Posts Tagged ‘Bill Monroe’

Jim Rooney To Receive Lifetime Achievement For Producer/Engineer

8TH ANNUAL AMERICANA HONORS & AWARDS NASHVILLE, AUG. 6, 2009 — The Americana Music Association proudly announces that Jim Rooney will receive the Lifetime Achievement for Producer/Engineer award at the 8th Annual Americana Honors & Awards ceremony, scheduled for Thurs., Sept. 17 at the...

August 12th, 2009 | Honors & Awards | Read More

Charlie Haden with Family and Friends "Rambling Boy" Decca Records

By Joseph Scott Charlie Haden’s place in music history is secure. As the bassist with Ornette Coleman on the avant-garde masterpiece The Shape of Jazz to Come, Mr. Haden’s “harmelodic” style of bass playing broke new ground and shed new light on just what could be done on an...

December 3rd, 2008 | Record Reviews | Read More

Patrick McAvinue "Rutland's Reel" Patuxent Music

by Joseph Scott Patrick McAvinue gets the fiddle. That isn’t just to say he can play one, though he most assuredly can. But he also understand the fiddle’s history in and importance to bluegrass, and to country music in general. And he aims with every performance to make his audience understand...

November 7th, 2008 | Record Reviews | Read More

Earl Scruggs

Just a few quick facts about the mighty Earl Scruggs; 1) Earl Scruggs was born in Shelby, North Carolina in Cleveland County. 2) Earl began pickin’ on the banjo at age four and by the age of ten he had developed the infamous “Scruggs style” (amongst other names) banjo picking style. 3) Ol’ Earl...