Jerry Douglas took the stage and stood proudly while being inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame during the 35th annual International Bluegrass Music Association awards show Thursday night in Raleigh. “You don’t get here alone,” the 68-year-old Dobro legend told the audience at the Martin Marietta Center for …
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Backstage at the Earl Scruggs Music Festival in North Carolina, Marty Stuart has just finished a whirlwind set on the Flint Hill Stage. A blitzkrieg of country, bluegrass, and rock, Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives are a living bridge between the tones and textures of the past and the evolution …
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When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d hear the Flatt & Scruggs [Grand Ole Opry] radio show on WSM if there was clear weather between …
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