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Bluegrass Memoirs: Visiting Rusty York (Part 2)(Editor’s note: All inset photos by Carl Fleischhauer.) In my previous memoir I described what I knew of Rusty York when Carl Fleischhauer and I arrived at his Jewel Recording Studios in Mt. Healthy, Ohio, on the afternoon of August 15, 1972. We had walked into the midst of a…
Bluegrass Memoirs: Visiting Rusty York (Part 1)On the afternoon of Tuesday August 15, 1972, the day after Carl Fleischhauer and I interviewed J.D. Crowe in Lexington, Kentucky, we dropped in on Rusty York at his Jewel Recording Studios in Mt. Healthy, Ohio, a small city just north of Cincinnati. [caption id="attachment_60476" align="aligncenter" width="1240"] The Jewel Recording…
Bluegrass Memoirs: Lexington, Kentucky and J.D. Crowe, 1972[Editor’s note: All photos by Carl Fleischhauer, except publicity shot of Esco Hankins] On the afternoon of Sunday, August 13, 1972, Carl Fleischhauer and I were in Jackson, Kentucky, at the finale of Bill Monroe’s Kentucky Bluegrass festival where we’d been since Friday. In my notes, I wrote: We left…
Bluegrass Memoirs: Jackson, Kentucky Bluegrass[Editor's note: Photos by Carl Fleischhauer] On Monday August 7, 1972, with fresh memories of Maritimes old-time and bluegrass, I drove from New Brunswick to New England to join my wife and kids, who were house-sitting for my in-laws in Norwich, Vermont. On Thursday the 10th I headed south. A…
Bluegrass MemoirsAug 11, 2021
Editor's note: Read part one of Industrial Strength Bluegrass and the Dayton Bluegrass Reunion here In 1987 I became involved with CityFolk's Dayton Bluegrass Reunion, "An All-Star Salute to Dayton's 40 Year Bluegrass History." Between October 1987 and March 1989, I worked by mail and telephone to help shape the Reunion, planned for April 1989. …
Bluegrass MemoirsJun 25, 2021
On April 22, 1989, Cityfolk, a Dayton, Ohio-based concert series, mounted their most ambitious evening to date, The Dayton Bluegrass Reunion, "An All-Star Salute to Dayton's 40 Year Bluegrass History." It was held at Memorial Hall in downtown Dayton. I'm reminded of this concert now because of an essay I wrote for its program booklet:…
Bluegrass MemoirsApr 30, 2021
(Editor's note: Read part one of Neil V. Rosenberg's Bluegrass Memoir on the Earl Scruggs Celebration of 1987 here. Read part two here.) Boiling Springs, NC on Saturday, September 26, 1987: My workshop in the Gardner-Webb College Library with Snuffy Jenkins, Pappy Sherrill and the Hired Hands ended at 4:30 that afternoon when Dan X.…
Bluegrass MemoirsApr 2, 2021
(Editor's note: Read part 1 of Neil V. Rosenberg's series on the 1987 Earl Scruggs Celebration here.) My diary for Saturday September 26, 1987 -- Earl Scruggs Celebration day at Gardner-Webb College in Boiling Springs, North Carolina -- begins with an entry on foodways: I meet Tom (Hanchett) and Carol (Sawyer) at 7:30 and we…
Bluegrass MemoirsFeb 10, 2021
I first heard the music of Etta Baker on a record in 1957. Not until thirty years later did I see her perform live, in the context of a bluegrass-oriented event, on September 26, 1987 at Gardner-Webb College's Second Annual Earl Scruggs Music Celebration. Gardner-Webb (G-W) is in Boiling Springs, N.C., an hour's drive south…
