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I believe Barry is living around Nashville and mostly freelancing with among others, Harley Allen, David Harvey, Dale Ann Bradley, David Peterson, etc. Jesse Baker is playing banjo with Mike...

Bluegrass banjo guy here.......

Nothing earthshaking, except everytime I have been around him he has been exceedingly nice and very laid back....and one more thing......he is a *really funny* guy....

Now Jimmy Arnold.....I've...

Holy cow...All of them would work for me too.........but...

Right now I'm liking Roanoke a lot, but sometimes that changes a little...got to like that Hicks fellow on the little fiddle!
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A Gibson Flathead #3 banjo for $3500 in 1985. I recently found out where it went, and it's an exceptionally good banjo.

A 1936 D-18, just a few years ago. Had a few little issues, but holy cow,...

Count me in as a huge Redhead as well.

I believe the two records he made on County: one with Grisman, and the other with Wayne Yates playing mandolin, along with some singles were released on 2...

Coon Dog Day is (I think) in July, usually around the 4th. #The Purple Onion is still there, and a great place. #Hendersonville is not far....maybe 20-25 miles and easy to get to. #There is a jam on...

I'll be there from Tuesday on, but I have to admit, there is *nothing* about me that is organized...:)

Mine was a 45 RPM record of Jimmy Martin singing 20-20 Vision B/W Sunny Side Of The Mountain.....I listened to that record until the grooves got real shiny and kind of white, then the needle on the...

Crowe played on the original cut of Big Country in November 1966, and Big E wrote and played on the Jimmy Martin cut of Theme Time, probably sometime in 1965. #

Emerson cut Theme Time before the...

Vernon Derrick played the original cut of Big Country in 1966, on Decca Records. This is the cut on Big and Country Instrumentals. He used the F-12 Mandolin. On the Gusto cut I believe Robbie Brake...

Bobby broke his ring finger on his left hand

It's probably Patrick McAvinue from around Baltimore, Md. He's a great player and an even greater guy. The same can be said for Mike: He's a master musician and a super guy as well, that I'm very...

Donny Eldreth is still living in PA, however I believe he has had some health issues recently. #His son Donny Eldreth Jr. is a great mandolin player currently playing with Danny Paisley and the...

We have a winner!! The man from Green Creek wins a perfectly restored 1974 AMC Hornet Station Wagon...Tan in color...with no hub caps so it looks like a race car.......

I believe the first...

OK....Here's today's JMB trivia: who was the first banjo player with the JMB?

I saw the JMB the first show that David came back playing mandolin. #As Red said, it was a Gibson A model, snakehead I believe. #

I rememeber that Dudley said "He's been off at college and I think...

I'll be there doing double duty playing banjo with Travers Chandler and Avery County and with Ken Scoggins and Miller's Creek. Come by and say hello.

Jim

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A friend of mine wants to learn how to play the mandolin. I think that she has the desire, but at almost 50 years of age has never touched *any* musicial instrumet. So she needs to learn...

For anybody near Greenville, SC the Del McCoury Band will be playing at The Handlebar this Thursday, Jan 31st. C'mon out if you can!! I imagine Del and all the rest of the boys will be really pouring...

Yes, I played banjo for Jimmy Martin for two short stints. We were good friends for about 20 years and he taught me a lot about music. I'm not saying he was a saint nor am I defending him, but at...

Audie played mandolin approximately nine years with Jimmy, from 1982 to 1991. #Paul Williams played on the original cut of Train 45 along with Paul Craft playing banjo. #Paul Craft went on to be a...

I heard yesterday that multi-instrumentalist Vernon Derrick passed away Friday morning, in Alabama. He was 74 years old. He played most notably with Flatt and Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers, Jimmy...

I always liked Big Mon's kick off and break on "Letter From My Darling"....About a Tractor-Trailor load of angst.....

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