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With Summergrass, Pick’ In The Pines and several others postponed until 2021 and The Great 48 Hour Jam in Bakersfield canceled and postponed until 2022. The only festival that may still happen in the Southwest is Via Las Vegrass in October and Wickenburg in November. SWBA Super Jam / Fall Campout is still on for the 4th Hello Southwest Bluegrass Association weekend of October, but things need to change for this members and friends, I hope this to happen, Keep your fingers crossed. And if its not newsletter finds you safe and well. safe to gather we will postpone until it is, more info will I apologize for the delay of this newsletter be available in the next newsletter. as I was starting to put it together, I received an envelope in the mail from an anonymous member from Stay Safe and God Bless ~ Terry Brewer somewhere in San Bernardino county. PAUL HAAS MUSIC Enclosed was a copy of my last Presidents letter with circles on several misspelled words and a note saying paulhaasmusic.com how embarrassing this is for SWBA. Paul Haas writes songs influenced by And yes, sometimes there are misspelled words and at Country, Folk & Bluegrass music . His 3 am and spell check not working right and 20 pages, Debut album"Long Long Time" out now sometimes more, and only a few hours to get it to the on Teahouse Records. printer. And for whatever reason I guess there is no excuse. Country Singer-Songwriter Still this seem too push my button and I started to rethink 65-year-old Country/Folk/Bluegrass singer-songwriter all I do for SWBA and maybe I took on too much. It was very hard to get motivated to continue on this newsletter Paul Haas’ words and music pour out of the stereo and I didn’t enjoy working on it as much as past speakers like midnight waves crashing on the coastline newsletters. But I think it turned out ok. of his native California state. It’s also a metaphor of this brave man’s artistic journey. And like most If I am an embarrassment to our organization I will gladly pilgrimages, the making of his debut album LONG, step down and past on the newsletter and website to anyone who is interested. LONG TIME is ultimately a story of redemption and salvation. With a richness that only time, wisdom and The pandemic has made getting the newsletter to the pain can provide, Paul Haas’ new album provides a post office a real challenge and has caused delays for playlist for what it means to be human: joy, sadness, reasons out of our control. Special thanks go out to Paul Haas, Marc Nelissen, Missy Lyn Gibson, and Frank & love, loss, exuberance, confusion, and hope with a Patsy Abrahams for there time to make this happen over couple of beers and shots thrown in to wash it all down the past months. with. The Board of Directors election is now complete and will A bonafide true son of California (4th generation, still be approved by the board in August and officers will be living in his hometown of Covina, CA), Paul wrote songs selected and voted for at the upcoming board meeting. in his bedroom at night for 35 years and dreamed of being Special thank you to Tabitha Lievanos for her time an artist while being a single parent and working in the counting votes and receiving the ballots. trucking industry before making his first ever recording in the winter of 2019. With no write ins there will be a total of 8 Board members for the upcoming fiscal year. Looking forward to working Proudly and unabashedly carrying the musical DNA of with these fine folks and I truly appreciate their willingness his generation, you can clearly hear his influences: the to serve on the board. romance of country crooner , the Tony Pritchett is stepping down from the SWBA Board Americana grit of Waylon Jennings, the and plans to relocate to Kentucky soon. Recently Tony simplicity of , the bluegrass moan of Bill spent several days in the hospital with covid-19 but is now Monroe, the Western swing charm of Bob Wills, the home recovering. I would like to thank Tony for all he has emotional purity of Buddy Holly, and the Zen haiku done for the Southwest Bluegrass Association and the minimalism of the late, great J.J. Cale. bluegrass music community, hosting house concerts and A lot of songwriters claim these serving on the Board for several years. Thanks Tony influences, fair enough, but Paul Not much going on due to the pandemic and all the has something that sets his work shutdowns, festivals are postponing until 2021, and large apart: the complete inability to gatherings are not allowed, can’t even sing in church. be anything but himself, Some small jams happening, but most are saying with 7 incapable or unwilling to mimic, or less. Mary Jane Cupp is doing a monthly Slow Jam copy or follow. This is how iconic over Zoom. and timeless art is created. It is very sad to say we have lost more of our Bluegrass family. Mike Nadolson passed away on June 4th, 2020 at his home in Lake Elsinore, California Born in Newark, Ohio, Mike had a passion for music of all kinds, especially Bluegrass. He was an accomplished musician for over 40 years and loved playing the guitar. Always laughing and smiling, Mike was a friend to all, and if he was sitting in a jam you knew it was going to be a good one. Well known in the Bluegrass community, not only for his singing, in 1980 & 1981 he won the Four Corners Regional Flatpicking Championship in Wickenburg, Arizona. As founder and owner of Tricopolis Records, Mike set up a traveling music store at several festivals for many years, helping introduce thousands to the world of bluegrass. With several instruments, cases, gig bags, CD's, how-to books, strings, picks, and tuners. Mike made available, to the first-time festival goer to the advanced picker the necessary supplies to ensure a great festival experience. Mike performed with several Southern California bands, including Shadow Mountain with Ron Block and Dennis Caplinger, Damascus Road, a gospel group, Circuit Riders, and Silverado. For several years Mike was responsible for putting together the Temecula Bluegrass Festival, and his hard work and dedication provided a great weekend of music and jamming on the streets of Old Town Temecula and was attended by many each year. His contribution and dedication to the music, our association, and the bluegrass community as a performer, businessman, picker and friend to many in our bluegrass family. Our Throughs and Prayers go out to family and friends, RIP my Friend ~ Terry Brewer Mike recorded an album in 1997 with Dennis Caplinger, John Moore, David Dias, Kenny Blackwell, Walden Dahl, Dave Richardson, Dean Knight, and Bob Applebaum...Whew, what a crew! It's called Quicksand, and I have some copies of it left....It's one of my favorite albums...Mike's family got bombarded with medical bills, and I think that our community can help out a bit by buying a CD or two...Guaranteed no regrets! You can send $20.00 via Paypal to: [email protected] and she will send me an email, and I'll send you a copy...shipping is included. Be sure to note your shipping address.... Mark Shutts Sad news, Our friend, Tom Lister, passed away on Thursday, July 9th 2020. Tom was born in Bakersfield, CA and it was there that he began to enjoy live music and especially became fond of Bluegrass. He met Carol while in high school and soon took her to a Bluegrass festival. Tom loved the music and Carol loved the people, and that’s how their Bluegrass love story began and It didn’t take long until Tom and Carol were married. Together, they regularly participated in Bluegrass music, the festivals, jams and especially the Southwest Bluegrass Association; it became a big part of Tom and Carol’s marriage. Tom dedicated many years to SWBA as a board member and helping with the distribution of the SWBA newsletter. Tom was also the coordinator of shows and band competitions on the SWBA Stage at Huck Finn' Jubilee and the annual SWBA event SuperJam. He especially had a passion to support young people and introduce Bluegrass to new prospective members of SWBA. Tom will be greatly missed, and fondly remembered. Our Southwest Bluegrass Association family sends love and prayers to Carol and her family and much gratitude for sharing this wonderful man with all of us ~ Eric Nordbeck One Thing Mark Shutts Doesn’t Fabricate? The acts that have played Shutts’ venue include Special Consensus, Jeff Scroggins and Colorado, Dan Crary, Bill His Love of Music Evans, and Wally Barnick, NuBlu (4 times), Don Rigsby with David Thom and Gene Libbea, The Get Down boys, by Stephen Pitalo thebluegrassstandard.com Monroe Crossing, The Colonel and Brother Leon, Chris Shutts Fabricators has been heavily Cerna and the Bluegrass Republic, Kenny Stinson and involved in the marine industry in Long Perfect Tymin’, Sideline, Sheri Lee and Blue Heart, Burning Beach, California, and surrounding Heart Bluegrass Band, Tim May, and Lorraine Jordan and areas for 39 years. The conception and Carolina Road. fabrications of many interesting projects are created in their facility in Huntington Beach, and since 2015, that opportunity has been extended to the local bluegrass community for the creation of great live music. Shutts Fabricators founder Mark Shutts explained, “Often, a person will have a need for a part or structure that just can’t be purchased ‘off the shelf.’ That’s why we “We’ve had the Edgar Loudermilk Band featuring Jeff Autry exist, to provide our customers with the possibility of four times,” Shutts said. “I hope I’m not leaving anyone out! having parts custom-built to their specifications. We can One time, when Jeff Autry couldn’t make it to Edgar’s show, computer design, fabricate, polish, and install any number and Edgar said, ‘I’ll play guitar.’ I then asked who was of specialty items, including bow rails, radar masts and going to play bass and he said, “you are!” I did okay and arches, cockpit seats, drink holders, stairway handrails, didn’t have a set list, but we’ve picked together a bit in the anchor rollers, fuel and water tanks, engine mounting past. He was more confident than I was, by a long shot!” brackets, prop struts, and the list goes on and on.” Shutts mentioned that he appreciates the gratitude that Shutts enjoys working with most metals, including everyone expresses — the bands, the audiences, and stainless steel, mild steel, brass, aluminum, and titanium, everyone involved. and finds great satisfaction in creating a new piece, or repairing existing equipment on a yacht, building, factory, “We’ve had some killer jams before and after the shows,” motorcycle, or sand rail. Shutts found his love of bluegrass he recalled. “Can’t wait ’til the next ones!” Shutts also said could be something that creates a platform for local and that even in these uncertain times, he longs for live music national acts to perform. Early exposure to the genre fed to make a comeback. his affinity for the music since his teens. “It’s my hope that we ALL understand more about how “When I was about 16 or 17, back in ’68 or ’69, I was live music is important to us, and all the tours and local live given some 4-track tapes: The Best of Flatt and Scruggs, music come back with renewed enthusiasm on all sides!” a Doc Watson album, Merle Haggard and Poco, comprising a heady mix of great playing. My peers here in SoCal were all listening to Black Sabbath and the Doors. I kept telling them “Listen to these guys play the guitar.” I started playing guitar at 10, in about 1962 or so and could recognize the more skillful playing. I’ve been hooked ever since!” Shutts said that he’d been to enough live music venues to realize that a reasonable space for these shows was all that they needed, so they hosted some jams rather successfully at the Shutts Fabricators location in Huntington. “In 2015, David Thom contacted me and asked if we’d consider a ‘house concert’ format with him, Don Rigsby, and Gene Libbea, and I thought, Heck yeah!” said Shutts. And so began of the Shutts Fabricators stage, as did Shutts’ association with the bluegrass music scene. “We belong to SWBA and CBA, proudly, I was fortunate to attend shows at the Golden Bear, where I saw John Hartford, Doc and Merle, and a whole bunch of others, it drew me to it,” he said. “I didn’t realize, until about 2009, that there was a huge Bluegrass Community out there, and after our first super jam, it’s been hook, line, and sinker ever since. I can’t seem to get enough of it!” Something to be worried about, or If your concern is that a $20,000 Christmas party gig breaking up is hard to do might come in at any time, why not say nothing at all? By Chris Jones Opinion / Humor I’ve never understood why bands issue breakup or bluegrasstoday.com hiatus press releases, anyway. Just stop touring and recording, and wait for someone to notice. Then, if The following is an encore that big gig comes through (the one with the free presentation. I thought since just about appetizer pastry things), go ahead and take it. You every bluegrass band in the world is can always sub for the member no one is speaking on hiatus right now, I thought it might be a good time to, or not. to revisit the subject of going on hiatus vs. breaking up in this column from 2016. I think the Spice Girls started this “hiatus” business back in 2000, and what good did it do them? As Just a reminder that for only one more week, we’ll Dan Hicks (or am I thinking of Dan Hays?) put it, be accepting entries in the “name that column” “how can I miss you if you won’t go away?” contest. If you can think of an appropriate name for this column, just write it in the comments section Just embrace the dissolving of your band; the more below. dramatic you can make it, the better. If all the members are getting along and are just “pursuing There’s plenty to worry about in the world of new opportunities,” (this is so rarely the case, but it bluegrass, if you’re the worrying sort. Even those that could happen) pretend they can’t stand each other aren’t the worrying sort can get that way in an election anyway. Start some rumors. This is even a good year, so let’s go ahead and worry. opportunity to fake your own death, if you’re in debt We have the issue of voter participation in the IBMA or just don’t want to show up to your day job on awards, the aging audience for traditional bluegrass Monday. festivals, the price of rebuilding a diesel bus engine, Remember, this is all part of setting the stage for the the Russian hacking of the Earls of Leicester’s emails, best part of breaking up: the reunion tour! This is and so much more. And yet none of this worries me where you travel around making twice the money you much, I have to confess. You know what keeps me used to make when you were still together, tossing and turning at night (besides cheap taste in performing for your wistful and nostalgic fans. hotels)? The fact that bands don’t break up anymore. Can you really do this if you’re just on hiatus? Not It’s not that I long for bands to go away. Most really, because you never took the step of disuniting; bluegrass fans, myself included, fantasize about Flatt you just took a lot of time off. There’s not much drama & Scruggs still being alive, together, and making in that. People want to know that you haven’t played plans to go into the studio to record their 187th record together since that fateful day when you all hung it for Columbia. I wish that J.D. Crowe hadn’t retired, up, seemingly for good. Moreover, this is a reunion and that he, Tony Rice, , Jerry Douglas, tour that may never happen again, especially since and Bobby Slone were all still playing together. one of the band members is suing the others over the If a band has to break up, though, I want them to rights to the band name, and and another one has actually break up. If they’re no longer playing, touring, just recently—and only temporarily—come back from recording, or speaking to each other, I’d say it’s pretty the dead. much over. It would be one thing if bands on hiatus picked right Instead, bands have taken to going on “hiatus.” This back up after they left off a year later, but the statistics implies that, although the lead singer is embarking don’t favor this scenario, so really there’s no on a solo career, two of the other band members have advantage to it. Remember that whether you break gotten jobs with Doyle Lawson, one is managing a up publicly, or just say nothing about it, you can Waffle House, and the other has become a full time always use the same business cards, and you can pro golfer, this band is only taking some time off and still take that Christmas party gig. will probably return to touring in the near future. Chris Jones wears many hats in his bluegrass career. In This is no way to call it quits. I say, go ahead and addition to leading his own band, with whom he tours and own it. Take a page from great bluegrass acts acts records, Jones is an award-winning broadcaster and like Flatt & Scruggs, New Grass Revival, and Pink songwriter. Visit him online : www.chrisjonesgrass.com Floyd: breakups should happen with some hard feelings between at least two of the band members, the awkward fulfilling of record contracts and concert bookings, a few nasty rumors, and maybe a temporary spike in album sales. THE RETA KAY mind. We talked but the fog of uncertainty was setting Twenty-one again, in given that there was a specific deadline that needed and (your) “Still The One” to be met. Time passed as a suitable plan B didn’t materialize By Bert Luontela so I let my fingers do the walking again. Jamie The Coronavirus first appeared like answered the phone. I reminded him of our prior a white wisp moving over the ocean conversation. He sounded hopeful, “technically we far away. No worries, it’s over there, far off, way are… let me make a phone call, I’ll get back with you beyond the sunset far over the horizon. But as in ten minutes”. When the phone rang I recognized evening turned to night you could feel the dampness the number. It was a go, they would build a slightly ever so slowly moving onto the land while over the customized, open back, Americana with a moonlit waters a cloud bank of fog and uncertainty completion date eight days before the birthday girl’s silently moved shoreward. Long before daybreak the special day and I would pick it up in person at their on-shore breeze had lifted as the fog shrouded facility. everything leaving a ghostly halo around the Three days prior the completion date I called Jamie streetlights. The silent dampness muting the sounds to verify that we were still on track, he answered and save for the water droplets falling from the overhead said, “let me make a phone call”. Soon thereafter I lights ever so slowly. Its here, it’s among us now, the answered his call, “ it’s just about done, there checking Wuhan flue dubbed Covid-19 had arrived. the intonation today”. I asked, “so I can pick it up The virus like the fog changes things, the normal tomorrow” he responded “yes” and that I should give patterns, and the way we perceive things, the speed him a call before I get there so he can come down to at which we move. It takes away mobility, shuts us the shop. down as we hunker down in waiting, waiting for the The next morning I climbed into the truck cab with a sunshine, the sound of birds, traffic and the return of full thermos of heavy-duty tea at 3 AM. The drive along ever day life. I-40 was uneventful but I dreaded dropping down the As the virus moved on shore our lives abruptly Cajon Pass and picking up the 215 south as I’d be changed, emergency services mobilized, priorities caught in the middle of the morning commute. reset. Government over site took precedent over Dropping down the pass the traffic had picked up but individual what’s, needs and desire’s. Businesses was moving right along. I expected to see brake lights where shuttered, deemed nonessential, lives as I hit the bottom of the pass, at the interchange, but disrupted with economic chaos and uncertainty instead at seventy-five miles per hour I was passed following in close pursuit. by a U-Haul truck traveling somewhere north of eighty. But still life goes on, people are born, they have The traffic was New Years morning light as if those birthdays and other milestones that mark us as social not watching the Rose Parade on TV were nursing a creatures. We can’t just live under a rock as there has bad hangover, the morning after the night before. to be some semblance of marking time, the good Sweet, looks like everyone’s telecommuting or just things, the things we cherish, the people we hold dear staying home. I’ll be in Spring Valley ahead of schedule. and close to our heart. It had been many decades since I’d been to San The fog had now encapsulated the southwest, Diego and the population density was higher than I businesses were closed, restaurants closed for sit remembered, got rerouted twice before reaching the down meals, no social gatherings or public shop. entertainment. Meanwhile we had two family celebrations back to back, a twenty-one again birthday followed by a joyful recognition of solemn vows taken some forty years ago. The fog was a disrupter but it wasn’t going to steal what it had no right to claim. Someway, somehow, this year’s celebration needed to be different, needed to be defiant, needed to lift the human spirit, needed to be memorable in some positive, unique, way. The main entrance to the shop was open so I stepped inside and a gal walking down the corridor looked at I had spoken with Jamie at Deering Banjo only to be me and asks, “Can I help you”. I told her I was there told that the next day they would be shuttered given to see Jamie. She stuck her head into an office they were deemed to be “non essential”. Nonessential doorway and said, “There’s someone here to see my a**. They were very essential for what I had in you”. To my surprise out stepped a stunningly attractive tall young lady with her hair braided back looking at me in an inquisitive manner. Oops, wrong Jamie this must be the boss. I told her I was here to pick up a banjo. She told me that (the other) Jamie would be right out with the instrument apologetically asking me to please wait outside. This social distancing is a real drag as it’s hard on everyone, I thought to myself. Outside we looked over the instrument and I thanked Jamie for making it happen at a time when chaos, confusion and uncertainty appeared to be the order of the day. Now it was time to fuel up and take a more leisurely north/east route back home. I couldn’t wait to surprise the birthday girl. Time always seems to move slowly when you anticipate something special. There had been a few bumps along the road to make this happen but no worries it was now a done deal. I had told Reta that I would be staying in Kingman for a few nights given that we were remodeling some units up there. True enough but she didn’t know about the side trip to San Diego. Furthermore we had not talked banjo or ole timey picking for sometime. There would be no clues or fingerprints to spoil the surprise. I had managed to get the banjo into the house and hidden in the guest bedroom. While at the shop I’d taken a photo of the building emblazoned with the Deering logo. A print was made of the photo. On the backside I’d written some scant clues of where to, look for the birthday gift. The photo was placed in a plain manila envelope upon which was written “Happy Birthday”. This was placed on the breakfast nook table. After looking at the photo and reading the backside Reta made a beeline to the guest bedroom, call it women’s intuition, and came out carrying the oversize box still somewhat uncertain of it’s content. The surprise was complete and unexpected when she opened the box. For a while the fog had lifted, revealing the sunshine and a sense of normality. A special thanks to everyone at Deering Banjo for making it happen, much appreciated. Till next time, Bert

Join Terry Brewer as he brings The Bluegrass Cafe to the airwaves, Sundays 3 - 6 PM Pacific with a mix of Bluegrass and Bluegrass Gospel. Live from the Streets of Bakersfield California Only on www.TheBluegrassJamboree.com Dale Ann Bradley, Emmy Lou Harris, Ry Cooder, Deanie Richardson David Olney, Hank Williams Jr., Del McCoury Band, By Ann Smith , and (to name a What an interesting and inspiring few). Included in this impressive resume is a tour with story our guest Deanie Richardson the Chieftains, and Bob Seger. She has had has. Dean is fiddler for the IBMA television appearances on Letterman, Leno, Conan nominated all female bluegrass group Sister Sadie. and the Today Show. Some of her impressive She grew up in a very musical family about 30 miles achievements are performances at Kennedy Center, west of Nashville, in the small town of Kingston Carnegie Hall, London’s Royal Albert Hall. Let’s not Springs, . Both her grandfathers and father forget all the touring, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, played music. Her brother is a renowned clogger on Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Austria, staff at the Grand ole Opry. At nine, she picked up the Belgium and Switzerland. She radiates immense fiddle and made her first appearance at the Grand Ole energy on stage. You feel like you’re right there with Opry at the age of 13. her as she plays out her solos. According to the biography on her website, she says “her fiddle vibrates Deanie plays everything from upbeat, bluegrass tunes her entire body as she plays”. to tear-jerking country melodies. She studied for three (https://www.deanierichardson.com/) years at the Blair School of Music with Craig Duncan. She entered and won numerous fiddle contests before In 2016, along with Dale Bradley, Tina Adair & Gina playing bluegrass or bluegrass festivals. Her entire Brittt she formed Sister Sadie, a chart topping highly childhood consisted of music. energetic bluegrass group. What a high-powered group this band of ladies is, both on stage and in the In January 2019, Glide Magazine journalist Trevor recordings. Sister Sadie is one of the rare groups that Christian tells readers, as stated by Deanie “one of my actually radiates energy in their recordings. Their passions is old country music. I grew up around the recordings have been immensely successful. Grand Ole Opry and I was always going backstage there when I was a kid. That is a true passion of mine She has been a mentor to many young musicians, as and wanted a good country shuffle on there, so I got well as adults learning fiddle I’m not a big fan of festival Dale Ann Bradley to sing it. My brother is a clog dancer workshops, but I’ve sat in on her workshops and she on the Grand Ole Opry; he’s been doing that since he leads some of the best bluegrass workshops I’ve ever was 15 years old. I’ve always had this vision of attended. If you have an opportunity to hear her at a recording the song with his feet, just his rhythms festival and she’s doing a workshop, you have to go. tapping out. During my time at the Grand Ole Opry, She loves teaching and she’s good at it. She’s now I’m one of the staff members there, I’ve gotten to particularly passionate about kids. It’s given her the play a lot with and get really close to Mike Snider, opportunity to nurture the next generation of bluegrass who’s one of the members. I also grew up doing fiddle pickers. She has shared her liveliness and love for contests and I wanted even to go back that far. So music with many students over the years. there’s a couple of the tunes that I played when I was Talking about her recent solo album “Love Hard, Work doing that when I was a kid.” Hard, Play Hard”, and the history behind it, she shared She was nominated for the Academy that she did her first solo album at 12 or 13. She of Country Music Awards Top Fiddle wanted the most recent record to be a mix of genres, Player of the Year for 2010. She was reflecting her career playing multiple styles and greatly influenced by Stuart Duncan, genres. She wanted to include artists she’s played Nashville’s busiest studio fiddler for with. She named one song after her grand-daughter, years. Along with Duncan, Richardson who she is currently raising. Her clogging brother was captivated by Mark O’Connor, appears on her record. He was a big part of her Howdy Forrester, Kenny Baker and growing up. You’ll hear lots of bluegrass instrumentals, Tommy Jackson. Deanie also plays a rag, a country song even an Irish folk melody. mandolin and acoustic guitar. Breaking news at this She spends a lot of time with her grand-daughter, time is Deanie was nominated by IBMA (International teaching her in bits and pieces but realizes ““the little Music Association) as fiddle player of the year. That one may take another direction than grandma. She’s is no mean feat. She is up against Becky Buller, Jason very musical, has great rhythm. It’s a fun thing right Carter, Michael Cleveland and Stuart Duncan. These now.” are all incredible players When asked what she would you say to aspiring She has shared the stage and recording studio with fiddlers about learning, she commented “For me, being Vince Gill, her good friend , Bog Seger, a teacher, you have to learn something in parts slow, then speed up. Focus on intonation, tone, bowing. FOR SALE: slow down.. She likes to use fiddle tunes as exercise 2012 BOURGEOIS COUNTRY BOY GUITAR Classical violinist Ytzak Pearlman has a video explaining ADIRONDACK TOP, MAHOGANY BACK, HIDE GLUE about breaking down the song, get the playing to breathe” MINT CONDITION , CASE INCLUDED $3500.00 I wanted to know more about the Kids on Bluegrass CALL PHIL 619-743-1442 EMAIL [email protected] program, where it is and how long does it last? “It’s a part of the youth program during IBMA convention annually. She’s been a part of it at least 10 years, every year about March, we put this app on line telling about themselves, why they want to be part of the program. They chose anywhere between 25-30 kids to participate in the program. They learn how to be part of a team/band and get to perform. They work out solos, harmonies, etc.” It’s clear she has an enormous passion about kids & music. She has a “pay it forward” attitude. What’s the best advice you’ve ever gotten? She led off with a great story about the father of bluegrass, . She was about 17 or 18 when Monroe was playing in Henderson, Tennessee with Larry Cordell. Larry had called her to sit in one night. She didn’t grow up listening to Monroe, but mostly to progressive players. When it came time for a solo Bill looks over at her. She thought he was asking her to do a solo. Bill The Bluegrass Special Monroe had a legendary way of telling his players just with Wayne Rice how he felt about what they were or were not doing. Sundays 10 PM to Midnight “Little girl you can’t play ‘em all!.” What she got out of https://kson.radio.com/ that is “less is more” Since she lives on a small farm outside of Nashville, her newest obsession is with the 25 chickens she has and her garden. Before COVD19 hit, she was going to slow down. So now, she’s got two gardens. Are you seeing a trend here? This is one busy lady! Like many guitar players obsessed with the kind of guitar they play or buy, I asked her about her about the great sounding fiddle she plays and how she came across it. In 2007 she was going on the road with Vince Gill. She went into town to a violin shop and the owner told her about this fiddle he felt she should look at. She played it, loved it, and borrowed it to take on the road with Vince. When she returned home, she took all the Vince Gill money she earned and bought the Colin Mezin fiddle, circa 1880. As for a bow, she prefers using a German Pernambuco bow. This is a nice segue into a story about the tattoos on her arms. “I was going through a bad time in my life and I went to this tattoo guy with my fiddle and he traced the f-holes out and put it on her arms. Talk about devotion! Her current record label is Pinecrest. Deanie is available for private lessons, events, session work, recording tracks (from her home base, touring and in and out-of-town dates. Dear Earl: Where's the Melody? Trying to learn Earl’s style of banjo presented a number of significant challenges for this struggling banjo player. © 2020 By Wayne Erbsen As you can imagine, in the early sixites there were no nativeground.com books, videos or YouTube clips to help guide the way. Of 1960 was the year I heard my first course, I purchased a copy of Pete Seeger’s 1948 book, bluegrass music as a mere boy of 15. The How to Play the 5-String Banjo. I found Seeger’s book folk boom was in full bloom, and my older sister Bonnie totally charming, but useless in helping me solve the had just started taking banjo lessons in Southern problems that playing Scruggs-style banjo presented. California. Her teacher suggested we go purchase an The one thing that particularity bumfusticated me was album by Flatt & Scruggs. Of course, we had no clue who the fact that even in Earl’s magnificent playing, I simply they were, but we wasted no time getting to our local could not hear the melody amidst the bazillion notes record shop where we asked the clerk if they had albums flying past me like a swarm of yellowjackets. Following in by Flatt & Scruggs. my sister’s footsteps, I started taking a few banjo Quick as a jackrabbit, he held up their newest LP, “Foggy lessons. In one frustrated moment, I remember asking Mountain Jamboree,” so we asked him if we could get a my teacher, “Where's the melody?” He answered that I taste of it. As soon as he lowered the needle down on the should listen to the fiddler, who was certainly playing the first track of side 1, we heard what we later found out was melody of the song. In retrospect, I'm thinking that he “Flint Hill Special.” The racket that came out of the must not have listened to Vassar Clements or Scotty speakers in that shop was unlike anything we had ever Stoneman, two truly great fiddlers who held the melody heard. The banjo commanded center stage and sounded at arm's length with their wild improvised solos. As I think like the rapid fire of a machine gun blazing away. Bonnie back about it now, he should have suggested I listen to and I were completely enraptured, but other customers the vocalist, who was the most likely to sing the melody in the store seemed to duck for cover as the notes of the as it was intended to be. Of course, some great banjo came flying over their heads. Of course, we bluegrass singers, such as Dave Evans, took almost as many vocal liberties with the melody as did the wildest purchased the album on the spot and couldn’t wait to get fiddlers. it home so we could slap it on the turntable. I practically wore out that album on that first day we brought it home. With a little instruction, I managed to learn a few It wasn’t long before I had purchased my own Kay banjo, arrangements of several tunes including “Flop Eared as I tried to figure out what the heck Earl was doing. Mule.” I say “arrangements” because my teacher basically laid out the whole tune for me, note for note, Several months later we saw posters around town rolls and all. My job was to memorize the way he played advertising that Flatt & Scruggs would be appearing at the tune. But being the contrary fellow that I am, if I our favorite venue, the Ash Grove, over on Melrose wanted to improvise the way Earl did, I was completely Avenue in West Hollywood. There was an opening act of on my own. some fellow who was sitting down playing an electric guitar. Unfortunately, we didn’t pay him much attention One approach I took was to copy my few precious because we had ants in our pants waiting to see our new bluegrass albums onto a reel-to-reel tape. That way I idols, Flatt & Scruggs. I am truly embarrassed to admit, could slow the recording down to about half speed almost sixty years later, that the gentleman who was the without damaging the disk itself. With the help of my opening act that night was none other than the legendary trusty tape recorder, I attempted to learn several of the rolls and how they somehow fit into the melody. The thing guitarist and songwriter, Merle Travis. I know, I know. I that was so strange about using a tape recorder in this was stupid in the head, and I’m trying to get past that now. way is that each banjo note sounded like the ominous When the magic moment finally arrived, Flatt & Scruggs footstep of a giant slowly stomping through the forest. By and the took command of the stage hook or by crook, I eventually figured out how to and launched into their first number, featuring Earl’s incorporate my rolls into the melody of a song. It tweren’t blisteringly fast banjo playing. I was thunderstruck at that pretty, but at least I was on my way. Earl’s playing and, truth is, I’ve never fully recovered. I At that time, I was earning some pretty good side money was amazed at how Earl was spitting out what seemed teaching guitar, which I had begun playing the previous like billions of notes, but he showed very little expression year. At some point, I decided to also start teaching and maintained almost a poker face anytime he took a bluegrass banjo. In trying to teach my students Earl’s break, which wasn’t often enough for me. style of banjo pickin’, I wrote out arrangements of tunes I Besides Earl, one of the things that completely dazzled had only recently learned to play myself. Somewhere me was the way that all the musicians took breaks. It along the line, I grew weary of writing out so many notes seemed that everyone had free rein when it came time in an age when copy machines were rare as hen’s teeth. to play a solo. I soon realized that bluegrass is built on Bit by bit, I finally figured out a better way to learn and improvisation. Seldom does a bluegrass instrument play teach bluegrass banjo. Instead of starting the beginning a break the same way twice. Or as we used to tease our student with rolls and then teaching them a set old fiddling friend Ralph Blizzard, “he never played a tune arrangement using those rolls, I first teach the melody the same way once.” and show how to add rolls to the melody. I begin by showing the basic G scale. With the scale firmly in hand, As you can readily see, the arrangement using the I show my students how to find the melody on the first five Thumb-Pinch is so much easier than the more complicated frets of the banjo using the G scale. I ask them to figure arrangement using more difficult rolls. out on the melody of common songs like “When the After the student gets a handle on using the Thumb-Pinch Saints Go Marching In,” “Do Lord,” “She’ll Be Comin’ to play the melody I gradually add additional rolls to their ‘Round the Mountain When She Comes,” and other toolbox of rolls that they can substitute for the thumb-pinch. campfire favorites. With a little prodding, most of my Ultimately, they will learn to incorporate and mix up any of students are able to find the melody of these and other the 10 banjo rolls that I commonly teach. songs. Pretty soon, while my students may not sound quite like When the student can play a simple melody, then, and Earl (neither do I), most of them sound pretty danged good. only then, do I show them how to play that melody with They are generally proud of the fact that they can take the simple roll I call the “thumb-pinch.” That means that practically any melody and add rolls to that melody without the student plays a melody note with their thumb quickly hardly breaking a sweat. followed by a pinch (1st and 5th strings played together If you're curious about my melody-driven approach to at the same time.) The timing sounds like “thumb-pinch, learning bluegrass banjo, take a peek at my books, thumb pinch.” When the student plays the melody and Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus or Bluegrass adds the thumb-pinch where appropriate, they often have Jamming on Banjo. I’m currently hard at work on a an “ah ha” moment. Finally, they can play the melody and companion volume to the Banjo Ignoramus book with the the rolls (in this case the thumb-pinch) all at the same working title of Workbook for Bluegrass Banjo for the time. Complete Ignoramus. Let me know if you’d like me to Here is an example of the basic melody of that contact you via email when it becomes available. All my old gospel favorite, “I’ll Fly Away.” books are available at www.nativeground.com or your favorite brick and mortar retailer. Of course, you can also find this book at a variety of online retailers. Wayne Erbsen is a musician, author, publisher, teacher and radio host. Check out his instruction books and songbooks for bluegrass and clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin and ukulele plus books of songs and lore of cowboys, Civil War, railroads, outlaws and gospel, plus historic cookbooks by visiting www.nativeground.com This is the way I would teach a student to play “I’ll Fly Away” using the Thumb-Pinch

And this is a way an advanced banjo player might approach “I’ll Fly Away.” FOR YOUR BILL The Stanley Brothers MONROE FOR BREAKFAST By Gary Reid TBT - July 23, 1964: The Stanley By Tom Isenhour Brothers performed on the main stage 1971 was a big year for bluegrass music, Bill in Freebody Park for the opening night Monroe was now known as the undisputed Father of the Newport Folk Festival. It was the group’s of Bluegrass and lot's of great festivals. One that second time to perform there, having played at the stuck out above the rest was Carlton Haney's Camp first Newport festival in 1959. For this outing, the Springs, North Carolina, year No. 3. band performed for all four days of the festival, For those of us that were there, you never forgot Thursday (July 23) thru Sunday (July 26). Reporter it. But for those that couldn't be there, there was the Jane Nippert covered the opening evening event movie "Bluegrass Country Soul". for the Newport Daily News. She noted that the The 3 day festival was captured in living color for attendees – slightly over 4,000 – were “chilled and the big screen. After a few months at the box office damp” throughout the evening. She added that “the it bombed and drifted into bluegrass history. Stanley Brothers from Virginia, a Bluegrass group, went over big with the audience with their song ‘The There were two poor quality releases later on that White Dove’ and the lively tune, ‘Hard Times,’ didn't seem to strive in a VHS market. drawing the largest applause that far in the evening.” But now there is a brand new box set in Blue Ray DVD with as good a digital quality as you would With twenty-nine different performers/groups, each want. act was afforded a limited amount of time to perform. It appears that the Stanley Brothers set It has extras in the box set like interviews with consisted of the two selections mentioned in the some artists and a double CD of direct from stage article, along with an un-named third piece. tapes of 7 bands. Documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner filmed But the jewel in the new set is the 168 page big various performers throughout the weekend, book about the festival. That to me is worth the price including the Stanley Brothers. He noted of "The alone. White Dove" that “most of the picture is there for Now why am I mentioning the set here when Bill this song, [and] there are two other songs in this Monroe was not there? performance but with only audio and no picture.” Bill Monroe was not there by choice. It was the The film remains in the Lerner archives and has yet beginning of Traditional Old Grass with what would to see the light of day. become New Grass. Sam Bush said it best "This Long-time band member George Shuffler appeared was the weekend it all changed". on lead guitar and Harold “Red” Stanley (no relation In fact, except for one small photograph of Monroe to Carter and ) made one of his first from the early 50's, there is no mention of Monroe – if not THE first – dates with the Stanley Brothers. in the movie. But his former Blue Grass Boys were For at least one of Stanley Brothers performances there (14 of them, I counted) that helped make this during the weekend, Benny Birchfield – on loan a legendary festival. from the – filled in on bass. The music of Bill Monroe was there! It can now be Despite a rocky start with the weather on Thursday seen in all it's 1971 glory for new generations of evening, it was estimated that 70,000 people bluegrass music to understand the importance of attended the festival throughout the weekend. It is the 1st generation artists and the beginning of very doubtful that every attendee saw the Stanley relevance of the 2nd generation artists. Brothers perform, but it is very likely that Newport Viewing the movie and reading the book tells you 1964 represented the largest audience that Carter all you need to know about Camp Springs 1971 and and Ralph ever performed for. Unfortunately, Carter it's importance in bluegrass music history. Stanley had a case of laryngitis throughout the weekend. Not for sale on Amazon yet (they still have the poor quality 2006 DVD for $30). It can be ordered on The Stanley Brothers performances at Newport Bluegrass Country Souls website at appeared on a 1994 CD called “Clinch Mountain www.bluegrasscountrysoul.com Bluegrass” (Vanguard 77018).

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Please Indicate c $25.00 1 year single, married, family c $50.00 2 year single, married, family c New c $30.00 1 year band or business c $60.00 2 year band or business c Renewal c 1st class postage Add $10.00 for 1 year c 1st class postage Add $20.00 for 2 years c Change Mail to: SWBA Membership PO Box 55 Mira Loma CA 91752 Please enclose a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope to receive card. Make checks payable to Southwest Bluegrass Association Office Use: Date Issued______[ ] Cash [ ] Check #______Amt $______Southwest Bluegrass Association Bluegrass Southwest Note: There will be a $25.00 charge for any returned check.