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Tag Archives: Everett Lilly
The Legendary Al Hawkes Dies at 88
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
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Another Great Joe Val Festival!—Part I
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
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Tex Logan (1927–2015) — Part I
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
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The Montreal Express
[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
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Hillbilly at Harvard 