Word: bluegrass
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DIED. VASSAR CLEMENTS, 77, low-key, genre-busting bluegrass fiddler whose inability to read music didn't impede a lengthy career that included high-profile gigs with Paul McCartney, B.B. King and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, among others; of cancer; in Nashville...
...Peyroux's singing, what's old is new again. Born in Athens, Ga., she has a gut feeling for "the good old reminiscence of Southern music"--country and bluegrass, the blues, early jazz. In her albums and live shows, she includes tunes once owned by figures like Bessie Smith, Hank Williams and of course Holiday. At the same time, she features the work of such contemporaries as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, not to mention her originals. What is the common element in all these songs, other than the musical alchemy by which she makes them her own? "I could...
...song reflected a lot of Oldham’s own tendencies, including his bizarrely overt and yet endearing tendency to inject sexual references into otherwise Platonic enough songs of love lost and found (well, mostly lost). The group followed this cover with a beautiful, shuffling version of pre-bluegrass classic “Happy In Prison,” Oldham and Sweeney singing, “For a cross receive a crown,” tying religion into the lyrical framework (as Bonnie himself often does), blurring listeners’ conception of who he is and what he stands...
...Cousin Lynn” Joiner ’61 flips through a shelf of bluegrass records nestled deep in the woodwork of the WHRB headquarters, picking up one album after another and looking them over lovingly...
Almost every Saturday morning since 1975, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., WHRB has filled the waves with traditional country, bluegrass, folk, Cajun, and Tex-Mex tunes, spun by Joiner and his late co-host Brian “Ol’ Sinc” Sinclair...