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20 Bluegrass Favorites
20 Bluegrass Favorites
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Although he held down long residencies in Baltimore and Cincinnati, Earl Moses Taylor was from the heart of bluegr country in southwestern Virginia, near Kentucky and Tennessee state lines.
Hard-driving and exciting are words which can describe the music of Earl Taylor and his Stoney Mountain Boys. It can also be described as crowd-pleasing because of the tremendous acceptance of the Stoney Mountain Boys through the years, which happened to begin in 1947 and ended in 1983 when Earl Taylor ped away.
The Stoney Mountain Boys band was well known by aficionados of bluegr in the eastern United States during the late 50 s. So well, in fact, the band was included on the very first bluegr LP in 1958 and was the very first bluegr band to play Carnegie Hall in 1959.
But this notoriety was not easy to achieve for Earl Taylor, Jim McCall, Vernon McIntyre Jr., Boatwhistle McIntyre, Walter Hensley, Sam Hutchins, Charlie Waller and others who were with the band through the years. Vernon Junior, who played banjo with the group for many years after Hensley left, remembered playing in rowdy bars behind chicken wire to protect them from thrown bottles which served as missiles hurled during the frequent bar fights.
Oh my, Earl Taylor & The Stoney Mountain Boys was a great band. , said Del McCoury. Earl didn t want to travel and he didn t do his own material, but when it came to hard-driving rhythm and high lonesome singing, he was right up there with Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs.
Another Virginian, Jim McCall Sam Hutchins just days after Earl from the Carnegie Hall performance. Soon after Earl Taylor, Jim McCall and the rest of the band relocated to the Cincinnati area were they performed for many years in the area.
Product details
Release Date:
1997-12-11
Publication Date:
1997-12-11
Publisher:
Rural Rhythm
Languages:
Original:
English
Weight:
36 g
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