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Trailblazers of Bluegrass: Icons Who Defined a Genre
His ensemble, The Blue Grass Boys, was a band and a platform for several bluegrass prodigies like Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs to showcase their brilliance. There's something celestial about Alison ...
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 ...
American Songwriter2d
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 ...
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 ...
High Plains Public Radio6d
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 ...
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 ...