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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strong second--half performances by freshmen Lamar Flatt (nine points) and Calvin Dixon, both playing their first game for the Crimson, helped the hoopsters close the final...
Monroe's twice-a-day stage shows featured some of bluegrass's biggest names during the nine-day festival: the Osborne Brothers, Fiddlers Kenny Baker and Tex Logan, Banjoist Ralph Stanley and Guitarist Lester Flatt. Many of those present, however, were less interested in the stars onstage than in the chance to trade licks with fellow amateurs. Impromptu bluegrass bands sawed and plucked through the days and well into the nights. "Bluegrass is much more an amateur phenomenon than a professional one," noted Tom Adler, 30, an associate instructor at Indiana University's Folklore Institute...
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...Honky-Tonk Downstairs," retain much more country feeling than the electric music. These songs are Rusty Young's, and he acknowledges his pedal steel predecessors with some of the purest country steel guitar outside Nashville on "Honky-Tonk," and his own instrumental "Grand Junction," with its simple progression, and Flatt and Scruggs pickin' and grinnin' overall feeling. Paul Cotton's filling lines were excellent, and once they played a short line in unison, so well, that it drew a smile from Rusty, normally the most dour and visually understated of the band...
OVER the years, nearly every musician who has apprenticed with Bill Monroe has gone on to make a name for himself in the Blue Grass field. A partial list includes Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, Mac Wiseman, Carter Stanley, Benny Martin, Sonny Osborne, Jimmy Martin. Clyde Moody, Jim Eanes, Gordon Terry. Stringbean and Chubby Wise. Shortly after Bill Monroe's music began to be heard other musicians saw the possibilities the music had and borrowed from it. The Stanley Brothers were the first group to do this, followed by Flatt and Scruggs and Reno and Smiley. Soon there were...