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1918 |
The National Washboard Co. received US patent 1283148 and design patent 52236 for their wood frame and glass rubbing surface. By the 1960s the company was out of business. Links: USA, Bluegrass, Patent 
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1943 |
Roy Acuff, country music superstar, invited the governor of Tennessee to a party. Gov. Prentice Cooper snubbed him saying that he and his awful musicians were making Tennessee “the hillbilly capital of the United States.” Links: USA, Tennessee, Bluegrass
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1959 |
Live music began in Branson, Missouri, about this time with the Baldknobbers Hillbilly Jamboree, named for the local 19th century masked vigilantes. Links: USA, Missouri, Bluegrass
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1966 |
Pete Kuykendall (1938-2017), banjoist, guitarist and song writer, co-founded the publication “Bluegrass Unlimited” as a mimeographed newsletter. Four years later he turned the fan publication into a glossy monthly magazine. Links: USA, Bluegrass
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1970 |
Bill Monroe was named to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Links: USA, Pop&Rock, Bluegrass
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1971 |
John Duffey (1934-1996) formed his Seldom Scene bluegrass group. He had played with Charlie Waller and the Country Gentlemen. Links: USA, Bluegrass
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1978 |
Charles Sawtelle (d.1999 at 52) helped found the Hot Rize bluegrass group, named after an ingredient in the Martha White Self-Rising Flour. The Hot Rize product had been promoted for years by bluegrass legends Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Links: USA, Pop&Rock, Bluegrass
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1981 |
Ricky Scaggs made a move from bluegrass to commercial country music. Links: USA, Pop&Rock, Bluegrass
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1985 |
Pete Kuykendall (1938-2017), co-founder the publication “Bluegrass Unlimited” (1966), co-founded the Int’l. Bluegrass Music Association. Links: USA, Bluegrass
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1989 |
Bill Monroe received the first Grammy Award for the Best Bluegrass Recording of the year. Links: USA, Bluegrass
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1995 May 18 |
Gordon Reynolds (74), musician, died. Links: Bluegrass, Classical Music
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1996 Sep 9 |
Bill Monroe (b.1911), Blue Grass pioneer, died 4 days shy of his 85th b-day. His blues style was much influenced by the thumb-style blues guitar picking of a black musician named Arnold Schultz. In 2000 Richard D. Smith authored the biography "Can’t You Hear me Callin’." Links: Blues, Biography, Bluegrass
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1998 Mar |
Jimbo Trout started his bluegrass jam at the Atlas Café in San Francisco. Links: USA, SF, Bluegrass
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1998 Apr 15 |
Rose Maddox (b.1926), US country singer, died in Ashland, Oregon. In her last decade she was backed by the bluegrass Vern Williams Band. Links: USA, Oregon, Bluegrass
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2003 Apr 22 |
Felice Bryant (77), bluegrass song writer, died in Gatlinburg, Tenn. She and her late husband wrote such tunes as "Bye Bye Love" and other Everly Brothers hits and "Rocky Top" (1968). Links: Pop&Rock, Bluegrass
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2005 Aug 16 |
Vassar Clements (77), fiddle virtuoso, died in Nashville, Ten. He recorded on more than 2,000 albums in various styles from bluegrass to classical. Links: Bluegrass
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2005 Sep 8 |
A symposium at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ky., brought together scholars from 17 states and three countries to discuss bluegrass music. Links: Kentucky, Bluegrass
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2005 Oct 1 2005 Oct 2 |
In SF financier Warren Hellman sponsored the 5th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. Links: USA, SF, Bluegrass
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2006 May 26 |
Cy Coben, American song writer, died in California. His songs included “A Good Woman’s Love” sung by Bill Monroe and other, and “Red Hot Women and Ice Cold Beer” sing by New Riders of the Purple Sage in 1977. Links: USA, Pop&Rock, Bluegrass
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2006 Jun 6 |
Vern Williams, singer and bluegrass mandolin player, died in San Andreas, Ca. He partnered with fiddler Ray Park (1933-2002) from about 1960-1974 as Vern and Ray. Their albums included “Sounds from the Ozarks” (1974). Links: USA, California, Bluegrass
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2006 Oct 7 |
Fleet Week in SF featured a waterfront parade of US and Canadian ships as well as an air show. The 2-day Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival opened in Golden Gate Park. Links: USA, SF, SF Bay Area, Bluegrass
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2007 Oct 7 |
In SF the annual weekend Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, sponsored by Warren Hellman, ended in Golden Gate Park. Links: USA, SF, Bluegrass
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2008 Oct 4 |
In SF the 8th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, backed by financier Warren Hellman, continued or its 2nd day in Goldengate Park with an audience of some 40,000. The next day the festival drew some 100,000 fans. SF also celebrated its annual LoveFest, begun in 2004, with a downtown parade that drew tens of thousands of spectators. Links: USA, SF, Pop&Rock, Bluegrass
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2009 Dec 7 |
Rick Hendricks, SF-based composer and steel guitar player, passed away of brain cancer as a huge gathering of the musical cohorts and many friends assembled at the Amnesia club, San Francisco's home of bluegrass and roots music, on Valencia Street. Links: USA, SF, Pop&Rock, Bluegrass
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2010 Oct 3 |
San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, sponsored by financier Warren Hellman, drew some 350,000 listeners to Golden Gate Park. The 10th annual weekend festival drew some 600,000 all together. Links: USA, SF, Bluegrass
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2012 Mar 28 |
Earl Scruggs (b.1924), bluegrass banjo player, died in Nashville. He helped shape the sound of 20th-century country music. His “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” with guitarist Lester Flatt was used as the getaway music in the film “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967). Links: USA, Tennessee, Bluegrass
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2013 Oct 4 |
In San Francisco the 13th edition of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival began its 3-day run in Golden Gate Park. Links: USA, SF, Bluegrass
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2015 Jan 2 |
Little Jimmy Dickens (b.1920), former singer with the Grand Ole Opry, died in Nashville. His hit songs included ”Take an Old Cold Tater” (1949), “Out Behind the Barn” (1954) and “May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose” (1965). Links: USA, Tennessee, Bluegrass
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2016 Jun 23 |
Ralph Stanley (b.1927), a patriarch of bluegrass music, died in Matoaca, Virginia. He and his brother had formed the Stanley Brothers and their Clinch Mountain Boys in 1946. Links: USA, Virginia, Bluegrass
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2017 Aug 24 |
Pete Kuykendall (b.1938), musician and co-founder of the publication “Bluegrass Unlimited” (1966), died in Warrenton, Va. Links: USA, Virginia, Bluegrass
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2019 Feb 24 |
Mac Wiseman (b.1925), bluegrass balladeer and guitar player, died in Nashville. He was a founding member of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs' Foggy Mountain Boys. His biggest hits included "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" (1955). Links: USA, Tennessee, Bluegrass
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2021 Jul 17 |
Byron Berline, master fiddler, died in Oklahoma City. He fused bluegrass, jazz and rock as was a member of the National Fiddler Hall of Fame. Links: USA, Oklahoma, Bluegrass
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