Tag Archives: Everett Lilly

The Legendary Al Hawkes Dies at 88

Posted on January 10, 2019 by cousinlynn953

I met Al Hawkes at one of the Joe Val Festivals, back in the Green Room. It was not the one where he received the 2009 Heritage Industry Award from the Boston Bluegrass Union. It might have been 2016 when … Continue reading →

Posted in Bluegrass, Country History, Country News, Record Business | Tagged Al Hawkes, Allerton and Alton, Alton Myers, B Lilly, Bear Family Records, Betty Cody, Boston Bluegrass Union, Don Stover, Don Williams, Event Records, Everett Alan Lilly, Everett Lilly, Hal Lonepine, Jim Rooney, Joe Val Festival, Lenny Breau, Maine Public Radio, Rockhouse Mountain Productions, The Cumberland Ridge Runners, The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover | 1 Comment

Another Great Joe Val Festival!—Part I

Posted on March 15, 2016 by cousinlynn953

Once again the Boston Bluegrass Union pulled off another flawlessly-executed (at least as far as we spectators could tell, and that’s what counts!) Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, Presidents’ Day weekend at the Sheraton in Framingham. At least this year there … Continue reading →

Posted in Bluegrass, Follow-ups, Hillbilly Journal | Tagged Boston Bluegrass Union, Bryan Turner, Everett Lilly, Gary Robinson Jr., Jamie Harper, Jason Davis, Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, Johnathan Dillon, Junior Sisk and Ramblers' Choice, Kameron Keller, Matthew Cruby, Mountain Fever Records, Steve Gulley, Steve Gulley and New Pinnacle, The Lilly Brothers | 1 Comment

Tex Logan (1927–2015) — Part II

Posted on June 2, 2015 by cousinlynn953

Part I is HERE. It was Tex Logan‘s association with Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper that led him to Bill Monroe in 1951, and the recording of his song, now a bluegrass and country standard, “Christmas Time’s A-Comin’.” Richard Thompson, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bluegrass, Country News, Hillbilly History, Neat Pics | Tagged "Christmas Time's A-comin'", Bell Labs, Bill Keith, Bill Monroe, Bluegrass Today, Boston Area Friends of Bluegrass and Old-Time Country Music, Buck Graves, Carlton Haney, Carter Stanley, Cowboy Copas, Daniel E. Slotnik, Dick Curley, Don Lineburger, Edd Mayfield, Everett Lilly, Everett LIlly Jr., Flatt & Scruggs, Frank Lane, Fred Bartenstein, Fred Robbins, Gene Lowinger, Gordon Terry, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Hayloft Jamboree, James Bowers, James Monroe, Jim Rooney, Jody Logan, Joe Val, Julian 'Winnie' Winston, Mike Seeger, Nancy Talbott, Owen Bradley, Paul Rothchild, Pete Cassell, Pete Lane, Peter Rowan, Richard Greene, Richard Thompson, Shorty Sheenan, Tex Logan, The Charles River Valley Boys, The Confederate Mountaineers, The Lane Brothers, The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover, The New Lost City Ramblers, Wayne Raney, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper | 13 Comments

Tex Logan (1927–2015) — Part I

Posted on May 22, 2015 by cousinlynn953

Listeners to Hillbilly at Harvard over the years will have heard the name Tex Logan from time to time, not only when we played the familiar fiddle tunes “Katy Hill” and “Natchez Under the Hill” from the—what was a word … Continue reading →

Posted in Bluegrass, Hillbilly History | Tagged Big Slim the Lone Cowboy, Bluegrass Today, Curley Seckler, Dick Best, Don Stover, Everett Lilly, Frank and Pete Lane, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Hoyle Nix, Jerry and Sky, Jim Rooney, Joe Val, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Mike Seeger, Mitchell B. Lilly, Red Belcher and the Kentucky Ridge Runners, Richard Thompson, Tex Logan, The Coal River Valley Boys, The Confederate Mountaineers, The Hayloft Jamboree, The Hillbilly Ranch, The Lane Brothers, The Lilly Brothers, WCOP, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper and the Clinch Mountain Clan, WMEX | 13 Comments

The Montreal Express

Posted on January 14, 2014 by cousinlynn953

[UPDATE 15FEB15: Played “The Montreal Express” yesterday (particularly appropriate, as the temperature on the river in Saxonville was -3.5º F when I got up) and got a call after the show from Herbie Hooven, now in his 80s. He says … Continue reading →

Posted in Hillbilly History, Radio Talk | Tagged Al Sears, Boston Gas, Courtney Crandall, Dave Stewart, Dick Curless, Everett Lilly, Gordy Brown, Herb Hooven | 7 Comments

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