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- 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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- Rick Robinson, Leader of The Bayou Boys, Dies at 62
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Tag Archives: The Lilly Brothers
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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Program Notes for December
UPDATE 4B! (23Dec16): No, not another schedule change. Had a pleasant half hour or so chatting with David Greely last Saturday (though I had to run out in the snow in my sandals to bring him to the correct door), … Continue reading
Posted in Country Calendar, Hillbilly Journal, Program Notes, Radio Talk
Tagged Bluegrass Unlimited, David Greely, Hillbilly at Harvard, Hillbilly at Harvard Christmas Extravaganza, Hillbilly Ranch, Ruth Rappaport, The Burren, The Christmas Revels, The Lilly Brothers, The Poodles, Victor Evkokimoff
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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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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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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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Hillbilly at Harvard 