Music comes in many different types and styles, ranging from traditional rock music to world pop, easy listening, and bluegrass. Many genres have a rich history or geographical significance, a cult following, or music roots far beyond the 20th century. What is a music genre? The Music Genres...
A highly respected banjo player originally from Norman, Oklahoma, Alan Munde has left a lasting impact on bluegrass music throughout his storied career. Munde's outstanding musicianship can be heard alongside bands such as Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys and Country Gazette. With his intric...
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band was also nominated for 2011 Entertainer of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association. In 2011, “Magic No. 9” (from Things That Fly) was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance. In 2018, they won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album...
This usually idiosyncratic country star has given us three old-school bluegrass LPs in the last year, all of them barnburners. On “Shamrock,” he lets his band absolutely pop off, while managing to not drown out the mouth harp. The world needs more mouth harp!
22:Roni Stoneman, an American banjo virtuosa who appeared regularly on the country music variety show “Hee Haw” as the gap-toothed Ida Lee Nagger, was a member of the Appalachian string band the Stoneman Family, and was recognized in 1957 as the first woman to record on bluegrass banjo,...
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* fiddle: a slang term for a violin in bluegrass, country music, and folk music. * fill (English): a jazz or rock term which instructs performers to improvise a scalar passage or riff to "fill in" the brief time between lyrical phrases, the lines of melody, or between two sections ...
jamboree, they were treated not to Delta blues but rather to upcountry bluegrass. For all its awkwardness, the film did give a reason for his suicide, one which dredges up a toxic stereotype, as Vito Russo puts it inThe Celluloid Closet,of gays “falling victim to their own inherently ...
It is the first LA venue to feature folk, blues, theater, bluegrass, and flamenco under one roof. 1959 Gidget, starring Sandra Dee as a white suburban teenager, helps turn surfing into a national pop craze. 1960 Twenty-seven-year-old R&B star Jesse Belvin dies in a suspicious car ...