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A blog for bluegrass fans to talk about bluegrass or whatever and to check up on the Java Brothers Bluegrass Band from Radford, Virginia. We are progressive, but pretty much only to the extent that we'll play new songs as hard driving bluegrass. We love Bill Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, The Seldom Scene, JD Crowe, Tony Rice, Sam Bush, the Country Gentlemen, the Beatles, the Stones, and all the greats.
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Side Door Sessions
We've got a big show planned for October 15th, 2011. The Java Brothers and the Porch Loungers will be there, and other friends, too! As usual, doors open at 7 and music starts at 7:30.
We're always looking for more acts and ways to improve the Sessions. Please send all suggestions to me at chris.burgoyne@gmail.com. I'd love to hear from you.
Hugs and kisses!
And just because I like it, and sometimes I want to know, here's the time right now in Manila!
We've got a big show planned for October 15th, 2011. The Java Brothers and the Porch Loungers will be there, and other friends, too! As usual, doors open at 7 and music starts at 7:30.
We're always looking for more acts and ways to improve the Sessions. Please send all suggestions to me at chris.burgoyne@gmail.com. I'd love to hear from you.
Hugs and kisses!
And just because I like it, and sometimes I want to know, here's the time right now in Manila!
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- It's just about time!
- Got to be da Guvna!
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4 comments:
This is video of a bluegrass show in NC from the 70's. The ole master pretty much has 'em all beat, but there are a few good ones in there. Ya know, Sonny Osborne could really play himself. Not sure he gets as much credit for it now, like he did when the Osborne's were more popular. Certainly, he doesn't continue to get credit like Earl does.
Love the Osborne Bros. Sam Bush credits them as much as anyone for starting Newgrass. I would've loved to have seen them in their prime. Bobby is still playing, but Sonny, I think, is retired.
They probably did as much to get me started as anyone. I can remember seeing them at least 3 times in a 6 month period when I was about 8 years old. Matter of fact, after the 3rd show, we were in line for autographs (which I no longer have) and Sonny said something to my mom about seeing us before. They could really get moving with some of their stuff. Maybe some of my high singing comes from the Bobby influence.
The Osbornes, Jim and Jesse and the Country Gentlemen probably don't get the love from the hippies the way NGR did.
If you talk to any BG picker who got their start in the 60s, many of them will talk about the Country Gentlemen as being the band that inspired them. When you consider the Seldom Scene spun out of the CG, and when add the no. of people influenced by the Scene to those influenced by the CG, then you have to say that John Duffey is one of the most important BG musicians of all time.
In addition to the Osbornes, I'd add John Hartford's Aeroplane Band from 1971 as a big link between the old and new. "Aereo-Plain" ranks right up there with Sgt. Pepper and Dark Side of the Moon, in my book!
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