Post a Pic from the Past

**BBarton** · Sep-21-2005, 10:21pm

These are absolutely wonderful photos! #Thanks for taking the time and trouble to share them with all of us.

**batman** · Sep-22-2005, 11:42am

Great job Darryl, It's kinda hard to remember when Kim had that much hair. DB

**ira** · Sep-22-2005, 12:19pm

i'm not a bg guy, but music history caught in photo is what you've provided us. thanks so much.

**Stephanie Reiser** · Sep-22-2005, 12:32pm

Darryl, thanks so much. It must have been alot of work to do this, and we all appreciate it. Really enjoyable to look at these old photos.

**Roachcoach** · Sep-22-2005, 6:57pm

Hi Darryl, I saw some pics of Hughie Wylie, What ever happened to him? He kinda dropped off the map up here in Atlanta. I sure enjoyed pickin with him and listening to him. Was hard to recognize him without his long beard and John Deere hat.

**RichieK** · Sep-22-2005, 11:10pm

I remember Hughie well from around 1974 and up. JN amd Onie Baxter, Don and Ron Norman, Joel and Erleen Aderhold were all big influences on us youg kids!!!!!
I wish we could play together again someday.

**PCypert** · Sep-23-2005, 6:09am

Great pics. Must have been rough back in the day when the choices were a Fern, A Loar, or a Wood conversion.

You ran with some cool folks. Except for that guy on page five

Paul

**Darryl Wolfe** · Sep-23-2005, 8:24am

Hi Folks,

Thanks for all the nice comments and emails. I need to say that Dad did all the work getting these pictures digitized..not me. I'm just sharing them with you. I hope you have enjoyed. I'll post more after my slides from similar periods are done. My pictures start in bulk around 1971 with the majority of the interesting stuff being in the mid to late 70's

**fatt-dad** · Sep-23-2005, 8:39am

Originally Posted by (f5journl @ Sep. 23 2005, 09:24)

My pictures start in bulk around 1971 with the majority of the interesting stuff being in the mid to late 70's

I would love to see photos from one of the Culpeper/Warrenton bluegrass festivals, circa 1972, 73 or 74. That would be me sitting in awe - looking like a geek.

f-d

**mandopete** · Sep-23-2005, 10:50am

Darryl - be sure to thank your dad for us to. #Can't wait see the other photo's!

**Darryl Wolfe** · Sep-23-2005, 2:19pm

JD Crowe and the Kentucky Mt Boys..Reidsville NC #1969 or 69

Doyle is playing my Randy Wood F-12 conversion..Red Allen on guitar and Bobby on bass

**Peter Hackman** · Sep-24-2005, 9:21am

Originally Posted by (f5journl @ Sep. 20 2005, 11:39)

Roger Sprung..old time banjoist and dealer...hawking banjos and such to pay for his trip from New York area. Berryville 1967

I'm surprised you refer to him as an "old time banjoist"-

He's best known for his series of "progressive BG"
LP:s on Folkways, in the 60's.
with drums (full set as I recall)
and a wildly eclectic repertoire.

Songs like "The Little Drummer Boy" and "Hello, Dolly".
The first album had Doc Watson on guitar.
The second and third albums had Jon Sholle; I'm
pretty sure they were his first records, and I believe he was
15-16 at the time.

And, since this is a mandolin cafe: the mandolin player
was Jody Stecher.

**f5loar** · Sep-24-2005, 4:23pm

Actually Roger was a master at all styles of the banjo from classical to new grass. He was pretty effective on the old time clawhammer and drop thumb styles. I guess Darryl may have only gone by has van booth when he was doing his 15th break on "Old Cluck Hen" clawhammer style.
Roger continues to come to Galax every year bringing with him top notch pickers. I've had the pleasure of being in his "pick-up" band many times and can say he knows his stuff. I bought my 2nd Gibson mandolin from Roger in 1966.

**Yonkle** · Sep-24-2005, 10:11pm

Thank You Darryl! Very nice collection of history you shared, I'm sure your memories are even better, wish I had a few of them, thanks for these photos! JD

**Peter Hackman** · Sep-27-2005, 12:07pm

Originally Posted by (f5journl @ Sep. 23 2005, 15:19)

JD Crowe and the Kentucky Mt Boys..Reidsville NC 1969 or 69

Doyle is playing my Randy Wood F-12 conversion..Red Allen on guitar and Bobby on bass

When I watched this group at a Holiday Inn in
Lexington, in 1969, Red Allen had left the group.
I can't for the life of me remember who replaced him,
anyone know?

But I certainly remember Lawson's mandolin
(not this one)
because of its horrible action. He let me try it and
I could hardly
make the strings touch the frets.

My friend Peter Winblad, himself a banjo player,
drooled over Crowe's backup,
of course, hadn't heard any better. Crowe and Emerson
were the two best banjo players I heard that
summer.

**f5loar** · Sep-27-2005, 2:33pm

I thought when Red left, Lawson went to guitar and Larry Rice came in on mandolin. Lawson leaves and Tony Rice comes in on guitar. There could have been some temps in-between these guys. Poor Crowe went through as many band members as Jimmy Martin!

**Moose** · Sep-27-2005, 2:46pm

JD!!! - an illustrious graduate of The Jimmy Martin School of Bluegrass - AND..., a charter member of the "classic" Sunny Mountain Boys Band. RIP Jimmy Martin.

**swampstomper** · Sep-27-2005, 3:19pm

"Poor Crowe":... hmmm... ask Jimmy about that (actually many people did)... he always felt stabbed in the back when JD left him, so "what goes around comes around" I guess.

That lineup with Allen and Lawson was too hard-core to last in 1969! They needed the smoother Rice sound to become successful in the newgrass movement. Don't get me wrong -- I love the Rice bros. (and just bought Larry's latest CD) -- but Red Allen with Doyle on tenor was radioactive.

**Moose** · Sep-27-2005, 4:18pm

swampstomper: Good - and interesting - post! Incidently, IMHO, the Sunny Mountain Boys -: "Audy" Blaylock with David Nance(dobro), and Dwight D.,was a good band for Jimmy. Be interestin' to hear Jimmy's opinion of same. If(!?) he were still among us, I'm sure he would offer it .... The band that included Lois Johnson/Kirk Hansord(sp.) cut some of Jimmy's finest material - in particular, the gospel numbers. Lois Johnson did GREAT(!) harmony! - OK.., I'm goin' back to work... sorry to rattle on... Moose.

**Paul Kotapish** · Sep-28-2005, 2:33pm

Thanks, Darryl.

Those are wonderful photos, and they brought back many memories from my years attending bluegrass festivals in the early'70s in Berryville, Culpepper, Lake Wippoorwill, and so on. Looking back, it's amazing to remember that you could show up late on a Friday afternoon, find a good place to pitch a tent, and still get to sit right up front and watch a whole evening of now-legendary performances by the likes of Ralph Stanley, J.D. Crowe, Jimmy Martin, Earl Scruggs, Grandpa Jones, John Hartford with Norman Blake, and more . . . all on the same bill.