by Patrick Campbell | Dec 2, 2021 | Bluegrass Musicians
Bill Keith and Earl Scruggs and their collaboration to create Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo (Peer International Corporation, New York. 1968). This book, a collaboration between Earl Scruggs, Bill Keith and Burt Brent, is the first serious and certainly...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 28, 2021 | Welcome Column
I was going through the newspaper a few years ago and I came across an article about how the east bay city of Albany relocated homeless people from a waterfront peninsula called the bulb in order to make way for a new park extension. A couple dozen or so of the last...
by Maggie Sokolik | Nov 26, 2021 | Bluegrass History, Welcome Column
Digging through the archives, I found this article by Lon Suiter, which appeared in the 1986 Bluegrass Breakdown. It presents an interesting slice of perhaps lesser-known bluegrass history. There is a lot of music referenced in this article, much of which is readily...
by Patrick Campbell | Nov 24, 2021 | Announcements
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On? Broadcast on www.KALW.org (91.7 FM) on Nov. 27, 2021, 5-6 pm (Pacific Time) Available on demand for one week via www.KALW.org/local-music-player (select ‘Bluegrass Signal’) First hour broadcast four times...
by Bruce Campbell | Nov 24, 2021 | Welcome Column
The way this year has gone, it almost sounds like the title of this column is a joke. Nothing could be further from the truth. First of all, I’m sorry to post this a little late – I was renewing my CBA membership, and I am thankful the CBA has rallied this year...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 22, 2021 | Welcome Column
“There are no mistakes in playing music. Only notes you didn’t intend to play. If you find a note you don’t like, well, don’t play that one next time.” (Dan Levenson) We all know what bad mistakes are. They happen all the time. We wanted to do something good and...
by Patrick Campbell | Nov 20, 2021 | Bluegrass Musicians
The Single-string Playing of Eddie Adcock and Don Reno. I met Eddie Adcock about 1990 when he was one of the great acts there at the World of Bluegrass when it was based in Owensboro, Kentucky, His band at that time included the award-winning rhythm guitarist Martha...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 19, 2021 | Welcome Column
Everybody knows the term “red neck”. It’s usually used in a derogatory fashion to refer to unsophisticated southerners. Hillbilly. Cracker. White trash. Not something you’d want to be it seems, and yet some southerners have adopted the term to...
by Bruce Campbell | Nov 17, 2021 | Welcome Column
Growing up, I remember that there were always a few dads in the neighborhood who were really good with their hands. Of course, it seems that ALL the dads in the ‘hood could build a fence if needed, and probably a doghouse, or maybe a birdhouse. But there were some...
by Patrick Campbell | Nov 15, 2021 | General News, J.D.'s Kitchen
Kathy’s putting the finishing touches on an her second album of songs learned from her mother, Dodi Kallick. Unlike My Mother’s Voice, this one includes some performances by Dodi herself, mostly from The Midnight Special radio show in the 1960s. The new release also...
