September 2008
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 "The Little One Room Schoolhouse" by the Bressler Brothers (Prime Cuts, Vol. 53)
1
Labor Day
(For
song suggestions, click here)
Gary Gordon (the Gordons) born, 1953
2
Buck "Uncle Josh" Graves first recording with Flatt and Scruggs, 1955
3-5
Carlton Haney's first 3-day bluegrass festival, 1965 (in Fincastle, VA)
4
Bill Monroe records "Blue Moon of Kentucky" for Decca, 1954
Harold "Shot" Jackson born, 1920
Fiddler Gordon Terry died, 2006
Randy Graham born, 1946
5
Ron Thomasson born, 1944
6
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.")
7
Grandparents Day
Play "Lena May" by Randy Kohrs "Old
Photograph" CD
Barry Poss
(Sugar Hill Records) born, 1944
8
"Singing Brakeman" Jimmie Rodgers born, 1897 in Meridian, Mississippi
(died 5/6/33).
9
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
10
Matthew Allred died, 2006
11
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.
12
John McGann born, 1959
13
Bill Monroe born, 1911, Rosine, KY (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
14
Bill Harrell born, 1934
Tim Stafford born, 1960
Rick Pardue born, 1952
Herb Trotman born, 1944
15
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
16
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
17
Walden Dahl born, 1952
18
Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year 5762)
Carl Jackson born, 1953
Ervin Rouse born, 1917 (died 7/8/81)
Bea Lilly died, 2005
19
Kenny Smith born, 1967
Clyde Moody born, 1915
Kathy Kallick born, 1952
20
Charles Sawtelle born, 1946 (died 3/20/99)
21
Ginger Boatwright born, 1944
Shawn Lane born, 1971
22
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.)
Wiley Morris (of the Morris Brothers) dies, 1990.
Pop Lewis born, 1905
Wiley Morris died, 1990
Jimmy Stoneman died, 2002
23
Steve Scruggs died, 1992
24
Kevin Church born, 1963
Flatt & Scruggs record "Ballad of Jed Clampett", 1962
Paul Mullins born, 1936 (died 8/3/2008)
Larry Gillis born, 1962
25
Steve Thomas born, 1962
Larry Sparks born, 1947
Charlie Leet born, 1944
26
Lynn Anderson born, 1947
27
Josh Graves born, 1928 (Died 9/30/06)
Play "Pickin' on Josh" by the Steep
Canyon Rangers from their "Lovin' Pretty Women" CD
Wreck of the Old 97 near Danville, VA, 1903
Charlie Monroe died, 1975
28
Ronnie Reno born, 1947
Laurie Lewis born, 1950
29
Dan Crary born, 1939
30
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.