Doug Dillard of the bluegrass band The Dillards died on Wednesday. May 16 in Nashville, after a lengthy illness. He found fame with the Dillards, playing on “The Andy Griffith Show,” under the name “The Darlings.” More info is here.
Pewee Valley’s Whiskey Bent Valley Boys answered a few questions for LMN:
Which is the first artist whose recordings you have all of?
“Stanley Brothers, Tommy Jerrell, Johnny Cash”
If you could keep audiences from saying one thing to you, what would
that be?
“Asking for man of constant sorrow from the movie brother where art thou’”
How many instruments of any kind have you owned and what was the oddest?
“between us all we have over 100 instrerments (sic), Mason has a huge collection of old time insterments, Gourd Banjo, Canjo’s , washtub bass”
Have you ever used your rent/food/other important money to buy an instrument instead? What was it?
“Sold house hold items to buy a old parlor style guitar , 10 years ago “
Do you think it would help you to learn more music theory? Why not?
“Music theory would help us any, the music we play is raw and traditional old time mtn music”
Where do you think you’ll be in five years?
“we will be playing and honoring the old musicians that wrote a lot of this old traditional music, and playing our hearts out, hope to have many more records released, and playing many festivals and dates.”
The band was on WHAS’ Great Day Live recently. You can watch and hear them here.
Ralph Stanley will play Headliners tonight and will no doubt sing “Man Of Constant Sorrow.” Watch this video of a performance of the song, with a young Keith Whitley on guitar:
It’s Adventure on the cover of the April edition of Louisville Music News, now in your favorite places around town. Also in this issue, Nelson Grube talks to harp man Eddy Weigleb; Eddy Metal goes on about venues plus the latest 502 hard rock news; Alexander Campbell continues his long series about Russian music and Kevin Gibson reviews the new Ultratone CD, A World With No Pain, plus Slim Chance’s Baldango release. There’s a review of the Devil Makes Three show at Uncle Slayton’s and Martin Kasdan Jr. has a wrap-up of the latest Louisville Jazz news.
Bluegrass favorite Larry Stephenson and his band will play the Shepherdsville Music Barn on Friday, March 30. Here’s a video of the band playing the classic bluegrass number “Mule Skinner Blues” just to whet your appetite.
The name might be a bit of a misnomer, since a raffle usually requires you to buy tickets to participate. In the case of the Forest Fest Banjo Raffle, it’s really just a giveaway and all you are required to do is to ‘Like’ the Forest Fest page on Facebook. The winning name will be drawn at the festival. Second place winner gets two banjos.
Bluegrass Anonymous’ Itchin’ To Pick event happened at the Galt House over the weekend. Here’s a bunch of photos
Peter Berkowitz interviews Scott Kirkpatrick (Chemic, Bro. Stephen), who has moved back to town. Berkowitz also has a long piece on Henry Rollins, who will appear at Headliners on March 20.
Finally, Berkowitz profiles the Whiskey Bent Valley Boys.









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