The tag line (like a subtitle) for this Notes of Blue blog is supposed to be “Rambling on Bluegrass and Other Stuff Blue.” You may not have seen it because I haven’t built out the website yet (working on it). I thought I would explain what that tag means, what I mean by “…Other Stuff […]
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On the Bus with Bill Monroe: My Five-Year Ride with the Father of Bluegrass The first thing I’ll say about Mark Hembree’s 200-page memoir of his time as a Bluegrass Boy is this…I wish it had been 400. Is it flawless? No, but it comes closer than any book on Bill Monroe/Bluegrass that I have […]
How ‘bout them C-A-T-S, Cats, Cats, Cats?! It’s been a long, long while since UK basketball fans have had this much to be excited about. Six years ago was our last Sweet Sixteen. Actually, last year when a bunch of my family and I attended Mark Pope’s “press conference” in Rupp Arena, it was pretty […]
A question last night from a good friend reminded me I need to read Mark Hembree’s 2022 book On the Bus: My Five-Year Ride with the Father of Blue Grass. Hembree played bass for Bill Monroe from 1979 to 1984. He was also a founding member of The Nashville Bluegrass Band. Since I haven’t read […]
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Twenty-two years ago in this month of March I started my newspaper column “The Bluegrass Connection” in The Ohio County Messenger. I wrote that column through the rest of 2003 and barely into 2004 before life took me in another direction. In the long years since then, I’ve often wished I could start up writing […]
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