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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction : from the big bang to the big time | |
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| The big bang, 1939-59 | |
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| Bossman Bill Monroe | |
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| Flatt and Scruggs | |
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| The Stanley Brothers | |
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| Interview with Don Reno | |
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| Jimmy Martin : You don't know my mind | |
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| From grass roots to bluegrass : some personal reminiscences | |
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| The Osborne Brothers - part two : getting it off | |
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| The grass is greener in the mountains | |
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| An introduction to bluegrass | |
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| Additions and corrections | |
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| Into bluegrass : the history of a word | |
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| Mountain music bluegrass style | |
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| Bristol's WCYB : early bluegrass turf | |
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| Jim Shumate - bluegrass fiddler supreme | |
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| Rudy Lyle - classic bluegrass banjo man | |
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| Late news report from Sunset Park, West Grove, Penn. : five-string banjo picking contest | |
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| Earl Taylor and Jim McCall : twenty bluegrass favorites - rural rhythm | |
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| Don Reno and Red Smiley | |
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| Bluegrass background : folk music with overdrive | |
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| The reseeding of bluegrass, 1960-79 | |
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| Bill Monroe - the daddy of blue grass music | |
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| Dayton bluegrass | |
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| In harmony with the hills : bluegrass pioneer Hazel Dickens struck a rich vein of music that's being mined still | |
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| The Lilly Brothers of Hillbilly Ranch | |
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| Working the Hillbilly Ranch | |
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| New York bluegrass | |
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| Dave Freeman and country records | |
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| Rockbluerollgrass/bluerockandrollgrass recordings | |
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| The country gentlemen | |
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| The Kentucky colonels | |
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| Kenny Baker | |
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| The Carlton Haney story | |
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| The plight of the bluegrass widow | |
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| Larry Sparks ... on the road | |
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| So you don't like the way we do it (or damn your tape recorder) | |
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| Believing in bluegrass | |
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| Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys : cry from the cross | |
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| Sam Bush | |
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| The bluegrass alliance | |
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| Old and in the way : Breakdown : original live recordings from 1973 - vol. 2 | |
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| Showing 'em how it's done | |
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| Bluegrass mandolin 1/3rd century later | |
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| Banjo playing : Reno, Thompson, Scruggs, Keith Style and beyond | |
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| Another roots revival, 1980-2000 | |
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| Hot rize : Pete Wernick's secret ingredient | |
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| Record reviews : The bluegrass album, vol. 2 | |
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| Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver : The original band | |
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| The Johnson Mountain Boys : At the old schoolhouse | |
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| Peter Rowan : wandering boy returns to his roots | |
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| The early days of bluegrass, vol. 117 (fiction) | |
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| An instrumentalist with a name | |
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| Country preview : from roots to wings - the Nashville bluegrass bands deference to tradition allows its music to soar | |
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| IBMA's world of bluegrass | |
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| Country artist of the year : Alison Krauss | |
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| Focusing on the music, not on those playing it | |
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| It's all in the emotion : Dale Ann Bradley is 'real deal' bluegrass | |
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| Little darlin's not my name : women in bluegrass | |
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| Is there a link between bluegrass musicianship and sexuality? | |
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| 'Women in bluegrass' : keynote address at the IBMA trade show | |
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| Keynote : 'bones to pick' | |
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| First Christmas without Bill | |
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| From True adventures with the King of Bluegrass | |
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| Fiddling and picking his way to perfection | |
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| Going back to Old Kentucky : Ricky Skaggs rediscovers the rules of bluegrass | |
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| Progress rooted in tradition : Del McCoury talks about work with Bill Monroe, Steve Earle | |
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| Annals of bluegrass : constant sorrow - the long road of Ralph Stanley | |
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| Index | |