroe died, 1996
For song suggestions, click here.
C.F. Martin III born, 1894 (died June 15, 1986)
Paul Adkins born, 1952
James King born, 1958

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Richard Bailey born, 1961
Dave Hardy born, 1955
Terrorists strike America, 2001.
Play "Mama, Will You Call My Daddy" by Doug Bartlett on Prime Cuts, Vol. 54; "911" by Lawrence Bishop on "White Horse Rider" album, "When the Twin Towers Fell" by the New Roanoke Jug Band; "Smoke on the Water" by the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band.

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Bill Monroe born, 1911 (died 9/9/96)
For song suggestions, click here.
Willis Spears (lead singer with the Nashville Grass) born, 1940
Lou Reid born, 1954
Willis Spears born, 1940
Joe Stuart died, 1987
Wilma Lee Cooper died, 2011

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Yom Kippur
Bill Harrell born, 1934
Tim Stafford born, 1960
Rick Pardue born, 1952
Herb Trotman born, 1944
Lloyd Loar died, 1943

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Roy Acuff born, 1903 (died 11/23/92)
Play "Old Roy and Brother Oz" by the Osborne Brothers ("Class of "96" album).
Stanley Bros. record "How Far to Little Rock", 1959
John Bowman born, 1970

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The "original" bluegrass band (Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Chubby Wise and Howard Watts) records for the first time, 1946.
Barry Mitterhof born, 1952

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Carl Jackson born, 1953
Ervin Rouse born, 1917 (died 7/8/81)
Bea Lilly died, 2005

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Carlton Haney born, 1928 (died 3/16/2011)
Kenny Smith born, 1967
Clyde Moody born, 1915
Kathy Kallick born, 1952

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Ginger Boatwright born, 1944
Shawn Lane born, 1971
Daryl Mosely born, 1964
Rual Yarbrough died, 2010

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Autumn Begins
Play "Leaves Fall" by Chris Thile, "Summertime is Past and Gone" or "When Those Golden Leaves Begin to Fall" by Bill Monroe or "The Summer's Come and Gone" by Jimmy Martin or "The Fall" by the Circuit Riders, or "Bring Back Yesterday" by Bobby Osborne (begins with "I always hate to see the start of Autumn")
Wiley Morris (of the Morris Brothers) dies, 1990.
Pop Lewis born, 1905
Wiley Morris died, 1990
Jimmy Stoneman died, 2002

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Steve Scruggs died, 1992
Jack Dempsey lost to Gene Tunney in World Heavyweight fight, 1926 (play "Jack Dempsey's Crown" by Jim Lauderdale, from his "Reason and Rhyme" CD).

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Kevin Church born, 1963
Flatt & Scruggs record "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", 1962
Paul Mullins born, 1936 (died 8/3/2008)
Larry Gillis born, 1962

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24th Annual IBMA Awards Show in Raleigh, North Carolina
Lynn Anderson born, 1947

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Josh Graves born, 1928 (Died 9/30/06)
Play "Pickin' on Josh" by the Steep Canyon Rangers from their "Lovin' Pretty Women" CD or "The Music of the Man" by LeRoy Mack from his "Stories" CD.
Wreck of the Old 97 near Danville, VA, 1903
Charlie Monroe died, 1975

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Marty Stuart born, 1958
Carmella Ramsey born, 1972
Phil Rosenthal born, 1948
Josh Graves died, 2006
Play "Pickin' on Josh" by the Steep Canyon Rangers from their "Lovin' Pretty Women" CD
Stanley Brothers record "How Mountain Girls Can Love," 1958

Now would be a good time to play "September's End" from Northern Lights' "Can't Buy Your Way" album.