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The funky beat of musical New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — The cab careened past Washington Square and onto Frenchmen Street. It was close to 10 p.m., and the neighborhood was filled with locals adorned with tattoos, piercings and lots of ragged black accessories. "The cab drivers call this...
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Doug Dillard dies at 75; banjo player, member of the Dillards band
Bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs answered a knock at the door of his Nashville home in 1953 to find an eager-looking banjo enthusiast on the porch asking Scruggs to put a set of his special tuner keys on the young man's instrument.
"He was so...Tags: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Concerts, Lungs and Airways, Andy Griffith, Music Industry
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Banjo picker Doug Dillard dies at 75; appeared on 'Andy Griffith'
Pop & HissBluegrass banjo player Doug Dillard has died at 75. With the Dillards, Doug Dillard helped popularize bluegrass music in the 1960s during appearances on "The Andy Griffith Show" and contributed to the birth of country-rock music.... -
Stagecoach 2012: Steve Martin goes whole hog in Indio
Pop & HissIt was with some sense of deja vu that Steve Martin pulled into Stagecoach for a performance Saturday that had him and the Steep Canyon Rangers slotted to play immediately after bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley, a situation similar to one for which... -
Stagecoach 2012: Some highlights -- Miranda Lambert, Dave Alvin
Pop & HissHighlights from the first two days of the 2012 Stagecoach Country Music Festival include performances by Miranda Lambert, Steve Martin, Blake Shelton and Jason Aldean. The Mavericks reunion and roots-rock singer-songwriter Dave Alvin also provided... -
PASSINGS: Frank Javorsek, Warren Stevens
Frank Javorsek Bluegrass player co-owned music store Frank Javorsek, 70, a bluegrass musician who co-owned the now-closed Blue Ridge Pickin' Parlor music shop in the San Fernando Valley and hosted a bluegrass radio show on KCSN-FM, died March 22 of a...Tags: Warren Stevens, Concerts, World War II (1939-1945), Celebrities, Humphrey Bogart
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Earl Scruggs dies at 88; banjo legend was half of Flatt & Scruggs
Bill Monroe, the man widely acknowledged as the father of bluegrass music, was in search of a new banjo player for his famed Blue Grass Boys when a young musician turned up backstage at Nashville's celebrated Ryman Auditorium during a 1945 Grand Ole...Tags: Concerts, John Fogerty, Joan Baez, Elton John, Country and Western (genre)
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Warren Hellman dies at 77; San Francisco financier, bluegrass fan
Reporting from San Francisco -- Warren Hellman, a San Francisco financier, philanthropist and bluegrass enthusiast who lavished his city with a free concert that grew into one of the nation's largest music festivals, died Sunday of complications from...Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Dolly Parton, World War II (1939-1945), Billy Bragg
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Steve Martin to score Shakespeare's 'As You Like It'
Culture MonsterThe actor-author-musician Steve Martin has been tapped to compose original folk-style music for the Shakespeare in the Park production of “As You Like It,” at the Delacorte Theater June 5 to 30.... -
Earl Scruggs, bluegrass legend, dies at age 88
Pop & HissEarl Scruggs: Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs has died at 88.... -
Earl Scruggs: Remembering a bluegrass and American music legend
Pop & HissRemembering bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs, who died on Wednesday at age 88. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts explores the legendary American musician's influence.... -
Earl Scruggs laid a foundation for others to build on, Marty Stuart says
Pop & HissEarl Scruggs created a foundation for progressive musicians to build on. Bela Fleck is an example of one who took the banjo to new heights because of what Earl Scruggs created before him....
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