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    • 15 Ratings
    • 1194 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    How Earl Scruggs Changed My Life

    APRIL 2, 2012 7:49AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: banjo, earl scruggs, scruggs style, banjo picking, country music, bluegrass, beverly hillbillies, true story

    • 7 Ratings
    • 390 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Remembering Earl Scruggs

    MARCH 30, 2012 10:31PM

    By Rodney Roe


    Topics: music, bluegrass, earl scruggs, icons, trailblazers, banjo

    • 2 Ratings
    • 146 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Banjo Face

    AUGUST 25, 2011 1:54PM

    By Kate Mohler


    Topics: music, comedy, teaching, flagstaff, bluegrass, steve martin

    • 1 Ratings
    • 194 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    The La La La of Anodyne

    MAY 4, 2011 10:16AM

    By Jayne Guertin


    Topics: music, blues, bluegrass, soul, country, pokey lafarge and the south city three

    • 1 Ratings
    • 201 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    He thought his cheap bass was no good.

    JANUARY 7, 2011 11:34PM

    By Jacques Delaguerre


    Topics: music, bluegrass, bass, standup, contrabass, family

    • 18 Ratings
    • 468 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Daughters of F

    NOVEMBER 1, 2010 6:54AM

    By scupper


    Topics: decades, bluegrass, kmae

    • 11 Ratings
    • 684 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    An Apple for Mr. Bellhouse

    OCTOBER 18, 2010 9:33AM

    By Theresa Rice


    Topics: bluegrass, cornelia ga, georgia history, the great fried apple pie rebellion, dried apples, dried apple recipe, skc apple feast

    • 1 Ratings
    • 929 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Jerry Garcia Week 2010: The Days Between

    AUGUST 1, 2010 2:20PM

    By Hal_M


    Topics: roosevelt stadium, rock, richard dreyfuss, n.j., mr. holland's opus, john coltrane, jersey city, jerry garcia week, jerry garcia, happy birthday, grateful dead, gospel, folk, days between, blues for allah, bluegrass, august 9, august 1, 1973

    • 0 Ratings
    • 2013 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Review: Steve Martin and Ralph Stanley at Carnegie Hall

    OCTOBER 7, 2009 11:18PM

    By Evan Kessler


    Topics: bluegrass, ralph stanley, steve martin, reviews, music

    • 9 Ratings
    • 2845 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Great Smoky Mountain Bourbon Praline Sweet Tater Pie

    AUGUST 12, 2009 11:25AM

    By Stephen McGuire


    Topics: pretty good eatin', ice cream, pie crust, bluegrass, limestone water, sweet taters, native americans, sweat lodge, fast women, horses, marquis de lafayette, fayette county, bourbon, bourbon county, paris

    • 6 Ratings
    • 869 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Another kind of patriotism

    JULY 2, 2009 4:43PM

    By Kevin Lee


    Topics: open call, food/drink, food, literature, bluegrass, blues, culture, arts, south, america, patriotism, jazz, fourth of july

    • 3 Ratings
    • 603 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    A century of America's best

    JUNE 7, 2009 7:45PM

    By Kevin Lee


    Topics: avant garde, blues, folk, rock, pop, soul, bluegrass, country, jazz, big band, opera, broadway, classical, america, the npr 100, music

    • 0 Ratings
    • 458 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Widow's Bane: Me as MC, Father Patty O'BrĂ³

    JUNE 7, 2009 5:10PM

    By TwitterBard


    Topics: rock, bluegrass, gothic, music

    • 3 Ratings
    • 735 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    The Greener Grass of the Bluegrass

    APRIL 23, 2009 5:12PM

    By Kasia Pater


    Topics: keeneland, bluegrass, observation

    • Editor's Pick
    • 33 Ratings
    • 4287 Views
    • 60 Comments
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    To Odetta

    DECEMBER 4, 2008 3:03PM

    By Lea Lane


    Topics: odetta, rosa parks, bob dylan, bruce springsteen, martin luther king, virginia, the crooked road, bristol, bluegrass, carnegie hall, johnny cash, feminism, travel, people

    • 0 Ratings
    • 313 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Living In Moneyland

    AUGUST 14, 2008 1:03AM

    By Randolph Cooper


    Topics: politics, music, economy, poverty, bluegrass

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