Lester Flatt’s Martin D-18 – considered the first ever bluegrass guitar – set to headline massive auction of over 400 historic guitars
The collection includes a little over 400 lots, but few stand as significant as Flatt’s D-18. It is considered the very first ...
The 1942 Martin D-18 that Lester Flatt used to forge the sound of bluegrass is going up for auction
Legendary fingerpicker Flatt wielded this D-18 while he played with Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys, and used it to help pave ...
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4 Country Music Legends Who Started in Bluegrass
Bluegrass inspired modern country music in a huge way, so it makes sense that these four legends got their start in the ...
Leonard’s Losers
The show claimed to raise your pigskin IQ. To get my weekly prescription of smart pills, I’d tune in the crackling, AM ...
How the Grand Ole Opry is weathering the fallout of country's genre-redefining popularity
Country's new breakout stars like Dasha, Jelly Roll and Post Malone are evolving perceptions of the genre at its century-old ...
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Earl Scruggs Would’ve Turned 100 This Year. Bluegrass Is Still Playing His Songs
In 1979, a 20-year-old Stuart was hanging out in Nashville with Bob Dylan, who asked Stuart if the iconic bluegrass duo of Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt ever talked anymore. Stuart ...
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52 and counting: A love affair with the Walnut Valley Festival
Wayne Steadham, who has attended the Walnut Valley Festival every year since 1972, says the campground culture is the ...
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How the Grand Ole Opry is weathering the fallout of country's genre-redefining popularity
The last time the Grand Ole Opry had so many new artists making debut performances, Marty Stuart was a 13-year-old bluegrass prodigy rubbing shoulders with Lester Flatt and Gram Parsons.