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- Whaddaya Know? We’ve Been Pre-empted!
- In Virginia for Thanksgiving
- Lincoln and ‘Acoustic Pals’ Live in 1992!
- The Poodles, Live in 1986!
- Back on Track with The Lynn Morris Band on October 31st, 1992
- Hear New IBMA Hall of Famer Lynn Morris on Hallowe’en 1992
- Now for Something Different—The Tarbox Ramblers!
- Let’s Stay in 1990. . .
- Summertime Guests Peter Keane, Barry & Holly Tashian, in 1990
- A Double Treat of Live Music, with Dave Foley and Mike Ireland in 1999
- Back to 1986, with Bay State Bluegrass
- Jenny Brook Lives!
- No Joe Val Festival This February
- When the World Stopped Turning
- The Freight Hoppers, Live in 1998!
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- "Beautiful Star of Bethlehem"
- "Beautiful Star of Bethlehem": The Composer's Grandson Writes
- Whaddaya Know? We've Been Pre-empted!
- Photos from the Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival
- No Joe Val Festival This February
- "O Beautiful Star of Bethlehem" (Now Available!)
- The 2018 Joe Val Festival
- Willie, John T, and Me
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Tag Archives: Jim Rooney
What Do 1961, 1971, 2011, 2021 Have in Common? Hillbilly History!
ANOTHER ARCHIVAL HILLBILLY AT HARVARD 1961: The Lilly Brothers, Everett and B, with Don Stover, play a concert in Lowell House at Harvard College. Everett, who usually plays mandolin, picks up the fiddle and wows the audience with a fiery … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Archival Productions, Hillbilly History, Hillbilly Journal, Program Notes, Radio Talk
Tagged Bill Keith, Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival, Boston Bluegrass Union, Celebrity Series of Boston, Claire Lynch, Cousin Mike Eisenstadt, David Elliott, Don Stover, Hillbilly at Harvard, Jim Rooney, Kim Harris, Old Sinc, The Del McCoury Band, The Lilly Brothers, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band
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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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Joe Val Festival News: Del McCoury Coming, Lillys Honored
Already scheduled for Sunday afternoon (February 14th) at the annual Joe Val Festival, The Traveling McCourys will become The Del McCoury Band! Del of course was ‘snowed out’ last year (remember the snowstorm here that snowed in a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Bluegrass, Country Calendar, Country News, Radio Talk
Tagged Ashley Lilly and the Songcatchers, Boston Bluegrass Union, Everett Allen Lilly, Hillbilly at Harvard, Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys, Jim Rooney, Joe Val Festival, Junior Sisk and Ramblers' Choice, Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper, Tex Logan, The Del McCoury Band, The Gibson Brothers, The Lilly Brothers, The Spinney Brothers, The Traveling McCourys, Woiody Guthrie
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Bill Keith, 1939–2015
Got home Saturday evening (we were out minding four grandkids) to sit down at the iMac and see this sad news from Jim Rooney: Dear Friends, My long-time dear friend and musical partner Bill Keith left us on Thursday, Oct. … Continue reading
Posted in Bluegrass, Country News, Hillbilly Journal, Radio Talk
Tagged Bill Keith, Bill Monroe, Hillbilly at Harvard, IBMA, Jim Rooney, Rich Stillman
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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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Blizzard? “As long as all the bands are here, we’re fine!”
Here we go again (from the National Weather Service): WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING… THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY … Continue reading
Posted in Bluegrass, Country Calendar, Hillbilly Journal, Program Notes
Tagged BBU, jim Gaudet, Jim Rooney, Joe Val Festival, Rhonda Vincent, Sheila Selby, Tom Paxton
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Check Out The Harvard Gazette Slideshow on HAH!
Back in July, Harvard Gazette (and Boston Globe) photographer Jon Chase arrived at Studio BC at WHRB on Saturday morning, and snapped a bunch of photos. Larry Flint turned up, as well as Buck Mitchell, and erstwhile Nashville (now back … Continue reading
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