tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84022717562366102522024-02-20T16:06:43.368-05:00Doug HutchensDoug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-14462586259886137072020-09-09T12:39:00.006-04:002020-09-09T16:30:57.458-04:00Going to "Town" with Bill and the decison<div align="center">
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<div align="center"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnJ3LqBM1FUOwdNh3NpuZ_gBivdl2sKe-0vrofNR56-NPCSTK9JXYaIUZQrw80g6bkoKpxWfyWH3G8wuiU6ig2dFgJrbZgyP-kKnjESxrs7rapLGFovHqBME58Z5wWCFzVGS6h4R0Ppl4/s1652/30741571_10156396842493734_5337173077815984128_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1058" data-original-width="1652" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnJ3LqBM1FUOwdNh3NpuZ_gBivdl2sKe-0vrofNR56-NPCSTK9JXYaIUZQrw80g6bkoKpxWfyWH3G8wuiU6ig2dFgJrbZgyP-kKnjESxrs7rapLGFovHqBME58Z5wWCFzVGS6h4R0Ppl4/s320/30741571_10156396842493734_5337173077815984128_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> On Tuesday July 27th Bill came by the bus and wanted to know if I wanted to ride into town. I said sure. . I 65 was open up to the present day location of Briley Parkway but Bill preferred to take the “old road” to town, it brought us out on the James Robertson Parkway and across the bridge into downtown Nashville.
He was driving the old blue station wagon and as we started up the hill just past where we parked the bus and <span style="color: #333399; font-size: 78%;">(</span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: x-small;">I did some searching and it was at about 5000 US Highway 41 by a recent google search</span><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 78%;">)</span> Bill said that where I used to live, in that house. It was a house that was covered with stone and on up the hill a short distance was a small trailer park. He said that’s where Lester and Earl lived when they first moved to town.
As we rode along I had been thinking a lot. I said “Chief you know I’ve been thinking about laying out of school for a year and playing music”. He didn’t say anything for a time and after what seemed an eternity which probably was only 2 or 3 minutes he said “you know I don’t that’s a good idea”. I asked “What” he continued “if I hadn’t done pretty good in music the only thing I could have ever done was farmed. Now your folks think a lot of you and really want you to finish school”.
Again it got very quiet, as I began some serious thinking. Bill then continued “Now you go back and finish school and if you ever want a job and I have an opening, the job is yours.” It wasn't mentioned again that summer.
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We went on into Nashville and he parked behind the Opry off Fourth Avenue and walked down by GTR and toward Broadway. I stopped at GTR and Bill said to meet him at about 2:00 at Linebaugh’s.
I went in and John Hartford and Roy Acuff were both fiddling in the back. I admired a Florentine and All American banjo resonator in the show case and looked at a large bag of amber buttons for banjo tuners that George had purchased somewhere. He was good in those days of coming up with various parts from companies that had gone out of business years before. I spoke to Randy Wood who I had met a short time before but had known of through his association with Rual Yarbough before he came to work with George and Tut.
Randy invited me into the back, the place was small and I tried to find a spot out of the way and just became the proverbial fly on the wall. It seemed like only a short time I looked at my watch and it was about time to meet Bill at Linebaugh’s Restaurant. So I tried to leave as uneventful as I entered.
I went on down to Linebaugh’s and in a few minutes Bill entered. Being the early part of the week and after the regular lunch crowd had left, the restaurant was almost empty. Bill came in and immediately went over to the juke box to see what was on it. I don’t ever remember him playing anything but where ever we stopped that had a juke box he would go over and see what was on it. I never asked, but I always kind of figured he looked to see if any of his music was on it, In Linebaughs there was always some of Bill's single's on it. I remember Charlie Pride’s “Kiss An Angel Good Morning” was playing and he commented that it was a good number for Charlie.
While we were eating George Linebaugh came out and Bill ask him to sit down with us. He said he couldn’t as he had a lot to do in the back. They talked a few minutes and when he left Bill said that Linebaugh had come to Nashville about the same time that he had and was a “Good Hardworking Honest Man”. </div>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-29883686483164167382018-06-13T16:54:00.001-04:002020-02-13T19:54:14.106-05:00(Work in Process) Ongoing Price list of Gibson Banjos and 60's Vega <div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: small;">1926</span> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">(</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Blue Cover) no prices listed</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 5</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Granada</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 4</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 3</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 2</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 1</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 0</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: small;">1927 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">(Yellow Cover) no prices listed</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Florentine</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Bella Voce</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 5</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 4</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 3</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 2</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 1</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: small;">June 1, 1931</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">All American 550.00 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">available in White Holly or American Burl Walnut</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Florentine 450.00 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">available in White Holly or American Burl Walnut</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 6 300.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Granada 200.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 4 150.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">RB 3 115.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 2 75.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">RB 1 60.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Faultless 521 case 13.50 (Flannel Lining)</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Faultless 522 case 22.00 ( Silk Plush Lining)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">1932 </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">(Catalog U)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">All American 550.00 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">available in White Holly or American Burl Walnut</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Florentine 450.00 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">available in White Holly or American Burl Walnut</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 6 300.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Granada 200.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 4 150.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">RB 3 115.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 2 75.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">RB 1 60.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 11 60.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Faultless 521 case 13.50</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Faultless 522 case 22.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: small;">1934 </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: small;">(Catalog W)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">All American 550.00 </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Florentine 450.00 </span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 6 300.00</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Granada 200.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 4 150.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">RB 3 115.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 2 75.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">RB 1 60.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 11 60.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Faultless 521 case 13.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Faultless 522 case 22.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">1937 </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">(Catalog X)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">All American 550.00 </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Florentine 450.00 </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 6 300.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Granada 200.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 4 150.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">RB 3 100.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Style 11 50.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">RB 1 37.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">RB 00 27.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Faultless 521 case 13.50</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Faultless 522 case 22.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Challenge 121 case 5.00 (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">side opening</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">1937 </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">(Catalog Y)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 18 200.00 with Gibson mute 225.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 12 150.00 with Gibson mute 175.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 7 110.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 75 75.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 11 55.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 1 40.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 00 30.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Faultless 521 case 14.50</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Faultless 522 case 24.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Challenge 121 case 5.50 (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">side opening</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">1938</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 18 200.00 with Gibson mute 225.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 12 150.00 with Gibson mute 175.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 7 110.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 75 75.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 11 55.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 1 40.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 00 30.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">1940</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">TB 00 30.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">new style 7 110.00 with wrist mute 125.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 75 75.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 11 55.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">GB 1 60.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Hard case silk lining (522) 24.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Hard case felt lining (521) 14.50 </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">soft case (121) 5.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;">January 1, 1942 </span>(Catalog BB)</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Electric Banjo 155.00</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">RB 18 210.00 with Gibson mute 225.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 7 131.75</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 75 89.25</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 11 68.25</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 00 36.75</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">CB 75 131.25</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Faultless 521 case 21.00</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Faultless 522 case 27.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">Challenge 121 case 7.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">1948 (No banjo's listed)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">August 1 1949</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">No banjo's or mandolins listed</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: white;">May 20, 1951</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Electric Banjo 155.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 150 175.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 100 125.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">soft case 12.00 (120)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">hard case 37.50 (511)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">March 7 1952 P-13</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">RB 100 132.00</span><br />
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">RB 150 182.00</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">121 Challenge Case 12.00</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">521 Faultess Flannel 37.50</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">A 40 82.00</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">A 50 97.50</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">EM150 160.00</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">101 Case 8.50</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">362. Case 29.50</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">F 12 290.00</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">F5 415.00</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">371 plush faultless 32.50</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">440 plush oblong 42.50</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">July 10 1954</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">RB 100 150.00</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">RB 150 200.00</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">RB 250 250.00</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">121 case 12.75</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">521 Flannel 37.50</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: white;">522 Plush 42.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">November 1956</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 250 330.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">RB 150 270.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 100 198.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">soft case 15.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">hard case 55.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">photos of Joe Maphis and Earl Scruggs</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">July 15, 1957</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 250 295.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">RB 150 245.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 100 185.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">121 12.75</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">521 42.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">522 46.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">March 1958</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 100 195.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">RB 150 260.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">RB 250 310.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">121 case 13.75</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">521 44.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">522 48.75</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">ZC-22 zipper cover 26.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">1959</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 250 295.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">RB 150 245.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 100 185.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Flannel 42.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Plush 46.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">cover 26.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">May 1960 (form G510)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 250 315.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">RB 100 200.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">scruggs tuners 50.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">hard case 40.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">soft case 13.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">3 ply maple rim in description</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">May 1961</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 100 225.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">RB 250 345.00 two tuners 50.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 170.00 179.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">523 42.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">121 15.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">zipper cover 30.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Oct 15, 1962</span></div>
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<div>
<span style="color: white;">RB 100 225.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 250 345.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 170 179.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 175 179.50 LN</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 180 295.00 LN</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Soft case 14.50</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Plush Case 42.00</span></div>
<div>
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<span style="color: white;">Two tuners 50.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: white;">Only found front and back cover for <span style="color: red;">July 15, 1963</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: white;">but on the back it says...New revised prices effective October 15, 1963</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">June 22, 1965</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">No information available</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">October 1, 1966 (Green)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 800 845.00</span><br />
<div>
<span style="color: white;">RB 500 550.00</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white;">RB 250 390.00</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white;">RB 100 265.00</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white;">RB 170 205.00</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white;">RB 175 205.00</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: white;">RB 180 337.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Soft Case 16.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Hard Case 69.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">September 1, 1967</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">800--- 895.00 case included</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">500---635.00 </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">250---465.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">100---300.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">170---240.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">175---250.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">180---340.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">scase-- durabilt 15.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">hcase--faultness plush 55.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">set of two tuners attached 55.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">March 1 1970</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">All American 2600.00 (tenor 2500.00)</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Florentine 2600.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 800 1065.00 case included Opt finishes no up charge</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB500 735.00 Opt finishes no up charge</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 250 550.00 </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 100 350.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 170 285.00 </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 175 290.00 Long neck</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">soft case 15.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Hard Case 523 70.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Nov 22, 1971</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 100 450.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">RB 250 675.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 800 1035.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 170 330.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 175 350.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">soft case 16.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">October 15, 1972</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">All American 2600.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Florentine 2600.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 800 1195.00 </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 250 730.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 100 485.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 170 365.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 175 385.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">soft case 15.00 </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">hard case 509 85.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">June 1 1973</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">pb 800 1230 RB's not shown in page I had access too</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">pb 250 740</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">pb 100 500</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">hcase 89.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">scase 19.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">170 380</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">175 400</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">January 1 1975</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">All American 3999.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Florentine 3999.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">800 1499.00 </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">250 899.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">350 1079.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">100 599.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">hcase</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">optional finish 50.00 up charge cherry sunburst was standard</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">optional inlay 50.00 up charge wreath was standard</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">no prices Roy Clark on cover</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">May 15, 1978</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">All American 3999.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Florentine 3999.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 800 1579.00 optional finishes 95.00 optional inlay 95 cherry sunburst wreath standard</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 250 999.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 100 679.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">case 105.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">1980 copywrite</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Florentine</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 800</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 250</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">no prices listed</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">April 1 1981</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">All American 5649.00 B</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Florentine 5649.00 B</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 800 2199.00 CSB, SSB, AG, NAT, VB, SB. No upcharge mentioned.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 250 1249.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">RB 100 not mentioned</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">623 case 125.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">April 1961 Brownish Orange Brochure</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ranger 169.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Wonder 195.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Professional 290.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">soft case 12.75</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">perfection case flannel lined 42.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">perfection case plush lined 48.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">(First bell flanges shown on Scruggs only in this brochure all others are shoe bracket)</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: white;">"Earl Scruggs now uses a new type Vega Banjo. Design after Mr Scruggs on ideas of construction and tone. It is the perfect banjo for C&W musical performances with brilliant tone and distinctive stage appearance. Different than any other banjo.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Features a new slim action neck. New bracket ring around rim and new resonator flanges. Flat head as always preferred by Scruggs. Pearl position inlays, ebony fingerboard, 3 piece neck, resonator sunburst finish on back, burgundy pearl sides. All metal parts polished nickel plated. Plastic head is moisture proof and stays tight for tone."</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">SR5 345.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">ST same equipped with 2 Scruggs tuners 390.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">plush case 50.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">tuners extra 45.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">"Deluxe Model: A special gold stage presentation model with same basic construction but features a fancy white peg head engraved and colored. White resonator elaborately engraved and colored on side and back. Engraved flanges and tension hoop. All parts are heavily gold plated. Special order basis only."</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">SDL Scruggs Deluxe 2 tuners 880.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">case 50.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Nov 1 1967(Red Brochure)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ranger 248.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Wonder 295.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Pro II 460.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Earl Scruggs Mark II 512.00 Gold 699.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Scruggs Tuners 45 Scruggs Keith Tuners 80.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Sonny Osborne 560.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">October 1 1969 (Blue Brochure)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ranger 290.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Wonder 345.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">New scroll peghead shown</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Pro II 545.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Pro II Custom Gold 745.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Pro II Special Gold with engraved flanges and armrest</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Keith Scruggs tuners installed 80.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">VIP 556.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Custom Gold Plated 756.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Special Gold and engraved Flanges and Arm Rest 812.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Keith Tuners 80.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Carved heel 99.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Plush Case 68.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Earl Scruggs Mark II 605.00 </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Scruggs Soloist 735.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Custom Gold Plating 200.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Engraved Flanges and Tailpiece 56.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Carved Heel 99.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Custom Built (Special Order)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Sonny Osborne 720.00 Custom Built (Special Order)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Scruggs Vega Tuners available 45.00 (Ranger and Wonder Models only)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Geared 5th peg 24.00</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">September 4, 1970 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">(no prices, photo's only)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Bobby Joe Fenster</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Sonny Osborne (Special Order-made to order only)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">(A part of the CF Martin Organization , address still listed as 155 Reservoir Street, Needham Heigths Ma)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">First Earl Scruggs Model with original style peghead, inlay and correct resonator color #1143 April 20, 1988</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">First RB 3 June 28th 1988</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">First Flat Iron (FA Kulish ring used) RB 250 June 27, 2988</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Use of first Sullivan Ring due to Kulish porosity problem. 88-1 Dec 20, 1988 (RB 250)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">First Wreath and Reno inlay pattern on style 3. Oct 6, 1988 for Bill Sullivan</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">First Wreath and Reno inlay offered as custom inlays $140.00 up charge Jan 1989 debut at NAMM</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">First style 3 without pumpkin colored finish.Feb 89</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">First RB 4 4-9002-1 February 22 1990 tr k1009 (7 prototypes Perkins/Sullivan)</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">First RB 4 regular line 4-9003-1 March 12, 1990 </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">First RB 1 1-9110-1 October 5, 1990</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">First Earl Scruggs Golden Deluxe 9109-001 September 16,1991 Owensboro Show tr#2367</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">First Earl Scruggs 49 Classic September 23, 1991</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Earl Scruggs Model 1985 January 17 1992 last signed label. </span></div>
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Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-88700576063316900902018-04-12T09:13:00.002-04:002018-04-12T09:13:20.131-04:00Blue Grass Boy Belt Buckles<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I got the idea of the Blue Grass Boy Belt Buckle from Mr. Grant Turner one day when he told me that Ernest Tubb had some belt buckles made for band members and when they had spent a certain number of months or traveled a certain number of miles they we</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">re given a buckle, Mr. Grant said that Ernest called it the Fraternity of Troubadours. So I set about doing the planning... I had visited a belt buckle convention in Dallas one year and saw the exquisite work of Award Design Metals from Nobel Ok. I got the particulars and saw it was going to be expensive... I came up with the following plan. There were 6 "sets"of a Solid Silver a Gold Silver Plated, and a Solid Brass Buckle each of these were numbered in sequence 3 #1, 3 #2, and so on as I had planned to give a set to each of the companies that I had approached for monetary help with the project. I had contacted MCA Records, The Grand Ole Opry, Blue Grass Unlimited, Pickin Magazine, Gibson Guitars and Martins Guitars. Emory Gordy Jr called and told me that MCA had a policy that they didn't put out any money on an artist unless it was directly related to a release... Roger Siminoff from Pickin Magazine called and said that they would put in the money but they wanted control of the presentation, they had done a couple of things on Nashville Now by that point and I said thank you, but no thank you. I had been doing these Birthday Celebrations since 82 and I saw no need from anyone from the outside to try and take over. Mike Longworth called from Martin and said that he personally would love to help but Chris Martin would never put any money into a project that had a Gibson Mandolin on the front of it...again I said thanks. Charlie Deerngton at Gibson was angry with me due to the things I had told him about his New Gibson Granada prototype and he never passed the information on to Henry. Bud Wendell called from the Opry and said where do I send a check as did Pete Kuykendall of Blue Grass Unlimited...I had asked for $1500.00 from each and here I had $3000.00 of a project that was going to cost much more... I was determined to make sure the project went forward so I sold an original Style 7, 5 string top tension banjo to cover the remaining cost. (Not many people know this) but I was determined to see the project happen. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think I did #7 for Grant Turner(Long time Opry announcer), the guy who gave me the initial buckle idea, The next numbers were the Blue Grass Boys, Tater Tate #8, Blake Williams #9, Tom Ewing # 10,,,I didn't know Mike Feagan has started playing fiddle so I had Billy Joe Foster's as #11, Then I had buckle #12 engraved for Ralph Emery and gave it to Bill so he could make Ralph an honorary Blue Grass Boy, the TV show was running late and we didn't get to do this on the air, but I got with Bill after the show and he presented it to Ralph. I got Mike #119 a couple of weeks later... </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Beginning with buckle #25 I took the donations and birthday wishes in the order that they arrived and engraved them accordingly. Emory Gordy Jr. was 25. Sonny Osborne 26, Del McCoury 27 and so on. The last response I received before the presentation was by Rual Yarbough and he received buckle # 107. After that I found many additional Blue Grass Boys so buckles were given to them but in no particular order from that point on.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Frank Buchanan started a story that the numbers had meaning of the number of Blue Grass Boy they were, but it wasn't based on fact, he kept saying that he was Blue Grass Boy # 37, but his birthday wish and donation for Bill's gift was the 12th that I received. I had sent the first week in July to all the former band members that I had addresses for, telling about the project and asking for birthday wishes and donations if they could make one, the numbers were assigned by the order of their response.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-73339554607169520422018-03-13T16:49:00.000-04:002020-02-13T19:53:17.804-05:00Ongoing Price list of Gibson Banjos and 60's Vega.....<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><span style="color: red; font-size: small;">1926</span> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">(</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Blue Cover) no prices listed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Granada</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 1</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: small;">1927 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">(Yellow Cover) no prices listed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Florentine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Bella Voce</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 2</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: small;">June 1, 1931</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">All American 550.00 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">available in White Holly or American Burl Walnut</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Florentine 450.00 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">available in White Holly or American Burl Walnut</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 6 300.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Granada 200.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 4 150.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">RB 3 115.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 2 75.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">RB 1 60.00</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Faultless 522 case 22.00 ( Silk Plush Lining)</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">1932 </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Catalog U)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">All American 550.00 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">available in White Holly or American Burl Walnut</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Florentine 450.00 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">available in White Holly or American Burl Walnut</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 6 300.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Granada 200.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 4 150.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">RB 3 115.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 2 75.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">RB 1 60.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 11 60.00</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Faultless 522 case 22.00</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: small;">1934 </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: small;">(Catalog W)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">All American 550.00 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Florentine 450.00 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 6 300.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Granada 200.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 4 150.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">RB 3 115.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 2 75.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">RB 1 60.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 11 60.00</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Faultless 522 case 22.00</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";">1937 </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">(Catalog X)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">All American 550.00 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Florentine 450.00 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 6 300.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Granada 200.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 4 150.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">RB 3 100.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Style 11 50.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">RB 1 37.50</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">RB 00 27.50</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Faultless 522 case 22.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Challenge 121 case 5.00 (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">side opening</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">)</span><br />
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RB 12 150.00 with Gibson mute 175.00</div>
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RB 7 110.00</div>
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RB 75 75.00</div>
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RB 11 55.00</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Challenge 121 case 5.50 (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">side opening</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">)</span></div>
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RB 18 200.00 with Gibson mute 225.00</div>
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RB 12 150.00 with Gibson mute 175.00</div>
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RB 7 110.00</div>
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RB 75 75.00</div>
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RB 11 55.00</div>
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RB 1 40.00</div>
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<span style="color: red;">January 1, 1942 </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Catalog BB)</span><br />
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Electric Banjo 155.00<br />
RB 18 210.00 with Gibson mute 225.00</div>
<div style="font-family: "times new roman";">
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RB 7 131.75</div>
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RB 75 89.25</div>
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RB 11 68.25</div>
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RB 00 36.75<br />
CB 75 131.25<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Faultless 521 case 21.00</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Faultless 522 case 27.50</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: xx-small;">Challenge 121 case 7.50</span></div>
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1948 (No banjo's listed)</div>
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<span style="color: red;">August 1 1949</span></div>
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No banjo's or mandolins listed<br />
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<span style="color: red;">May 20, 1951</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
Electric Banjo 155.00</div>
<div>
<div>
RB 150 175.00</div>
<div>
RB 100 125.00</div>
<div>
soft case 12.00 (120)</div>
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<div>
hard case 37.50 (511)</div>
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<span style="color: red;">March 7 1952 P-13</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">RB 100 132.00</span><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
RB 150 182.00</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
121 Challenge Case 12.00</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
521 Faultess Flannel 37.50</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
A 40 82.00</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
A 50 97.50</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
EM150 160.00</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
101 Case 8.50</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
362. Case 29.50</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
F 12 290.00</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
F5 415.00</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
371 plush faultless 32.50</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
440 plush oblong 42.50<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">July 10 1954</span><br />
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RB 100 150.00</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
RB 150 200.00</div>
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RB 250 250.00</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
121 case 12.75</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
521 Flannel 37.50</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
522 Plush 42.50</div>
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<span style="color: red;">November 1956</span></div>
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RB 250 330.00<br />
<div>
<span style="font-size: xx-small; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">RB</span> 150 270.00</div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: xx-small; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">RB</span> 100 198.00</div>
<div>
soft case 15.00</div>
<div>
hard case 55.00</div>
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photos of Joe Maphis and Earl Scruggs</div>
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<span style="color: red;">July 15, 1957</span></div>
<div>
RB 250 295.00<br />
<div>
RB 150 245.00</div>
<div>
RB 100 185.00</div>
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121 12.75</div>
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521 42.00</div>
<div>
522 46.50</div>
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<span style="color: red;">March 1958</span></div>
<div>
RB 100 195.00<br />
<div>
RB 150 260.00<br />
<div>
RB 250 310.00</div>
</div>
<div>
121 case 13.75</div>
<div>
521 44.00</div>
<div>
522 48.75</div>
<div>
ZC-22 zipper cover 26.00</div>
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<div>
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<div>
<span style="color: red;">1959</span></div>
<div>
RB 250 295.00<br />
<div>
RB 150 245.00</div>
<div>
RB 100 185.00</div>
<div>
Flannel 42.00</div>
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Plush 46.50</div>
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cover 26.00</div>
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<span style="color: red;">May 1960 <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(form G510)</span></span></div>
<div>
RB 250 315.00<br />
<div>
RB 100 200.00</div>
<div>
scruggs tuners 50.00</div>
<div>
hard case 40.50</div>
<div>
soft case 13.50</div>
<div>
3 ply maple rim in description</div>
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<div>
<span style="color: red;">May 1961</span></div>
<div>
RB 100 225.00<br />
<div>
RB 250 345.00 two tuners 50.00</div>
<div>
RB 170.00 179.50</div>
<div>
523 42.00</div>
<div>
121 15.00</div>
<div>
zipper cover 30.00</div>
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<div>
<span style="color: red;">Oct 15, 1962</span></div>
<div>
<div>
RB 100 225.00</div>
<div>
RB 250 345.00</div>
<div>
RB 170 179.50</div>
<div>
RB 175 179.50 LN</div>
<div>
RB 180 295.00 LN</div>
<div>
Soft case 14.50</div>
<div>
Plush Case 42.00</div>
<div>
<div>
Two tuners 50.00</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
Only found front and back cover for <span style="color: red;">July 15, 1963</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div>
but on the back it says...New revised prices effective October 15, 1963</div>
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<span style="color: red;">June 22, 1965</span></div>
<div>
No information available</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: red;">October 1, 1966 (Green)</span></div>
<div>
RB 800 845.00<br />
<div>
RB 500 550.00</div>
<div>
RB 250 390.00</div>
<div>
RB 100 265.00</div>
<div>
RB 170 205.00</div>
<div>
RB 175 205.00</div>
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RB 180 337.00</div>
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Soft Case 16.00</div>
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Hard Case 69.00<br />
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<span style="color: red;">September 1, 1967</span></div>
<div>
800--- 895.00 case included<br />
<div>
500---635.00 </div>
<div>
250---465.00</div>
<div>
100---300.00</div>
<div>
170---240.00</div>
<div>
175---250.00</div>
<div>
180---340.00</div>
<div>
scase-- durabilt 15.00</div>
<div>
hcase--faultness plush 55.00</div>
<div>
set of two tuners attached 55.00</div>
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<span style="color: red;">March 1 1970</span></div>
<div>
All American 2600.00 (tenor 2500.00)<br />
<div>
Florentine 2600.00</div>
<div>
RB 800 1065.00 case included <span style="font-size: xx-small; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">Opt finishes no up charge</span></div>
<div>
RB500 735.00 Opt finishes no up charge</div>
<div>
RB 250 550.00 </div>
<div>
RB 100 350.00</div>
<div>
RB 170 285.00 </div>
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RB 175 290.00 Long neck</div>
<div>
soft case 15.00</div>
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Hard Case 523 70.00</div>
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<div>
<span style="color: red;">Nov 22, 1971</span></div>
<div>
RB 100 450.00<br />
<div>
RB 250 675.00</div>
<div>
RB 800 1035.00</div>
<div>
RB 170 330.00</div>
<div>
RB 175 350.00</div>
<div>
soft case 16.00</div>
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<span style="color: red;">October 15, 1972</span></div>
<div>
All American 2600.00<br />
<div>
Florentine 2600.00</div>
<div>
RB 800 1195.00 </div>
<div>
RB 250 730.00</div>
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RB 100 485.00</div>
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RB 170 365.00</div>
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RB 175 385.00</div>
<div>
soft case 15.00 </div>
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hard case 509 85.00</div>
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<span style="color: red;">June 1 1973</span></div>
<div>
pb 800 1230 RB's not shown in page I had access too<br />
<div>
<div>
pb 250 740</div>
<div>
pb 100 500</div>
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hcase 89.00</div>
<div>
scase 19.00</div>
<div>
170 380</div>
<div>
175 400</div>
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<span style="color: red;">May 1, 1974</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">All American 3005.00</span><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
Florentine 3005.00</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
RB 800 1375.00 case included</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
Optional Finishes and inlay patterns at no additional cost</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
RB 250 855.00 case 98.00</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
RB 100 565.00 case 98.00</div>
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<div>
<span style="color: red;">January 1 1975</span></div>
<div>
All American 3999.00<br />
<div>
Florentine 3999.00</div>
<div>
800 1499.00 </div>
<div>
250 899.00</div>
<div>
350 1079.00</div>
<div>
100 599.00</div>
<div>
hcase</div>
<div>
optional finish 50.00 up charge cherry sunburst was standard</div>
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optional inlay 50.00 up charge wreath was standard</div>
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no prices Roy Clark on cover</div>
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<span style="color: red;">May 15, 1978</span></div>
<div>
All American 3999.00<br />
<div>
Florentine 3999.00</div>
<div>
RB 800 1579.00 optional finishes 95.00 optional inlay 95 cherry sunburst wreath standard</div>
<div>
RB 250 999.00</div>
<div>
RB 100 679.00</div>
<div>
case 105.00<br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">August 1, 1979</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">All American 4299.00 Case and case cover included</span><br />
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
Florentine 4299.00 Case and case cover included.</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
800 1679.00 Wreath Pattern, Cherry Sunburst</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
Optional finishes 95.00</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
ASB Antique Sunburst, NAT Natural, AG Argentine Grey, VB Viceroy Brown, SB sunburst</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
Optional inlays 95.00</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
Hearts and Flowers or Flying Eagle</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
case included</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
250 1069.00</div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
100 729.00 </div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
Hard Case 105.00 </div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
Case Cover 75.00</div>
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All American<br />
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Florentine</div>
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RB 800</div>
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RB 250</div>
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no prices listed</div>
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<span style="color: red;">April 1 1981</span></div>
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All American 5649.00 B<br />
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Florentine 5649.00 B</div>
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RB 800 2199.00 CSB, SSB, AG, NAT, VB, SB. No upcharge mentioned.</div>
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RB 250 1249.00</div>
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RB 100 not mentioned</div>
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623 case 125.00</div>
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Ranger 169.00</div>
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Wonder 195.00</div>
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soft case 12.75</div>
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perfection case flannel lined 42.00</div>
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perfection case plush lined 48.00<br />
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"Earl Scruggs now uses a new type Vega Banjo. Design after Mr Scruggs on ideas of construction and tone. It is the perfect banjo for C&W musical performances with brilliant tone and distinctive stage appearance. Different than any other banjo.<br />
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Features a new slim action neck. New bracket ring around rim and new resonator flanges. Flat head as always preferred by Scruggs. Pearl position inlays, ebony fingerboard, 3 piece neck, resonator sunburst finish on back, burgundy pearl sides. All metal parts polished nickel plated. Plastic head is moisture proof and stays tight for tone."<br />
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SR5 345.00</div>
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ST same equipped with 2 Scruggs tuners 390.00</div>
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plush case 50.00</div>
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tuners extra 45.00<br />
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"Deluxe Model: A special gold stage presentation model with same basic construction but features a fancy white peg head engraved and colored. White resonator elaborately engraved and colored on side and back. Engraved flanges and tension hoop. All parts are heavily gold plated. Special order basis only."</div>
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SDL Scruggs Deluxe 2 tuners 880.00</div>
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Ranger 248.00</div>
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Pro II 460.00</div>
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Earl Scruggs Mark II 512.00 Gold 699.00</div>
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Scruggs Tuners 45 Scruggs Keith Tuners 80.00</div>
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Sonny Osborne 560.00<br />
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Ranger 272.00<br />
Wonder 325.00<br />
Pro II 510.00<br />
Pro II Custom Gold 710.00<br />
VIP 520.00<br />
Earl Scruggs Mark II 568.00<br />
Earl Scruggs Soloist 655.00<br />
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Special Gold plating 200<br />
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Sonny Osborne Model 670.00<br />
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Ranger 290.00</div>
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Wonder 345.00</div>
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Pro II 545.00</div>
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Pro II Custom Gold 745.00</div>
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Pro II Special Gold with engraved flanges and armrest</div>
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Keith Scruggs tuners installed 80.00</div>
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VIP 556.00</div>
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Custom Gold Plated 756.00</div>
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Special Gold and engraved Flanges and Arm Rest 812.00</div>
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Keith Tuners 80.00</div>
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Carved heel 99.00</div>
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Plush Case 68.00</div>
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Earl Scruggs Mark II 605.00 </div>
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Scruggs Soloist 735.00</div>
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Custom Gold Plating 200.00</div>
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Engraved Flanges and Tailpiece 56.00</div>
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Carved Heel 99.00</div>
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Sonny Osborne 720.00 Custom Built (Special Order)</div>
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Scruggs Vega Tuners available 45.00 (Ranger and Wonder Models only)</div>
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Geared 5th peg 24.00</div>
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5th string sliding capo 7.25<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(A part of the CF Martin Organization</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> , address still listed as 155 Reservoir</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Street, Needham Heigths Ma</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">)</span></div>
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First Earl Scruggs Model with original style peghead, inlay and correct resonator color #1143 April 20, 1988</div>
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First RB 3 June 28th 1988</div>
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First Flat Iron (FA Kulish ring used) RB 250 June 27, 2988</div>
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Use of first Sullivan Ring due to Kulish porosity problem. 88-1 Dec 20, 1988 (RB 250)</div>
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First Wreath and Reno inlay pattern on style 3. Oct 6, 1988 for Bill Sullivan</div>
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First Wreath and Reno inlay offered as custom inlays $140.00 up charge Jan 1989 debut at NAMM</div>
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First style 3 without pumpkin colored finish.Feb 89</div>
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First RB 4 4-9002-1 February 22 1990 tr k1009 (7 prototypes Perkins/Sullivan)</div>
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First RB 4 regular line 4-9003-1 March 12, 1990 </div>
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First RB 1 1-9110-1 October 5, 1990</div>
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First Earl Scruggs Golden Deluxe 9109-001 September 16,1991 Owensboro Show tr#2367</div>
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First Earl Scruggs 49 Classic September 23, 1991</div>
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Earl Scruggs Model 1985 January 17 1992 last signed label. </div>
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Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-74455745272265465072015-12-02T11:59:00.000-05:002015-12-02T11:59:01.256-05:00David Deese's Musical Career<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> (This was provided at his services in March 2011)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> I was born on July 9<sup>th</sup>, 1941 near Salisbury,
N.C. I was married to my wife Barbara in June of 1961. We have one Daughter, Connie who graduated
from ECU and is now married.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> My main influences wee a banjo picking grandfather (Burl
D. Deese) and a guitar picking Dad. (C.D. “Tom” Deese) I also played clarinet in the school band.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I began playing guitar on
stage when I was 12 years old and started on banjo when I was 15 years
old. I learned a number of chords and
some finger work from a banjo picker whose name was Howard Kizziah. I started doing radio work 4 days later. During the next four years I entered every
fiddlers convention within a hundred miles.
I won first place at least once at each one. While still a teenager I began playing on
television and radio with Dad in Spartanburg, S.C.; Albemarle and Mt.Airy, N.C.
We were doing show at such places as the Old Dominion Barn dance in Richmond,
Virginia, where I met such artist as Bill Monroe, Don Reno & Red Smiley,
Louvin Brothers, Mac Wiseman, Stonewall Jackson, and Chief Powhatan---several
of which I would work with or record with later. At the Old Dominion, Dad and I did not use a
band--- it was just the two of us. We
went over quite well with the audience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> On Thursday, December 29<sup>th</sup>, 1960 in Charlotte
N.C., Jim Buchanan and I were introduced to each other by Arthur Smith. About an hour later the two of us were hired
by Arthur as a fiddle-banjo-singing duet.
On Monday, January 9, 1961 we began to do five one hour early morning TV
shows on a daily basis. We also did a
half hour <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Thursday night show and five
minute daily radio shows. Road shows
were played on Friday and Saturday and took us all over the two Carolina’s and
occasionally into Georgia and Virginia.
Arthur had a very nice recording studio, so we recorded for Arthur and
we were staff musicians for anyone recording there if they didn’t have their
own musicians. I was with Arthur for
nineteen months. During that time I and
all other band members switched off to play other instruments. I played banjo, guitar, upright bass,
electric bass, and bass guitar (has six strings---much heavier gauge guitar
strings, but not as heavy as electric bass strings). Most people don’t know such and instrument
exists. A lot of people call and electric a bass guitar, but a bass guitar is
all together a different animal. I even
did a little snare drum work while with Arthur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> In early July 1962, I headed for Nashville looking for a
banjo picking job with no prior prospects.
I arrived on a Saturday and hung around back stage door of the
Ryman. Soon Josh Graves arrived for his
show with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.
I knew him through Ray Atkins. In
our conversation he learned that I was looking for a job. He told me to meet him the next day at noon
at the Crystal Restaurant/Donut Shop. He
arranged a meeting for me with Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper at their home. The four of us picked for a while. Wilma Lee and Stoney told me they could use
me. I was to work a notice with Arthur
and come back in a few weeks with no agreement made as to the exact date I
would return.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> When I returned in two weeks, I was told by Wilma Lee’s
sister, Jerrie, that Wilma Lee and Stoney were in Missouri for four days. I had left most of my money in N.C. with my
wife who was enrolling in college in Salisbury, N.C. So here I am, four hundred miles from home, nearly broke, no place to
stay, and my new job at least a week away.
Since it was Saturday night I headed back to the Opry hoping to run into
Josh again. It turned out that he was
out of town, too. I hung around the back
door of the Opry looking for a familiar face.
I didn’t see one, but God knew I was in a tight spot so he sent a man
who knew MY face. Frank Buchanan was the
current guitar picker and lead singer for Bill Monroe. Frank had seen me on the Arthur Smith Show
from his home in Marion, N.C. When Frank
found out my situation, he suggested I talk to Bill because his banjo picker,
Tony Ellis, had just quit. I went into
the Opry and talked with Bill. We made
arrangements to meet the next morning in the Clarkston Hotel Coffee Shop. When we met the next morning Bill took me
over to WSM where he had me to play several tunes while he read his mail. He told me they would be leaving Limbaugh’s
at 1:00 am that night. I was to be there
with dress pants, white shirt, tie and white hat for a couple of days in
Illinois. Those days we traveled in and
Old Oldsmobile station wagon with over 200 thousand miles on it. We traveled with a five piece band,
instruments including an upright bass, clothes and two Pekinese dogs. There were no fast food places, very few
truck stops, very few interstate highways, and motels were out of the question
due to the cost and lean times. Rock
& Roll was killing country music as well as bluegrass. We were doing good just to have work. Pay was not so great. At the time the Opry acts were required to work the Opry at least 26 weeks
out of the year. This meant you need to
be there at least every other weekend.
This brought about a lot of extra mileage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> While working with Bill I boarded at Mom Upchurch’s home along with eight other Opry
musicians. Some of these were Frank
Buchanan, Shorty Lavender, Buddy Spicher, and Benny Williams. I roomed with Frank.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> In 1964 I was living back in Salisbury, N.C. and working
as a prison guard for the N.C. Prison System.
My wife was a public school teacher, so we were both set with the state
retirement system. I had the fullest
intentions of working for the state for twenty or thirty years and retiring a
young man. The second week of November,
1964 Carlton Haney called to say that Don Reno and Red Smiley, a mainstay in
bluegrass music, was splitting up. He
also said that Red wanted me for his banjo picker. At first I said no because I felt hey would
be back together again in two or three weeks.
Carlton ask me to sleep on it and he would call back the next day. I decided to go up to Roanoke, Virginia to
talk to Red in person. When Barbara and
I arrived in Roanoke on Saturday, we found that the band was out of town until
Sunday. We took a room for the night at
a motel on the hill above where the band members lived. We went to see Red on Sunday about
lunchtime. He listened to me play, and
assured me that he and Don would not be reuniting. In fact he said that Don was moving away and
forming his own band. I stressed that my
style of picking was on thing like Don Reno’s, but Red said he wanted to create
his own style and not be a copy of “Reno and Smiley“. We discussed what I would be doing and
salary.. We shook hands on the deal and
I went back to North Carolina to work a two week notice. I moved to Roanoke on Sunday Nov. 29<sup>th</sup>
1964 and began work on Monday, Nov. 30 1964 with Red Smiley and the Bluegrass
Cut-Ups on WDBJ-TV’S TOP OF THE MORNING show.
Don left on November 25<sup>th</sup> 1964 to start his own band. Mack Magaha left to join Porter Wagoner. The new band consisted of Red Smiley, John
Palmer, Gene Burroughs, Bobby Lester and myself. We did an early morning TV show every weekday
in Roanoke and a Saturday evening show in Harrisonburg, Virginia on
WSVA-TV. We would go to Harrisonburg every
other week to tape one show and do one live.
We would come back to Verona, VA. To play for a dance. We worked that dance every Saturday night
that we were not on the road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> During the Red Smiley days, we worked a lot of coliseum
package shows. At these package shows I
backed such artist as Lefty Frizell, Minnie Pearl, Jean Shepherd, Chief
Powhatan, Benny Martin, Stonewall Jackson, Barbara Allen, Red Rector, Mac
Wiseman, Bill Monroe, Clyde Moody, Jim Eanes, Jeff Simmons, Mother Maybelle
& the Carter Family, Hylo Brown and Carl Story. One weekend in April, 1966, Red became ill
just before a show at the Greensboro Coliseum.
We had to admit him to the hospital.
Don’s new band and Red’s new band joined forces since both groups were
short some of their members. I picked
guitar---Red’s D-45 Martin. From the
records I kept during my <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Arthur Smith days, it looks
like I worked about every town in North and South Carolina. I had picked all around Charlotte, but had
never picked the Charlotte Coliseum. The
first Saturday night I was with Red we picked at the Charlotte Coliseum with
Don Reno’s new band, Lefty Frizell, Minnie Pearl, Ray Price, Dottie West and
Hank Snow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Friday, January 22, 1965, we started a new weekly TV show
at WOAY-TV in Oak Hill, WVA. We did four
shows at a time---We did one live and taped three. This way we only had to go to Oak Hill one
time each month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> January 27,th 1965 we recorded “Grandpa Played the
Fiddle,” “Swinging a Nine Pound Hammer,” and four other tunes, but none of
these were ever released. George Winn
joined us on mandolin for those cuts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> February 17, 1965 we started taping shows for WLAC-TV in
Nashville, Tennessee. We would tape 25
numbers and they would put them into a bluegrass show that they had going at
that time. It may have been on a program
with the Boys from Shilo. I remember we
did a few shows live in Nashville.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> May 19, 1965 we recorded five more songs but these were
never released Due to a disagreement, the master of these five tunes were
destroyed, that that’s another story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Thursday, August 12, 1965 marked the first change in Red
Smiley’s Bluegrass Cut-Ups. Bobby Lester
left the show on this date which left us without a fiddle player for a couple
of days. Bonny Beverly started on fiddle
for us the following Monday morning which was August 16, 1965.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> I was on the very first Bluegrass Festival in Fincastle,
Virginia which was held on September 3 & 4, 1965. This festival was the turning point for
Bluegrass Music. It started an activity
that has become a multi-million dollar business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Tuesday, October 26<sup>th</sup> 1965 Tater Tate joined
the Bluegrass Cut-Up’s on Fiddle.
Saturday and Sunday, January 22 and 23, 1966 we recorded two albums at
Wayne Raney’s Studio in Concord, Arkansas.
One album was a Red Smiley gospel album and the other was a Tater Tate
fiddle album.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">May 19, 1966 we started a
nightly 15 minute radio show for WWVA, Wheeling West Virginia. We taped them at our studio in Hollins,
Virginia. We would tape a week’s worth
at one time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> June 4, 1966 we became members of the Wheeling Jamboree,
performing every three weeks. We rotated
with Mac Wiseman, Charlie Moore and Bill Napier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Wednesday, July 6, 1966 was my last show with Red and the
Cut-Ups. “Uncle Sam” felt he need me in
the army more than Red did. I spent
three years in the Army. One year of that was spent in Vietnam and the
last 14 months was spent in Richmond, Virginia at eh Induction Station as a
clerk typist. I left the Army with a
rank of Specialist 5.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> While in Richmond I recorded an album with Chief
Powhatan. It was later released on the
Old Homestead label. Shortly after moving to Richmond I became the
banjo picker for George Winn and his band.
Another banjo picker friend, Fred Duff was picking for Ray Lumpkin. Both bands were playing clubs in and around
Richmond nearly every night. George and
his band landed a USO tour that included Vietnam. I had just returned from spending a year there and had no intentions of going
back, even to protected areas. Fred had
not been anywhere like that and said he’d like to go---so, with the consent of
the band leaders , he and I traded banjo picking jobs for the duration of the
tour. After the tour, he was satisfied
working with Georges’s band and I was happy with Ray’s band, so we never traded
back. I stayed with Ray, Bernie Wright
and Danny Proctor until I got out the Army in July, 1969.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> In April my wife and I had a baby girl who is named after
me. My name is Clonnie David Deese,
Jr. In the military you are called by
your first name and your middle initial which made me Clonnie D. Our daughter’s name is Connie Dee. She has been the light of both our
lives. When I left the military I was
ready to come home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> A few months before I left the military Red had retired
and given up his television programs so we came home to North Carolina. Upon returning to civilian life, I went back
to being a machinist --- a trade I had been apprenticing off and on since right
out of high school and between picking jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> In November of 1971, I received a call from Bruce and Lee
Jones. They had just separated from Carl
Story and needed a guitar picker. I took
the job. They were working a lot of
festivals at the time, mainly due to the popularity of the Troy festival owned
by our fiddle player, Frank Hamilton.
The group also had a weekly TV show.
The band featured the Jones Brothers, Frank on the fiddle, Frankie
Belcher on banjo and me on guitar.
Frankie and I also did a lot of twin banjo numbers for about two and one
half years. Frankie left to join Charlie
Moore. Carl Coble was hired to pick
guitar and I switched over the banjo full time.
Labor Day 1975 Frank Hamilton and Carl Coble left the group. Joe Smith was hired to pick guitar and David
Johnson to play Fiddle. Joe left in 1979
so Harold Huntley came on board to pick guitar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> In 1983 or 84, we dropped back to a four member band,
because at Hoboken, Georgia our fiddle player had a heart attack. We got used to being just four-strong and
never did hire another fiddler.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> In 1990 we hired a
young guitar picker that Harold had trained, Larry Greene. On June 12, 1991, cancer took the life of
Harold Huntley. It was only fitting that
Larry remain with us. He was/is a fine
guitar player and a fine young man in every way which is necessary to get along
on the road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> In 1992 I resigned from the Jones Brothers Band having
completed twenty-one years with them. My
resignation was due to my needing a change of pace and not due to any conflicts
within the group. I wanted to form my
own band and have done just that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> In 1991 a dear friend of mine, Shannon Grayson --- banjo
picker for “The Original WBT Briarhoppers” became extremely ill with Alzheimer’s
Disease. He asked me to fill in for
him. Although I was still with the Jones
Brothers and was quietly forming my own band, I agreed to step into his slot
for the “Briarhopper”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> The Briarhoppers consist of Hank Warren on Fiddle, Don
White on Bass, Arvil Hogan on mandolin, Roy Grant on guitar and I do the banjo
work. The band is altogether another
story that could easily fill book of great thickness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> I had for several years had a desire to form my own
band. In 1991 I head that Betty and J.T.
Fisher had moved from Texas back to South Carolina, so I went to find
them. I had already been tracking down
Larry Plyler, but hadn’t located him yet.
As it turned out I found Larry and the Fishers at about the same
time. J.T. had done a lot of band
managing and booking when Betty had her own band back in the 70’s, so he was in
my plans, too. Betty, T.J. and I
talked. After I explained what I wanted
to do, they decided they would enjoy that too.
A meeting was arranged at our home to get with Larry to see what kind of
harmony we could come up with. We felt
we had something a little different and decided we should get going as a
unit. Glenn Brown and Ralph Keller were
asked to join us to round out the “Betty Fisher-David Deese and Dixie Bluegrass”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Over the years I have recorded many, many albums. During my years with the Jones Brothers we
recorded over a dozen. During the 70’s
and 80’s I did a lot of free lance recording with a variety of artist; most
notably with Mac Wiseman. Our current
group began our career together by recording two albums --- “Branching Out” and
“I’m Just a Stranger Here”. We feel that
we have a little something for everyone.
We get along well and have a mutual respect for each other. Our goal is to work about two bluegrass
festivals each month hopefully for two days each. We really don’t care t work more than two
weekends per month because of other interest and family life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> During the time I was with the Jones Brothers, I went
back to college and got a degree in accounting and business
administration. In 1976 I formed my own
accounting/bookkeeping business which I still operate. I keep books and accounts for small
businesses as well as individual of-the-street income tax returns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> I am very active as a Mason, Scottish Rite and
Shrine. Barbara and I are also active in
the Eastern Star.</span></div>
Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-62605518302372431412015-10-22T19:17:00.000-04:002018-07-06T21:40:43.692-04:00Edd Mayfield "The Mystery Man" by Doug HutchensIn the short history of bluegrass music many individuals have passed through the few major bands. During the late 40's and early 50's bands sporting a contract with a major recording company or privileged with a major radio and later TV exposure could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Many of these individuals received their schooling or paid their dues to break into the music business with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys.<br />
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Monroe was the founding father of this new musical form. He was heard each week on the Grand Ole Opry so the Blue Grass Boys was a natural choice for aspiring musicians. After a short tenure these musicians would break out on their own and many are the established bluegrass bands of today.<br />
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Living on the road has never been easy. In the 50's there were no interstate highways. Bands usually traveled in cars or station wagons loaded with all the gear, instruments, clothes, a PA set and all the band members. Needless to say the life was hard and led to a constant turnover of musicians, but with this constant supply of new entertainers came a constant supply of energetic new ideas. Each new man coming into a group would bring new blood into a musical form that had been defined less than ten years before.<br />
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One individual who made lasting contributions to bluegrass music and unfortunately didn't live to reap the harvest of his contributions was Edd Mayfield. In a recent conversation with Doug Green (A former Blue Grass Boy and now with Riders in the Sky) he called Edd "The Mystery Man". Edd's time was limited but in his three short terms with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys he managed to record twenty songs before being stricken with acute leukemia. His style of guitar playing and lead singing had been seldom-if ever-equaled.<br />
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Thomas Edward Mayfield was born April 12, 1926 on a ranch near Dawn, Texas, some 30 miles southwest of Amarillo. The Mayfields were a family who knew the meaning of the word work, they ranched 67 sections of grass (a section being 640 acres)<br />
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Neppie (Short for Penelope) and W.F.Mayfield raised two girls and six boys, Libby Ruth, Mary Lorena, Ruben, Rufus, James, Herb Arlie (Smokey) and Thomas Edward. From the time the kids were old enough to hold an instrument they had the opportunity and were encouraged to play music. There mother played the guitar in a finger style and their father played the fiddle. The Mayfield home was a constant source of musical entertainment. The children learned a variety of break-downs, waltzes, hornpipes and other early country music.<br />
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Herb recalls "I can remember Smokey sawing on Pa's old fiddle. He was about five years old I think and was too small the hold the fiddle, so he would stand and prop it against the wall and his chest. To this day he holds the fiddle between his hand and his elbow.<br />
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Young Edd or Thomas as he was called until after high school, first learned to chord the mandolin. When he was large enough to reach the neck he moved to the guitar.<br />
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In the early 30's the Mayfield family met a young musician named Arnold Geiger who was to leave a lasting impression on the family's music. Arnold's father was a depot agent for the Santa Fe Railroad and had just moved to Dawn when the Mayfield family met him. Herb remembers, "This boy was a musician, so we just invited him out to the house to play. He was around 20 years old and made some runs on the guitar that we hadn't heard before. That was before we heard Monroe or anyone else'..From that time young Edd took the many runs he had learned from Geiger and expanded on them. Herb recalls "We moved to Dimmitt, Texas in 1932 and with nothing much happening except that the family got their first radio in 1934 and we were fortunate enough to get the Grand Ole Opry. We heard Bill and Charlie Monroe and later the Blue Grass Boys and were really excited over what we heard."<br />
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When they moved to Dimmitt, the Mayfields moved onto a two and one-half section farm where they raised dry land wheat and ran about a hundred head of Black Angus cattle. During the summer the boys would spend time riding pastures, checking for sick cattle and mending fences. "You leave the ranch house on horseback before daylight' Smokey recalls, "You'd ride all day and may not make it back to your camp by dark, so you'd ride to one of the line shacks, stay overnight then ride all the next day before you got back to your camp." Winter time would find them hitching a team of mules, loading the wagon with cottonseed cake to feed the cattle.<br />
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The Mayfield boys, like all eager young musicians, practiced every free moment. Many times they would race to the house, dead tired from work in the fields, just to get a few extra minutes of playing before a meal or beginning the daily evening chores.<br />
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The boys were also active in high school sports. Edd was on the first team from Dimmitt to go to the Texas State Basketball Championship. As the boy graduated high school they were inducted into service.<br />
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Herb recalls, "During the second Word War, four of us were inducted into the service. Two in the Pacific and two in Europe. All the way through the War, Edd carried his guitar. We all came through it OK, along with Edd's guitar."<br />
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Soon after he got out of service, Edd began dating a young lady, Jo Laverne McLain, "The first song Edd sang for me was 'Footprints In The Snow', " Jody remembers, "Edd always said his favorite songs were 'Footprints In The Snow' and 'Uncle Pen.'"<br />
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Jody and Edd were married in 1948 and two years later became the parents of their first son , Freddy.<br />
While in service, Edd met Bill Myrick from Monroe, Louisiana. He had booked some shows for Bill Monroe and was acquainted with Horace Logan at the Louisiana Hayride. Bill Myrick asked the Mayfield Brothers to come down and arranged an audition for the saturday night show. They played two weekends on the Louisiana Hayride then made a deal with KSEL radio in Lubbock, Texas, where they would work a live show each week.<br />
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At the time the band consisted of Herb on the mandolin, Bill Myrick on the guitar, Smokey playing the fiddle, and Edd on the other guitar. (There were very few if any five-string banjos in the area at the time.) They worked the KSEL Jamboree for about a year and during that time they first met Bill Monroe. Bill Myrick arranged to book the Mayfield Brothers on several double-header shows with Bill Monroe. Herb remembers the meeting, "We did the old song 'Keep On The Firing Line' on the show and Monroe came around the show and said that was the best rendition of that song he'd ever heard. That gave us alot of enthusiasm and that's where we got acquainted with Monroe." Not long after that meeting Edd contacted Monroe and inquired about a job.<br />
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Recently I asked Bill about Edd Mayfield and the first time they met. "I believe we were in Texas and him (Edd) and his two brothers Smokey and Herb and came by and they talk with us some. I believe later on, that Edd may have stayed in touch with me and come up here to Bean Blossom for a while. Birch was here and they had a group here. I can't remember who was in the group but anyhow he hung on here til I needed him in the Blue Grass group. Then he moved to Nashville, he moved his wife and two boys and lived out on the farm where we live."<br />
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Joe Drumwright remembers Edd's audition. "I was there when Edd tried out. Bill called me up to the hotel and said I have a fellow up here and I'd like to try him out. So I walked in and there that ole boy with that big Texas hat, and that big Gibson guitar and a thumbpick. I thought what kind of turkey is this, until, I played about two tunes with him. He was great. You couldn't get him out of time and he played some of the best backing notes you ever heard in your life. Edd was way ahead of his time. There wasn't anyone even close to him back then. He big ole strong hands and could chord a guitar all day."<br />
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Edd got the job and on October 28, 1951, he did his first recording session as a Blue Grass Boy. "The First Whippoorwill" and "Christmas Times A-Coming" have both became standards in bluegrass. Those who listen close to his voice on these recording will note a difference in his voice compared to later recordings. This was due to Edd having a very bad cold that day. Gordon Terry was on that first session and remembers, "I was with Bill when Edd first came to work. He was a good boy. I think he was one of the best guitar players and lead singers that Bill had. He sure had a high voice, Bill couldn't get them to high for him. He had a little different guitar style. Most guitar players before then had been kinda the same style but Edd was a really good guitar player for Bill's type of stuff. And at that time coming from Texas was kind of unheard of for bluegrass."<br />
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Edd worked until early 1952 then he returned to Texas. Herb says. "He worked on different cattle ranches around, but we still managed a few show dates as the Green Valley Boys. <br />
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We managed to get a contract with 4 Star Records, but were were told they were not giving enough so we passed up, only to learn too late it was the same contract they signed with other bands."<br />
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In early 1953 Edd returned to work with Monroe, this time he went to Bean Blossom to live. Jimmy Martin was playing guitar with the Blue Grass Boys so Edd and his wife Jody and son Freddy moved to Bean Blossom where he was a part of the band that played each weekend.<br />
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In March, Edd and Jody became proud parents of another son. "Carl was born in March and the snow was so deep" Jody recalls, "Edd carried me home from the hospital in knee deep snow.' Not long after Carl was born Jimmy Martin left the Blue Grass Boys and Edd replaced him. In June of 1954 he again recorded with Monroe. "My Little Georgia Rose. (a second version of the song for Decca) "Close By" and "Put My Little Shoes Away" were cut. Later that year in September he worked the session where "Blue Moon of Kentucky" was re-recorded. In the late autumn again he decided to go back to Texas. This time he worked for the rodeo producer, Morris Stevens.<br />
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Stevens provided rodeo stock for all the major rodeos in the Texas Panhandle, New Mexico and Oklahoma area. Edd became a full time rodeo hand and contestant.<br />
But the longing to play music was too strong. In early 1958 he returned to Nashville. He recorded the gospel album "I Saw The Light" during February and March and in April 1958 recorded the two classic instrumentals "Scotland" and Panhandle Country". (The latter is played in C chord. Edd capo-ed down three frets and played the break in A to get a better tone.)<br />
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I asked several former Blue Grass Boys about Edd. "Edd was a very pleasant fellow and very much a man," Kenny Baker responded. "He played a mighty strong guitar."<br />
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"What I will always remember most about Edd is his quiet nature,: recalled Merle "Red" Taylor, "He was always a friend to everyone. Among other things he was a real Texas cowboy. He could ride and rope cattle with the best of them. I think Edd Mayfield stood just as high with Bill Monroe singing as any man who ever sung with him."<br />
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James Monroe remembers, "I used to get Edd to pitch baseball with me. They would come in off the road dead tired, but Edd would always take tome to play ball. He was a stout man too. He could climb a rope with out using his feet. He was powerful."<br />
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In a recent show at Bean Blossom I talked to Bill Monroe about Edd Mayfield.<br />
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"Well Edd was a good man and he was a good guitar man, a good singer." I asked if he added anything to bluegrass. "Yes, Sir, he did. He played a great part in bluegrass when he came in there with me. He was wonderful in the quartet and our duets together. Yes, Sir, I thought a lot of Edd, he was great on that quartet album, 'I Saw The Light.'"<br />
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I asked Bill if he's had any guitar men who played the way Edd did. "No, Sir. He had his own style and was really good with it. Edd was a strong man, he helped me move a house there on the farm. He was really stout."<br />
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"You Know the old time way of digging post holes, he could really dig a post hole. He could ride a horse and lasso any kind of cow or calf. One time they seen him go over the bank here on his horse--the horse was named Pal. He named that horse after, 'Goodbye Old Pal.' So they seen him go over the hill running that bull. So when they all went over that hill to see what went on, they didn't know what happened. They went down to where he was. The bull was laying down, Edd had throw ed him and tied him and was standing up there by Pal. Pal was right there with him."<br />
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Bill spoke of the last trip that Edd took: "We left Nashville one time from the farm. I could tell he was looking bad. He didn't look good. We went on to Pulaski, Virginia. We went to a hospital and they couldn't take him in there someway. I don't know why, We went on into Bluefield and I took him to see a doctor there. So, then they come back to me and told me he had about three days to live, I went to calling his people, got his wife to come on up from Nashville. I stayed with him all the way.<br />
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He was a fellow who really loved watermelon and I asked him what he'd like to have that day and he said 'some watermelon.' So I went and got him some watermelon and brought it back to him. He went to eating some and like it and I told him that watermelon was from Kentucky. You know we used to kid each other about Kentucky and Texas. I told him that that watermelon was from Kentucky, he laughed and said, "That's the best kind, ain't it!" When his wife and boys got there , he got to speak to his sons I think and told them, "You are going to have to let me rest.' He focused his eyes up there on the wall in the corner and he just stayed right there. I'd say in fifteen or twenty minutes he was gone. I guess Edd really loved Texas. They buried him in Texas--Dimmit, Texas.<br />
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"Edd was the kind of man who loved mother nature, that's what I've always loved and he really loved mother nature. Its a shame that he had to leave so young.'<br />
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Edd Mayfield passed away July 7, 1958 at the age of 32. Merle "Red" Taylor's words say it all, "We lost a great friend in Edd Mayfield, but his life and music will remain in all our memories forever."<br />
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Written By Doug Hutchens and Reprinted by Permission of Blue Grass Unlimited. pp.26-30 August 1983Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-30079099372044362112012-05-17T20:40:00.004-04:002015-12-29T14:21:32.749-05:00<span style="font-size: x-large;">Doug Dillard</span>......You had too many ends to your candle and yet you kept them all lit.....<br />
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Thanks for being my friend..... Still remember you playing "Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed" on the Andy Griffith, Don Knott, Jim Neighbors TV Special....told you about it several times and you all ways grinned... And Kenny Baker talking about you following him on the banjo playing fiddle tunes....He said it time and time again...."that Dillard Boy could get it"......Again you grinned.<br />
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I told you time and time again...I love you man.....tonight I miss you Man......and I always will.<br />
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Rest Easy Doug Dillard<br />
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I love you<br />
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Doug Hutchens<br />
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Soon those who are interested can come back here soon and hear an interview I did with Doug in 1990.....It was a pleasure then and I consider it an honor to pass it along....... Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-2923215948539751392012-04-08T13:28:00.002-04:002012-04-18T11:13:31.044-04:00Happy Birthday Mom and Aunt LouEaster has always been a special time in our family and this one is no different.<br /><br />Yesterday afternoon Uncle Eustaces' family did a birthday supper for Mom (Lillian Hutchens) and Aunt Lou (Lou Hutchens) They are sisters. Mom's birthday was friday and she was 88 and Aunt Lou's will be 90 on Monday .<br />Many neighbors and family members were able to attend....It was a great afternoon of fellowship, friends and food.Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-74841879104194784782012-03-29T07:18:00.005-04:002012-03-29T09:06:49.531-04:00Earl Scruggs InterviewThis morning I awoke for the first time in my life to a world with out an Earl Scruggs. I will try to assemble some words later, but I tried to give Earl "my flowers while he was living" and will allow you if you choose, to remember him today in his own words.<br />Here is a link to an interview I did with Earl on Halloween night 1989 in his home in Madison Tennessee.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/music.asp?id=14870&view=music">http://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/music.asp?id=14870&view=music</a><br /><br /><br />Scroll down the page and you will see: The Doug Hutchens and Earl Scruggs Interview Track 01 -- 15 where he talked about a variety of things and I played music before and after each segment. Somehow track 15 is so appropriate today.....<br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">I don't think you have to be a member to listen, but if you do its free and I think you will find it worthwhile.</span></em>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-14033414888040506462012-03-28T21:30:00.002-04:002012-03-29T07:17:51.524-04:00Earl Scruggs January 6, 1924 - March 28, 2012...Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-44830982606839081842012-03-28T14:35:00.003-04:002021-10-28T08:44:32.844-04:00October 28th, 1989<div align="center">October 28th 1989...
Bill’s words from July 27th 1971 gave me the best of both worlds. </div>
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<div align="center">The night of his 50th Anniversary on the Opry and the whole TV segment was devoted to honoring him on The Opry portion on the Nashville Network.
Billy Rose was playing bass but wanted the job that Vic Jordan was leaving with Jim and Jesse. Billy had talked to Jesse earlier in the week and thought he had the job. So he was going to turn his notice into Bill that night.
Tater and Blake took care of much of the band hiring etc at that time like Kenny Baker had done in the past and they ask Billy not to say anything to Bill until after the TV portion (Bill’s health was fragile at that time) of the show, knowing that it might upset Bill.
I had gone down to the backstage of the Opry that night and as I came through the back door I ran into Tater he asked "Are you still interested in working with us again?" He had heard Bill and I talking a few times about me returning....and he wanted someone in the band that could drive the bus. I said sure. He told me that Billy was going to turn in his notice to Bill after the TV portion and that if I wanted the job it would make things much easier because Bill would not get as upset in loosing a band member.
I walked around the corner and ran into Blake. He said "Do you know what's going on" I told him I had just talked to Tater.
So I was going back and be a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. I was thrilled. </div>
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<p align="center"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Hal Durham and Grant Turner presenting Bill with a Special Mandolin that the Grand Ole Opry had comissioned for him. It had a carving of his head on the peghead.
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The TV portion came off well and about the time they took their instruments in the dressing room Jimmy Campbell's wife at that time, Andrea came through the back door in a rush asking where Billy was. We looked around and he and Bill were both gone. Someone said I think he's gone to turn in his notice. She said we’ve got to catch him. Her husband Jimmy was playing fiddle with Jim & Jesse and had heard them talking as they drove up the interstate. Jim had hired Raymond McClain the day before Jesse had hired Billy with out Jesse knowing it. Jimmy knowing what Billy's plans were had called back to let him know what was happening, because if he turned in his notice Bill might not have him back.
The long and the short, she caught Billy and I became probably the only guy to get the job and loose the job while never playing a single note. </p>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-33378853849681681942012-03-27T15:09:00.005-04:002012-03-28T17:19:47.086-04:00Planning the first Blue Grass Boy Reunion<div align="center"><br />During the fall of 1999 James Monroe, Bill's son called and asked if I would organize a Blue Grass Boy Reunion for the Memorial Day Weekend for 2000. He wanted to start a Blue Grass Festival in Rosine Kentucky where Bill was born. I was honored, James went on to say that he knew that his Dad put a lot of trust in me and I could do it in a way that Bill would have wanted it done.<br /><br />I first sent out invitations to the many individuals that I had kept in touch with since the late 70's when I started searching for all the men who had worked with the Blue Grass Boys. Over the years about 175 individuals worked for Bill Monroe on a regular basis playing music. David Deese was the first to call, then Guy Stevenson....they kept calling and dropping letters and emails. Over the next several months I got response after response…(professional musicians aren't quick to commit to a weekend of "no pay") They play music as their livelihood so making a living had to come first. This was to be a reunion of those who could and wanted to come.<br />Since I had arranged some birthday celebrations for Bill starting in 1982...I had seen how much fun Bill had arranging some last minute things for Kenny Bakers Birthday in June of that year(<a href="http://doughutchens.blogspot.com/2012/02/kenny-bakers-birthday-june-26th-1981.html">http://doughutchens.blogspot.com/2012/02/kenny-bakers-birthday-june-26th-1981.html</a>) …I decided we need to do something special for Bills birthday. So I started in early July <em><span style="font-size:85%;">(for the next several years I put the information in the mail over the first weekend of July for Bill's Birthday Celebration)</span></em> and we were able to pull it off as a surprise in Louisville in September just a day or two before Bill’s birthday.<br /><br />I had many ideas going at the same time trying to come up with a worthy celebration for The Blue Grass Boys......<br />I did a lot of behind the scenes work; contacting the offices of Governor Patton of Kentucky, Governor Jim Hunt of North Carolina and Governor<br />Don Sundquist of Tennessee. I also contacted former President Jimmy Carter who Bill had played the White House during his term in office.<br /><br />I started on a special cancellation for the Post Office in Rosine...<br /><br />As I was working I kept thinking; How can we make this an event that Bill would be so proud of...<em>there was no budget</em> so kept digging.... finally I got an idea and contacted Willard Gayheart who is one of the greates pencil artist I've ever seen and asked if we could work it out to do a special "Commemorative Print" for the occasion.......... Willard was a big Bill Monroe fan and had known of the Birthday Celebrations I'd put together for Bill and was very willing....It was decided that he would draw it, and could sell some copies to pay for his time and I'd take care of the printing cost and I would have some to give the guys who took the time and effort to join us in Rosine. <span style="font-size:85%;"><em>I had hopes of selling enought to take care of the printing cost to cover my investement</em>.<br /><br /></span>But what kind of illustration would be best…..<br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">(Fall Back in time to 1982)</span></em> During the first Birthday Celebration I arranged for Bill in Louisville, Kentucky in 1982, I had hired a professional photographer, Jim Silliman, to go and capture the proceedings on film. I had no idea of why I was doing it, but it just seemed to the right thing to do. Jim shot several rolls of both black and white and slide film...<em><span style="font-size:85%;">(looking back I wish he had shot 10 times more than he did, but hindsight is usually 20/20). </span></em>But I had this one special photo of Bill on stage that stood out ...I thought back to Arnold Banker's Shinnhopple New York festival a couple of years before. John Hartford and I had become friends and I was traveling at the time with the "Lost and Found". John came by the bus one afternoon and asked if I was on board, to which Dempsey said I think he's in the back....John came on in and I got up out of the bunk and went to the lounge area and met him....He said that he had found some things while spending some time around Rosine that I might like to see.....They were photo's of Uncle Pen, Bill Uncle who he lived with after his parents died, and the person he had learned to play music with....These were photo's that I had never seen except for one which Bill had shown me. That photo Bill had carried it around in his wallet for so many years it was difficult to see any details.... I asked John if there was a possibility I could get copies of the photos....John, in only the way he could, just grinned and said "I knew you would appreciate them....these copies are yours"... <span style="color:#3333ff;"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">(John Hartford my friend I sure miss you)<br /></span></em><br /></span><br />So...we had the main photo of Bill and in what we called the "dream world" we put Uncle Pen....now the photo's; one had Uncle Pen sitting but he had a hat and its shadow was over his face...one of the others he didn't have a hat on...In one he had his dog with him, another his crutch that he had to use in his later years after being thrown by a mule...<br /><br /><br />I took all these elements and told the story........Willard took his pencil and did his magic....He created a drawing of a photo that didn't exist...I decided we would title the print after the tune Uncle Pen and it was named Blue Grass Boy Print 2000 "Late in the evening..."<br /><br />Late in the evening about sundown<br />High on a hill and above the town<br />Uncle Pen played the fiddle and how it would ring<br />You could hear it talk, you could hear it sing.<br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhee_KTMU3vuuSPIMHvgEUYtFdchYet6PUZID6-Nl4Xyv4G3Y4MqYu7VVdMDSKBjSDtOviCSKgiJoquKUX59HXy2uI419cFkIQgy10fy4rWDpzgWD6yZtcTjItEol6Eg1IuIPX3oznusKw/s1600/1sized.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 317px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722909731098345794" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhee_KTMU3vuuSPIMHvgEUYtFdchYet6PUZID6-Nl4Xyv4G3Y4MqYu7VVdMDSKBjSDtOviCSKgiJoquKUX59HXy2uI419cFkIQgy10fy4rWDpzgWD6yZtcTjItEol6Eg1IuIPX3oznusKw/s400/1sized.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">This is the limited edition print "Late in the evening..."... </span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">a few copies are still available at dmhutchens@aol.com....email for details<br /><br /><br /><strong><strong><span style="font-size:100%;">By the time we got to Rosine in late May the electricity was in the air.....<br />possibly too much ...as it rained all day every day for 4 days.. The Festival was a disaster.......The crowd was sparce, but those attended witnessed history.<br />There is a little Music Barn in the center of village of Rosine and the folks there took us under their wing..<br />They were gracious to let us hang out in the barn... It was kind of our unofficial meeting place, we ate our meals there, stayed out of the rain and even did some of our "Reunion" there. </span></strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-size:100%;">Our Reunion consisted of two or three hours each day of telling stories of things that happened on the road…many were very funny. </span></strong></strong></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br />Soon everyone was saying that someone should "write this stuff down"..<em><span style="font-size:85%;">(I had a friend Rob Marshall with me who taped everything). </span></em>It took some time but the modest publication Howdy Folks, Howdy appeared in 2003...</span></strong></strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXOL700P8tRg6lX3n707DnhkpRTF_ISLNJgm3rcE9YW38mhkC91U0urkfNkTwElO36qDTcnorVWh71p6E-WySh5CK12I6H64lNbCBK4AocFizxigvT49J_RY9RSjix482VjVlLI9WlywQ/s1600/638-1.jpg"><span style="font-size:100%;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 308px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5724732984118768450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXOL700P8tRg6lX3n707DnhkpRTF_ISLNJgm3rcE9YW38mhkC91U0urkfNkTwElO36qDTcnorVWh71p6E-WySh5CK12I6H64lNbCBK4AocFizxigvT49J_RY9RSjix482VjVlLI9WlywQ/s400/638-1.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> The cover: Howdy Folks, Howdy.....</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><br /><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">Available from:</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">Janet Davis Music </span><a href="http://www.bluegrasscenter.com/howdy.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.bluegrasscenter.com/howdy.html</span></a> </p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">and Elderly Instrument </span><a href="http://elderly.com/books/items/638-1.htm"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://elderly.com/books/items/638-1.htm</span></a></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">...or from me at </span><a href="mailto:DMHutchens@aol.com"><span style="font-size:85%;">DMHutchens@aol.com</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /></span>Everyone really enjoyed the gathering and looked forward to doing it again next Memorial Day Weekend (2001)<br /><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-84626779000556827082012-03-22T19:36:00.014-04:002012-03-28T10:42:46.776-04:00The First Blue Grass Boy Reunion<div>Our First Blue Grass Boy Reunion.<br />Memorial Day Weekend 2000<br />A success…..Damp! but a success. It rained hard all day long each day…<br />I was asked in October of 1999 to put together a Blue Grass Boy Reunion and I was able to contact 89 of the 110 living former band members .<br /><br />Participants were Gordon Terry (1950) Johnny Vipperman (1951) Noah Crase (1954) Carlos Brock (1954). Eddie Adcock (1957) Tater Tate (1958 and 1984) Frank Buchanan (1960) Lonnie Hoppers (1962) David Deese (1962) Gary Thurman (1962) Doug Green (1967) RC Harris (1970) Dan Jones (1971) Guy Stevenson (1973) Jim Moratto (1973), Dwight Dillman (1974) Wayne Lewis (1977) Larry Beasley (1977) Art Stamper (1984) Wayne Jerrolds (1989) Jimmy Campbell (1988) Ernie Sykes (1996) and James Monroe (1963). Sonny Osborne (1952 and Dana Cupp (1991)were on the grounds but the rains were heavy and didn't make it up to the Barn. Some great stories were shared of the time they spent working with Bill Monroe.<br /><br />Stories ranged from Gordon telling about the first time on stage and not knowing that when Bill nodded at him on stage it meant for him to take a break to Lonnie and Frank's dog stories.<br /><br />The little Jamboree Barn in Rosine was a lifesaver as 3 of our 4 sessions accompanied the sound of the rain on the tin roof. Very fitting.<br />The little Barn was very reminiscent of the Old Brown County Barn that stood in Bean Blossom for years, not near as large but we felt right at home.<br /><br />Blue Grass Boy 2000 "Late in the evening...." A limited edition print was unveiled which featured Bill in a familiar pose with his faithful F5 from a day prior to Gibson’s repair to the peg head, to his left and faded into time and distance Uncle Pen appears.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKqvYqM2L1_OFE5sssMJ8orRSpEB3YCFNN-hs3pduQNaZkzURCUa0Hq7242OmaX5lZ9l4dcDDgv-2Z-Y_pi_QTj-qq_H4LsvLPMQuNK3dtsdZVNiawOs6xB4WkUaVA9Dfw1Wt5atSjplI/s1600/1sized.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 317px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5724958289886414818" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKqvYqM2L1_OFE5sssMJ8orRSpEB3YCFNN-hs3pduQNaZkzURCUa0Hq7242OmaX5lZ9l4dcDDgv-2Z-Y_pi_QTj-qq_H4LsvLPMQuNK3dtsdZVNiawOs6xB4WkUaVA9Dfw1Wt5atSjplI/s400/1sized.jpg" /></a><br /><br />There were 1050 prints signed and numbered by the artist, Willard Gayheart available for sale to the public. Each Blue Grass Boy received a copy of the print signed and numbered with BGB followed by the number that corresponding to the belt buckle number from the birthday project from 1987. .<br />It was a great two days, and just to be able to spend time with these guys, they were there when musical history was being made.<br /><br />Having being made aware of the gathering the following sent welcomes, greetings and messages. Governor Sundquist of Tennessee commended the Blue Grass Boys on their "Determination and dedication....." Governor Hunt of North Carolina send a greetings saying "Many of the Blue Grass Boys are among North Carolina's treasures". And Former President Jimmy Carter said in his message "I recall with fondness Bill's first performance at the White House...."<br /><br />Rosine Kentucky is one of those special places, I can recall raising my head from the final prayer during the September 12 1996 services and looking to a sky that was just a little more blue and the trees just a little more green than I'd ever noticed before, those were things that meant so much to Bill, he spoke of it around the globe…. now he enjoys them daily as he rest in Ohio County Kentucky.</div>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-82827181462112722252012-03-19T20:39:00.014-04:002012-03-20T07:54:01.721-04:00Li'l Abner<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3k1a4F5JsVcdS0Ozr0yqAA4FS2V1V3p1yqDB-c6la7jkcDjUWnWpr_GC9yPIIWHQnr2wwF_PI1_MBwDlve_VYSPzLAsB4-0AOiYPe9S4L9gMlCQ4-6PRWqyHdOs0UjL4B8iFY_budR6I/s1600/5170-1371992412007.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 275px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721935474699865730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3k1a4F5JsVcdS0Ozr0yqAA4FS2V1V3p1yqDB-c6la7jkcDjUWnWpr_GC9yPIIWHQnr2wwF_PI1_MBwDlve_VYSPzLAsB4-0AOiYPe9S4L9gMlCQ4-6PRWqyHdOs0UjL4B8iFY_budR6I/s400/5170-1371992412007.jpg" /></a> In the summer of 1974 while working with the Wilderness Road Outdoor Drama as an actor/musican, it was decided that we would do an Dark Night presentation of "Lil Abner".<br />Dark Night meaning that we would do it on night we were usually off. The Drama ran from Monday thru Saturday so Dark Nights were Sunday nights.<br />I’d never done any acting, I think we had a grade school play back at Hardin Reynolds Memorial School where I walked out on stage to sell apples in "the depression scene" and I did something in our Senior play which we wrote ourselves<span style="font-size:85%;"><em>(We were the last graduating class at Hardin Reynolds and they had stopped senior plays a few years before but we had Miss DeHaven for english and talked her into sponsoring us for the last senior play...wasn't bad, but I would hardly call that acting.)</em></span> I told them kiddingly during the Wilderness Road audition that I had been a dandelion in a third grade play but I was hired for my musical ability rather than my acting skills….<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtogGgf9j4KdYEbXWydIeU2_hmCiQAU8s5yMRSaUxITnMsVEBefScFRlb1tQsIAEIH30fqoV7X70ag5FtPi-t5Cnao6ZPdU-2fkZ4LKs7p0zNSh1HgZQBLYdd7T2rrvN8FABVCfwOUFyE/s1600/La6.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 290px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721777348482191730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtogGgf9j4KdYEbXWydIeU2_hmCiQAU8s5yMRSaUxITnMsVEBefScFRlb1tQsIAEIH30fqoV7X70ag5FtPi-t5Cnao6ZPdU-2fkZ4LKs7p0zNSh1HgZQBLYdd7T2rrvN8FABVCfwOUFyE/s400/La6.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Mayor Daniel D. Dogmeat (Tony Estes) and Marryin' Sam (Doug Hutchens)</span><br /><br />The leading actors weren’t really interested in doing another production so this gave the other Wilderness Road cast members the opportunity to be featured in more challenging roles.<br />I didn’t know much about Li’l Abner other that I had seen the comic strip. I began hearing rumblings that I would be a perfect “Marryin' Sam” and not knowing who he was I said sure…I‘ll do it...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG2msx-uUVUhExGCGqwz5F22IDGuNkeuQQSsbAq2IRAbfmBfdxtg0sOUhEJZUGYc1wBVmZ0Qg0-SAafFw_LfIJbmiFJ6cGDXLDpDOXD8Snaa5xZz0PFa8Z3n2vDrKkEtoBNVwmIhf5f2E/s1600/La3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 288px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721774800949676754" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG2msx-uUVUhExGCGqwz5F22IDGuNkeuQQSsbAq2IRAbfmBfdxtg0sOUhEJZUGYc1wBVmZ0Qg0-SAafFw_LfIJbmiFJ6cGDXLDpDOXD8Snaa5xZz0PFa8Z3n2vDrKkEtoBNVwmIhf5f2E/s400/La3.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Mayor Dogmeat (Tony Estes) and Marryin' Sam (Doug Hutchens)</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">being watched by those dispicable Scraggs (Lem, Luke and Romeo) and as<br />Evil-Eye Fleegle comes into town.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center">I had no idea that he was a central character…3rd only to Li’l Abner and Daisy Mae with the number of lines in the show…Marryin’ Sam was the preacher who Pappy and Pansy Yokum were counting on to get Li’l Abner and Daisy Mae married. He sang, he danced and many more lines that I‘d ever seen….and I was supposed to do all this??? I wasn't into theater and had no idea that Li’l Abner was a musical either…the comic strip didn't have any in it.....and also we did all the music live on stage…<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXsOsWtIs1kK8537lnWEDgblXsyPFnWN3zflB494TR60CVcEsSv1E2g3O7zwscdBJbzl3a05poDAkSWouK9_u23uFVPGB1jj56yjFowOkmf662HF4NDTPmOSwxYQaQ0aId46-EDroqlsU/s1600/La8.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 284px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721775277558846738" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXsOsWtIs1kK8537lnWEDgblXsyPFnWN3zflB494TR60CVcEsSv1E2g3O7zwscdBJbzl3a05poDAkSWouK9_u23uFVPGB1jj56yjFowOkmf662HF4NDTPmOSwxYQaQ0aId46-EDroqlsU/s400/La8.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">A Cornpone Meeting </span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br /><br />It featured a Sadie Hawkins Race and a Jubilation T. Cornpone Celebration and hopefully a wedding for Li’l Abner and Daisy Mae…<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeJ6WGjqJNbdwO-bHhI3awPvCo76a1X3oHqGdICB5aUpOi7dGbM-kYEhDWoPWo1NkyW7k9kS6jsKMaba04eADJZ9mln-O-iMN0hc_ZHkJgMsuYYI7uJJDtCmadvlLGdW_DLwnBPAEQNpk/s1600/La%2525204.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 292px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721775487755763234" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeJ6WGjqJNbdwO-bHhI3awPvCo76a1X3oHqGdICB5aUpOi7dGbM-kYEhDWoPWo1NkyW7k9kS6jsKMaba04eADJZ9mln-O-iMN0hc_ZHkJgMsuYYI7uJJDtCmadvlLGdW_DLwnBPAEQNpk/s400/La%2525204.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Pappy Yokum (John Forbes) Marryin' Sam (Doug Hutchens) with Mammy Yokum, Daisy Mae and </span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">that World Famous Wrestler "Earthquake McGoon"<br /></span>We would read lines in the afternoon before Wilderness Road and then do various scenes after the show each night. It was so hot during that part of the summer we didn’t do any practices during the daylight hours.<br />We practiced for two or three weeks and when show time arrived it was tense…we had never gone through the whole production from beginning to end before opening night. Nerves were drawn tight.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">A typical day in Dogpatch</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcAbvodgWFQOHEK3f-NapSwCGogsPcTUSsJ31C8bTjAQM-w6YRJnvixnLthi5RKHZ9tCc58u6KDFrGmBYvIvayCOUxapjAVl8vK6clbmOpv7si_M1aUoVuUeQAxBbjYjTxeN0JVCgWRM/s1600/La11.jpg"><span style="font-size:78%;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 292px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721775746812960418" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcAbvodgWFQOHEK3f-NapSwCGogsPcTUSsJ31C8bTjAQM-w6YRJnvixnLthi5RKHZ9tCc58u6KDFrGmBYvIvayCOUxapjAVl8vK6clbmOpv7si_M1aUoVuUeQAxBbjYjTxeN0JVCgWRM/s400/La11.jpg" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_fXAgMwkktzc96K3t6PmhmIKmivT_3bC_eixzVP2I4FBEVglOkHDMnf-vKpe4fQp1ic54f-1FVyGahp9X2dSwYk86GB4lkTQ456EBkVO3qhl8Dfbfr5DKhjG4QADL1e_P3-_1NtRs-oo/s1600/LA.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 289px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721776675831573346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_fXAgMwkktzc96K3t6PmhmIKmivT_3bC_eixzVP2I4FBEVglOkHDMnf-vKpe4fQp1ic54f-1FVyGahp9X2dSwYk86GB4lkTQ456EBkVO3qhl8Dfbfr5DKhjG4QADL1e_P3-_1NtRs-oo/s400/LA.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">The Matromonial Stomp<br /><br /></span>After the opening number the tension eased and as the show started rolling it seemed to flow like water. There were slip up, I made my share of them, but the cast, crew and the audience all enjoyed the production. It was a big success. We only did the show twice that summer, but I think we came away with a new sense of adventure and accomplishment.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvnzt-ptp57r_lU6p3ti4lfi4p_FQFdGKDx_UV2iNhVuyoerNlHppt2W1wuQKbPibaz4moVnGfI49K7DD4Zfc1yiwxCYLjuCft979S5mhj7xfdkRKgn_xzPpKa-UGaa2-TpnXm9u_ppAE/s1600/La2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 290px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721776939840550658" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvnzt-ptp57r_lU6p3ti4lfi4p_FQFdGKDx_UV2iNhVuyoerNlHppt2W1wuQKbPibaz4moVnGfI49K7DD4Zfc1yiwxCYLjuCft979S5mhj7xfdkRKgn_xzPpKa-UGaa2-TpnXm9u_ppAE/s400/La2.jpg" /></a>Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae didn't get married but everyone had a good time in front of the statue of that beloved Jubilation T. Cornpone </div></div>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-13807821690820099332012-03-18T17:26:00.014-04:002012-03-28T13:59:08.259-04:00Working with Kenny Baker and Josh Graves<div align="center"><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiirEeVXI3d9dph3I1IMLVkfLPc_YTjzizW13fWBr68Pt444UrBQIHEbmOE9dXQPNJ3uI9tbLHMf0XMstKbiITok2nefx-wFhl4jzv1eeRaHygwjWu_qVzJ7BpfVu5NBDWdRdWHe0E-3k0/s1600/File0009.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 284px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721566077004154546" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiirEeVXI3d9dph3I1IMLVkfLPc_YTjzizW13fWBr68Pt444UrBQIHEbmOE9dXQPNJ3uI9tbLHMf0XMstKbiITok2nefx-wFhl4jzv1eeRaHygwjWu_qVzJ7BpfVu5NBDWdRdWHe0E-3k0/s400/File0009.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> Josh Graves, Doug Hutchens, Marsall Hall, Cecil Hall, Kenny Baker</span></div><br /><div align="center"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Skyline NC. 1985<br /></span>In the fall of 1984 while talking to Cecil Hall who I had played with off and on for 30 years....we decided that I could play banjo on some shows in the 1985 season. I still lived in Knott County Kentucky but all my weekends were free and during the summer I could take time off when ever I needed too.<br />The first date was to be at Old High School Roxboro NC in December of 84.<br /><br />Along in November, I was talking to Cecil one night and he asked if I knew of a fiddle player we could get....He had been booking shows and using Uncle Josh Graves as a "Featured Artist" during the past couple of years.<br />I said well "Kenny Baker has left Bill (during October of 84)to which Cecil said "He wouldn't play with us would he? I said if he isn't booked somewhere else I'm sure he will if you pay him. I told him that he had been working some with Bob Black and his guys in Iowa, but didn't know how steady that work was, then I told him of the album that Josh and Kenny did sometime back on the Puritan label featuring Kenny on the guitar and of course Josh playing dobro. Somewhat hesitantly he said call him and see what you can work out.<br />I called Kenny and he said "Why I recond I could do a few dates with you guys...."<br /><br />Fast forward ------December 1984....Roxboro North Carolina school Cecil Hall and the Dominion Blue Grass Boys Featuring Kenny Baker and Josh Graves....We did the school on a Foggy Friday night and the the Iroquise Club in Roanoke Va on Saturday.<br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0lrgikUQ8v_9yhkYjCE8cqicc2udS1hWoJluHPJR9DFkfzQvQu58tRsvGx9k-68IgvKUbjvkXVAbnJvoKyv3f5NRqYA5g0cGx76HzsfkgdA1NIMqMnpafrBhROVYQ0fpFUCdBlUDSv5A/s1600/jake.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 287px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725008165369480114" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0lrgikUQ8v_9yhkYjCE8cqicc2udS1hWoJluHPJR9DFkfzQvQu58tRsvGx9k-68IgvKUbjvkXVAbnJvoKyv3f5NRqYA5g0cGx76HzsfkgdA1NIMqMnpafrBhROVYQ0fpFUCdBlUDSv5A/s400/jake.jpg" /> <br /><p align="center"></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Kenny Baker, Josh Graves, Cecil Hall, Billy Hutchens, Jake Tullock, Doug Hutchens</span></p><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">For a few special dates "Cousin Jake" Tullock joined us...from the days of "Uncle Josh and Cousin Jake" from the Flatt and Scruggs era.<br /></span><br />Over the next year and a half we worked many dates around the country under the same billing...a few include The Sullivan's Homeplace St.Stevens. Al, Wiggins Ms, Ralph Stanley's Whitesburg Ky, Galax, Va, The Kitchens's Summerville W.Va. Wayside Park Stuart Va. Spruce Pine NC, Lilly Mae's Lorane Ohio, Bill Grant's Hugo Ok, Elizabethon Tn, The Carter Fold Macy Springs Va, Bass Mountain in Burlington NC, Myrtle Beach for Norman Adams...........<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihTzn47Nxi5Jqw23x2C6JmRu0jBTFeDQQ5QZuj79WdDpMzKn_dp2tsL-Xgs8XIuJLvA24OSI0QaW9K_tcMglVVZqJigIJ8SS8NupEkmHdxAUsG4ZxSyvcaMlbmYpIrBCBXxs8V0IapIkA/s1600/Fairview+2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 295px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5724241114158628082" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihTzn47Nxi5Jqw23x2C6JmRu0jBTFeDQQ5QZuj79WdDpMzKn_dp2tsL-Xgs8XIuJLvA24OSI0QaW9K_tcMglVVZqJigIJ8SS8NupEkmHdxAUsG4ZxSyvcaMlbmYpIrBCBXxs8V0IapIkA/s400/Fairview+2.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">Galax Virginia, Fairview Ruritan Building Emma Smith joins us for a tune<br /><br /></span><br />At Summersville in 86 we found that Josh had already booked the festival for the 87 season. He had taken the innitative for he and Kenny to book show's themselves and then hire musicians from the area when ever possible, much like Mac Wiseman had done for years. This gave them a larger slice of the pie. In the coming months Kenny called me a few times times to work shows in Kentucky and Ohio since I still lived in Kentucky at that point.</p>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-65536929898780191942012-03-12T10:07:00.003-04:002012-03-23T20:32:29.707-04:00Three years ago this morning.<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eFP8OGrSIwP6kO9CS8etNidthGMP46EpKPPIQ-sMnOsJztnu0jlPuXpDaeUxuJZDJT4SoDkvaMp6x8X-8yVhBW1cdgTAwwjMfxIwTru_VaXaHqFq_2oONkDF-aCcvuZezpgGyJD8qQI/s1600/Dad.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 264px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723042973205115490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eFP8OGrSIwP6kO9CS8etNidthGMP46EpKPPIQ-sMnOsJztnu0jlPuXpDaeUxuJZDJT4SoDkvaMp6x8X-8yVhBW1cdgTAwwjMfxIwTru_VaXaHqFq_2oONkDF-aCcvuZezpgGyJD8qQI/s400/Dad.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">James Aubrey Hutchens<br /></span><br /><br /><div align="center">Three years ago this morning my Father, James Aubrey Hutchens passed away.<br /><br />We miss him greatly.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4W6M2Io86T6-W7883pRYmY32hCEEAAmaB-mMQDunmkOR7BktF35qe8LUQGMrw7zylwxD0j8j8hQX5sU_LRuBEZsZ9_5TnbfbAIhyphenhyphenr22QtHQAM9SGSBPVxGXVoFH2wg9X-yRHZ6VTtGT0/s1600/Dad+and+Cristen.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 285px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723042886037423010" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4W6M2Io86T6-W7883pRYmY32hCEEAAmaB-mMQDunmkOR7BktF35qe8LUQGMrw7zylwxD0j8j8hQX5sU_LRuBEZsZ9_5TnbfbAIhyphenhyphenr22QtHQAM9SGSBPVxGXVoFH2wg9X-yRHZ6VTtGT0/s400/Dad+and+Cristen.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">James Aubrey Hutchens and Cristen Hamm<br /></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93zitCDw8HZs206Y8lyj37kcyth2eiPoE6bJ4j79yMDnUUhpNzHlUnrANcnZAh1GjoaTzGUFK_guYyLUm3VZ4_cr1Nw83MimoVrVpXcfmkYKMzggPu-pUzAtHPb8VD4yoqRkEEEDqKG4/s1600/Brikk%252C+Mom%252C+Dad%252C+Gage.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 271px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723042591337247714" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93zitCDw8HZs206Y8lyj37kcyth2eiPoE6bJ4j79yMDnUUhpNzHlUnrANcnZAh1GjoaTzGUFK_guYyLUm3VZ4_cr1Nw83MimoVrVpXcfmkYKMzggPu-pUzAtHPb8VD4yoqRkEEEDqKG4/s400/Brikk%252C+Mom%252C+Dad%252C+Gage.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Brikk Bennett, Lillian Hutchens, Aubrey Hutchens, Gage Bennett<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOEiQZfkWX1dTuw7DsN0Mpnf52iWmTyrk026SOBUzGe_UFgBCmR8c6XX4MiIOj3vAxRQHYt2I72wGFX8s_9-Rgk9WXutI96DKsSEF7g3xgBfQXoamBUu_Z1X331Cl9t6b97aL_jW1a7N4/s1600/Mom%252C+Dad+and+the+Grand+Kids.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723042499889587266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOEiQZfkWX1dTuw7DsN0Mpnf52iWmTyrk026SOBUzGe_UFgBCmR8c6XX4MiIOj3vAxRQHYt2I72wGFX8s_9-Rgk9WXutI96DKsSEF7g3xgBfQXoamBUu_Z1X331Cl9t6b97aL_jW1a7N4/s400/Mom%252C+Dad+and+the+Grand+Kids.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Lillian Hutchens, Gage Bennett, Aubrey Hutchens, Cristen Hamm, Brikk Bennett<br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoYgNADy3gUuK-UlK1J8Na2IvT-rw8nLd-BsHpLhm7_605jnKG2bcaz7U5UcMQhZwBvbDP5e4Ucp7cnmK-H3ivWuM2Li7fYJRyVnJaBUCysLy7DzVPkjVqIi3Ha4uvbdOcQOeSODeDBb8/s1600/Dad+with+Grand+kids.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 268px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723042401691887106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoYgNADy3gUuK-UlK1J8Na2IvT-rw8nLd-BsHpLhm7_605jnKG2bcaz7U5UcMQhZwBvbDP5e4Ucp7cnmK-H3ivWuM2Li7fYJRyVnJaBUCysLy7DzVPkjVqIi3Ha4uvbdOcQOeSODeDBb8/s400/Dad+with+Grand+kids.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Cristen Hamm, Brikk Bennett, Mason Michael Bennett, Aubrey Hutchens, Gage Bennett<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /></div>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-24392218966400016262012-03-07T09:53:00.002-05:002012-03-07T19:36:19.641-05:00Getting Mail in Goodlettsville 1971Getting mail at Bakers Box<br /><br />After getting back from Cosby Tennessee on July 5th. Dan parked the bus and he and Bill went on their way.<br />The next morning I decided that I was going to walk down to Goodlettsville to the Post Office. I started mailing cards along with a letter or two in Pennsylvania and Ohio the week before, I was like a tourist sending cards, from it seemed like every truck stop. Kenny had noticed the cards I was sending and told me that if I needed a place to get my mail in "town", I could use his post office box number and that he would tell the people at the post office that if I came in to go ahead and give me mail from his box. I had put his post office box number on all my cards and now I hoped that I might have a response or two.<br />When we initially came in from Columbus that first day I was with the group, Kenny had pointed it out the post office but I really had no idea of how far it was from the bus.<br /><br />So I started walking up Dickerson Road….I walked, walked and walked.. I finally got to Forest Lawn Cemetery and I still couldn‘t see what I thought that looked like the little shopping center where the post office was so I turned back. It was a hot day and as I approached the bus I started to reach into my pocket for my key and I couldn’t find it. I thought it might have gotten sharp end down in the corner like it had the week before. I must have looked pretty strange walking down Dickerson Road with my hands digging deep in my pockets and counting through the change over and over for a key that wasn’t there.<br /><br />When I got back to the bus my heart was racing….first I thought I might be able to force something in the crack of the door and move the plunger over to open it, but the deadbolt would not budge….I was about to panic….then another idea….see if one of the side window would move. The window to the left of the door would not budge….then I went over to the driver’s side and low and behold I found that the window would slide a little. I had to look around and find a sturdy stick, then was able to move the sliding window enough to climb up on the tire and pull myself into the window…..I was relieved. I climbed in and just sat there the longest time thinking how lucky I was. I immediately found a small piece of twine and tied a small piece of cardboard to the key.<br />When I went to the truck stop the next time I found a key ring with a half dollar size leather fob on it and I never misplaced my key again although I found my self checking my pocket each time I went out the door after that and never locked my self out again.Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-56718872466849571622012-02-29T07:31:00.015-05:002012-03-28T13:01:18.269-04:00Kenny Bakers Birthday June 26th, 1981<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1LabamP-OSWzI8rMW6gRYr2JSlMeZp9eFUy4KbpkbEkPjLOOuRz4Vu4pekHHbBUrXy_EVTz7DjgRamItmHkjPtAvv9ToZSfSw6e2UHPKPJxJFgKMUVsCCTWUmfL3yq5zbFk8KJDxyATs/s1600/ba1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714535604130306994" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1LabamP-OSWzI8rMW6gRYr2JSlMeZp9eFUy4KbpkbEkPjLOOuRz4Vu4pekHHbBUrXy_EVTz7DjgRamItmHkjPtAvv9ToZSfSw6e2UHPKPJxJFgKMUVsCCTWUmfL3yq5zbFk8KJDxyATs/s400/ba1.jpg" /></a> Paul Mullins helped to promote a Blue Grass Festival in southern Kentucky called Jellico Creek in 1982. Bill had such a good time putting together some things for Kenny's birthday....this is where I got the idea for our first Bill Monroe Birthday Celebration where the Blue Grass Boy's presented him with the leather covered case with "Bill Monroe" "The Father of Blue Grass Music" carved in the leather covering.<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlBw6obRD9q5cuubvoNluU8WA7P2AwkZqiCj4myxN3ztt5kOuRwBXZ7Y0mvAsw6U1KmhtvPKRCYNKSeuh6tguTBX9Ua3TNpcqRpOA8TPXAgeMzjJgAwUtYiyGI81h5B_Bpeg63ZO5UZdk/s1600/ba3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714535544569903810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlBw6obRD9q5cuubvoNluU8WA7P2AwkZqiCj4myxN3ztt5kOuRwBXZ7Y0mvAsw6U1KmhtvPKRCYNKSeuh6tguTBX9Ua3TNpcqRpOA8TPXAgeMzjJgAwUtYiyGI81h5B_Bpeg63ZO5UZdk/s400/ba3.jpg" /></a><br />Bill announced on stage that "today is Kenny Baker's Birthday".<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz9qMVu8jvdMgKp7wAXCGviPcAdN3_GfSBHMjjnEctYifnA3ymJ3wz4oGNPmOXBVJ6grGfWMceTjfVc8_sfVzX_Rp9bosVTd65T5TRmYSfjzKomYykxy-inNJUYW1ZR4ZnJEwESn13Xic/s1600/ba11.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714535418551484210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz9qMVu8jvdMgKp7wAXCGviPcAdN3_GfSBHMjjnEctYifnA3ymJ3wz4oGNPmOXBVJ6grGfWMceTjfVc8_sfVzX_Rp9bosVTd65T5TRmYSfjzKomYykxy-inNJUYW1ZR4ZnJEwESn13Xic/s400/ba11.jpg" /></a> and gave Kenny a birthday card<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQb90Ns5q0dCbzQSRAe156C3lqWcQOAT2HyAlUPK-DUmWsLibG2umRvlGEqIff-oUG2_bOZcPfLglADaNxhqTgy1HFqNXe8C9dQuND6EPInZMJeBov1vbPK7PTfLu96YEULJ3BuXJ4DpM/s1600/ba8.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 269px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714535295219095330" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQb90Ns5q0dCbzQSRAe156C3lqWcQOAT2HyAlUPK-DUmWsLibG2umRvlGEqIff-oUG2_bOZcPfLglADaNxhqTgy1HFqNXe8C9dQuND6EPInZMJeBov1vbPK7PTfLu96YEULJ3BuXJ4DpM/s400/ba8.jpg" /></a> it also had a 50 dollar bill in it.<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSdeDPgOOkC4l8x_0KjjHXRh0ZNp4pQE69G9Z-V3aVsYWVIpmCFqAfJgx2WOTl9Mm5ZdXMyUmvLMrxtmfABxu8-ch9RACurrMfOK2M8ZXfw4neHCALaqRdLpbewYQoJqFVcBZhQcbElw/s1600/ba6.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 263px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714535169382474386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSdeDPgOOkC4l8x_0KjjHXRh0ZNp4pQE69G9Z-V3aVsYWVIpmCFqAfJgx2WOTl9Mm5ZdXMyUmvLMrxtmfABxu8-ch9RACurrMfOK2M8ZXfw4neHCALaqRdLpbewYQoJqFVcBZhQcbElw/s400/ba6.jpg" /></a> A lady from the audience wanted to give Kenny a hug....<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAO5_p_4Y6cN_q0KWQvZKpOhnO8J_5fT0ZYWaIdJU2u0b2V6EXkjoSZWCKQHQzzrR_KsQ5i6zlloF1MCzZjIzdGXvtTK2xhMX89tVrT7yxOYRd3tzO7cnw7AXjNv6SJKaFwNBkP6L1pF8/s1600/ba5.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 262px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714535066820765698" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAO5_p_4Y6cN_q0KWQvZKpOhnO8J_5fT0ZYWaIdJU2u0b2V6EXkjoSZWCKQHQzzrR_KsQ5i6zlloF1MCzZjIzdGXvtTK2xhMX89tVrT7yxOYRd3tzO7cnw7AXjNv6SJKaFwNBkP6L1pF8/s400/ba5.jpg" /></a> another gift that day<br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrVhNJNF1flyomO8uaeRSNAIyWAgVIC7Av127zX1xcgnC_lreNWcqPIPXx6QBsjDyQNi5D59TyLe2-iUUT94geiQC8fYJmjbdi7FHqLMKZYhA85AeGxBtgIcDDuLjuloiRg_p89DYOP0/s1600/ba7.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 269px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714534890937756050" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrVhNJNF1flyomO8uaeRSNAIyWAgVIC7Av127zX1xcgnC_lreNWcqPIPXx6QBsjDyQNi5D59TyLe2-iUUT94geiQC8fYJmjbdi7FHqLMKZYhA85AeGxBtgIcDDuLjuloiRg_p89DYOP0/s400/ba7.jpg" /></a> Bill had talked to Paul Mullins about any sort of old rough looking fiddle he could find...Paul said he had one that at one time had a hornets nest in it....they wrapped it in a plastic bag...<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfhUHA_4I2aFWCrKI5DzNaZtnyBHIhgHIRHZNitqIYCNDY8ZDtWsoH3DeVgTZUf4NYG6Mvt9cxmZPF-CwmR86YvcIoYZeBwNCk1XosKA-lI0iZAlUeSEB_SyxIN65KMYFfr2O9UqpJ97E/s1600/ba9.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 269px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714534790791826146" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfhUHA_4I2aFWCrKI5DzNaZtnyBHIhgHIRHZNitqIYCNDY8ZDtWsoH3DeVgTZUf4NYG6Mvt9cxmZPF-CwmR86YvcIoYZeBwNCk1XosKA-lI0iZAlUeSEB_SyxIN65KMYFfr2O9UqpJ97E/s400/ba9.jpg" /></a> Kenny plays along....<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgotAArusr6UrG_nKjSO6WpVkAvA8cmV-CABrjQiEwq3l3rnwp8-nBwyuydpfsO9Qcz0W1tCbo7Kz9ib88Cm54UxkXVv1fXExI0cZzkUHm7i2ZWVaQ2dpBHoKnmuvIRYve-cWy60HcZOgw/s1600/ba10.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 270px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714534711691028658" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgotAArusr6UrG_nKjSO6WpVkAvA8cmV-CABrjQiEwq3l3rnwp8-nBwyuydpfsO9Qcz0W1tCbo7Kz9ib88Cm54UxkXVv1fXExI0cZzkUHm7i2ZWVaQ2dpBHoKnmuvIRYve-cWy60HcZOgw/s400/ba10.jpg" /></a> "now this looks like one I lost years ago...."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-31790086646552494142012-02-29T07:29:00.005-05:002012-03-21T20:43:00.494-04:00Donna and Lewis Lamb<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmLX-KAX1uPoaSxioOrwK35Gj3a7oAmrBewVypKAXODoTtLsRwBsMDTY7503bzwGfZxTTyMJPrjb8gllPfJV2soIcGFGQb6Fk7L8GhTqbNvXOTro9Mij1rXo83-NVev9omL6YxMxqRnr0/s1600/with+Lewis+and+Donna.BMP"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 275px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714534089709389458" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmLX-KAX1uPoaSxioOrwK35Gj3a7oAmrBewVypKAXODoTtLsRwBsMDTY7503bzwGfZxTTyMJPrjb8gllPfJV2soIcGFGQb6Fk7L8GhTqbNvXOTro9Mij1rXo83-NVev9omL6YxMxqRnr0/s400/with+Lewis+and+Donna.BMP" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">January 25th, 1974 Berea College </span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Bun McLain, Earl Barnes behind Bun, Doug Hutchens, unidentified autoharp player, Lewis Lamb, Donna Lamb, unidentified bass player, Jim Gaskin, and Asa Martin<br /><br /></span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgygG327JVi2vxXMIu0pC4xp4blRXeJz8eGgzf5x9x4DXU6uCmYbqcCcVoP9E4sJHLmVZanNRzxV2Rs6ybHu2AF2029Z8QvNtsiXuY3anc4PCsxg7vtuviSio4kT7mHVMWUW9CR9CVv6mo/s1600/Lewis+again.BMP"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 281px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714533817534232834" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgygG327JVi2vxXMIu0pC4xp4blRXeJz8eGgzf5x9x4DXU6uCmYbqcCcVoP9E4sJHLmVZanNRzxV2Rs6ybHu2AF2029Z8QvNtsiXuY3anc4PCsxg7vtuviSio4kT7mHVMWUW9CR9CVv6mo/s400/Lewis+again.BMP" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Doug Hutchens, Bun McLain, Lewis Lamb and Donna Lamb (almost in photo)<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-2011850190385261132012-02-27T13:23:00.026-05:002012-03-04T17:47:45.096-05:00Man and His World. August 1971We worked in the geodesic dome that Buckminster Fuller designed for the 1967 Worlds Fair in Montreal for a week in 1971 for the Smithsonian.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicWdVTbrqYPInZTZtKOTSBeImyIrb5n_1k-EWSPgFB9eEg-C0lcW-5UXVfKsurzOYEs7FSOQvC6FxjtQLeY4eDTr7dNR-vVTwnFo2_c_SLLv1LCOF84cXKPyXWB25p-4xU13hpUxNGv-4/s1600/Picture1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 390px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713885543646536642" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicWdVTbrqYPInZTZtKOTSBeImyIrb5n_1k-EWSPgFB9eEg-C0lcW-5UXVfKsurzOYEs7FSOQvC6FxjtQLeY4eDTr7dNR-vVTwnFo2_c_SLLv1LCOF84cXKPyXWB25p-4xU13hpUxNGv-4/s400/Picture1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFhBGQqzo94AthalEfe9oWAMcZLQLQxtRI8kxDU6wRyJw73Imj6RXM0x8KffzvzFgv_e2lR10Yia62ecr-FFdPLq-Et7w1g8MzUjHvkukD5PggvbKb1-293TtmIR5e4jkN7AgRAot0xTU/s1600/Picture2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 390px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713885481589775554" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFhBGQqzo94AthalEfe9oWAMcZLQLQxtRI8kxDU6wRyJw73Imj6RXM0x8KffzvzFgv_e2lR10Yia62ecr-FFdPLq-Et7w1g8MzUjHvkukD5PggvbKb1-293TtmIR5e4jkN7AgRAot0xTU/s400/Picture2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center">This is a shot from the monorail while we were on the main stage. </div><br /><br /><br /><br />The following are some scenes of the different displays within the dome and photos from the monorail.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSlzSxunghVYMDUXHPEp7gpDOmPyV-faHMe-oydR7Oup0G4aNXVZkTj9PjPjooWMVUhKnsXOjmknuyxvIqQlal0RFUx_ZKnAd5Dy0lXBjJUeau0cYdi0MtIYeIa8ESo62HZdFuhS86rw8/s1600/Picture3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 383px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713885414838368194" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSlzSxunghVYMDUXHPEp7gpDOmPyV-faHMe-oydR7Oup0G4aNXVZkTj9PjPjooWMVUhKnsXOjmknuyxvIqQlal0RFUx_ZKnAd5Dy0lXBjJUeau0cYdi0MtIYeIa8ESo62HZdFuhS86rw8/s400/Picture3.jpg" /></a> There were all sorts of craftsmen and representatives of everyday life in the United States.<br />This was a dulcimer maker named McSpadden, from the Ozarks.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7q6kCWNBZha8hiqY_LasAgSlWS6pYtBtOu6m7xdeSj-xNTMg4R60_zqymMB4qV_aVJh-7VjxKR1HZpzv98N_UzvnZnkOE9iTUzKx8rSV4ByrMzNfkZd6N_Or91RPBInb6dpgSg-vX6G0/s1600/Picture4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 383px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713885294236715602" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7q6kCWNBZha8hiqY_LasAgSlWS6pYtBtOu6m7xdeSj-xNTMg4R60_zqymMB4qV_aVJh-7VjxKR1HZpzv98N_UzvnZnkOE9iTUzKx8rSV4ByrMzNfkZd6N_Or91RPBInb6dpgSg-vX6G0/s400/Picture4.jpg" /></a> The Yankee Whitler, D.J. Holmes, Plymouth, Maine.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUrEnmnR4Orsz68cNp_6RUnSsWDSZMf-JSZiFX8RkzkZAYQyRDqgb2bsQZb9lQHiB0b8EkMshQ2KLk-PIRQ8vhsoEzjGWZW2ZwhbHRKZwIoEw5wQy37UNMMiqmEDCGLzzw8A8UNRj2vbk/s1600/Picture5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 394px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713885229561924498" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUrEnmnR4Orsz68cNp_6RUnSsWDSZMf-JSZiFX8RkzkZAYQyRDqgb2bsQZb9lQHiB0b8EkMshQ2KLk-PIRQ8vhsoEzjGWZW2ZwhbHRKZwIoEw5wQy37UNMMiqmEDCGLzzw8A8UNRj2vbk/s400/Picture5.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center">Utah Phillips entertains in "The Barn."</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9941XbCtV_oDCescT5OP7ZhF4JsY7lL1ulMxTkTQb4ffK-JGxUgdlLq-xsPNpWQOey707soNpArANLr6vNb51sfqn1aD4zJ6Za837vSys1VcL-PFAO8Indn7nIRNFwwbfK4xMg_-UVuk/s1600/Picture6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 370px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713885154557765202" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9941XbCtV_oDCescT5OP7ZhF4JsY7lL1ulMxTkTQb4ffK-JGxUgdlLq-xsPNpWQOey707soNpArANLr6vNb51sfqn1aD4zJ6Za837vSys1VcL-PFAO8Indn7nIRNFwwbfK4xMg_-UVuk/s400/Picture6.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A fiddle maker.<br /></span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPYzqMwb3MlpX-L4LoO7D9ZWzRhZ708U6WUHFnnV7cqU4hBC99F7Xh24_D-Ds5Ivv7sOvtZrgYvnuvJ3VebfR6ANz7_MMf-BFg99D_Ep6ezf2mInZMqNZRwYNJ1EVMztoa8npybDbEep8/s1600/Picture7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 384px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713885076138316498" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPYzqMwb3MlpX-L4LoO7D9ZWzRhZ708U6WUHFnnV7cqU4hBC99F7Xh24_D-Ds5Ivv7sOvtZrgYvnuvJ3VebfR6ANz7_MMf-BFg99D_Ep6ezf2mInZMqNZRwYNJ1EVMztoa8npybDbEep8/s400/Picture7.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Some wildlife from the States.<br /></span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3oLg8rZuHpHAs4TJhhFu9mi2oMNZpbwM8eRGvtS5S7bfpKBhzWbLC6bLjjiaoY8za9-4dFbqlXYAoreyqWiRb39WWCxMZ-Izzd2tVeFmsOFhBlgCPTqkRS1A7AhXhna0O8ykhwjJGt5Q/s1600/Picture8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 387px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713884990053445874" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3oLg8rZuHpHAs4TJhhFu9mi2oMNZpbwM8eRGvtS5S7bfpKBhzWbLC6bLjjiaoY8za9-4dFbqlXYAoreyqWiRb39WWCxMZ-Izzd2tVeFmsOFhBlgCPTqkRS1A7AhXhna0O8ykhwjJGt5Q/s400/Picture8.jpg" /></a>Native American Village from New Mexico....these folks had some wonderful food.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcBbX-opiNn6Qzr_WltOIfLmvtXnVVwqyMKCLPUAXwVp9EBbMU1sIJfhPOY3MC2-dyCaVR62Fc9UEH59c93NJvaDWKi1wwp6M9h0WkcxAYP8x4jtwtwRdYI-ydTgr6lT3thLDsHOpMbuE/s1600/Picture9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 394px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713884861153746674" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcBbX-opiNn6Qzr_WltOIfLmvtXnVVwqyMKCLPUAXwVp9EBbMU1sIJfhPOY3MC2-dyCaVR62Fc9UEH59c93NJvaDWKi1wwp6M9h0WkcxAYP8x4jtwtwRdYI-ydTgr6lT3thLDsHOpMbuE/s400/Picture9.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Shots from the monorail.<br /></span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Q10O0S-EHbV_wAGt9Ua3MGWuXOAZn4DDhnSqVwoysstRj4TCJrCmx601rz3Oo5savqskmHwmVGKUXbQUur_jxP4cBNsES_Z09VmERR24XY0yN7mhwCspgVyfh0gxg8-6HcuzjWFNWl8/s1600/Picture10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 377px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713884740420332450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Q10O0S-EHbV_wAGt9Ua3MGWuXOAZn4DDhnSqVwoysstRj4TCJrCmx601rz3Oo5savqskmHwmVGKUXbQUur_jxP4cBNsES_Z09VmERR24XY0yN7mhwCspgVyfh0gxg8-6HcuzjWFNWl8/s400/Picture10.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEAAx4IH4-6M-q5OPe5rzzZQiHC5ebHpQrMNr_M7endP1Lai_kIrT5Ktm97Os5cn9-ewDhlu1Wx7hxokGciFluLaNi5hdbvtzxE7Kes0n7vOSj5SXmlIFp2x4au0HJTvt5yeMdDK7_Tz0/s1600/Picture11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 390px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713884648867668882" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEAAx4IH4-6M-q5OPe5rzzZQiHC5ebHpQrMNr_M7endP1Lai_kIrT5Ktm97Os5cn9-ewDhlu1Wx7hxokGciFluLaNi5hdbvtzxE7Kes0n7vOSj5SXmlIFp2x4au0HJTvt5yeMdDK7_Tz0/s400/Picture11.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi5ifBoQsJIhsDL_TerRroCBKjgCgBK6sq2Jirv5tnvlMRMZ7YP0NrbJ2LfGFOMpTZUGACODikVvQhwWvD6hqw7YSouIqvOXDdubU4zcs5trl1xX6tQldOhfQ4eTrTsT1qZw0BOiSQREk/s1600/Picture12.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 394px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713884566011888274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi5ifBoQsJIhsDL_TerRroCBKjgCgBK6sq2Jirv5tnvlMRMZ7YP0NrbJ2LfGFOMpTZUGACODikVvQhwWvD6hqw7YSouIqvOXDdubU4zcs5trl1xX6tQldOhfQ4eTrTsT1qZw0BOiSQREk/s400/Picture12.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAmRqN_XOZcH2EJ1tUdHiqBUy3W_mhpbqaX7bseFHlZVdG3CPhUsYp0WS7P0-q5Ai2ShrtZj3pGXS1A8v81z8RjpSeYo8yp4IMlS62l3QW7Z5xcI7WnXWMedHXIArTgyu3zn9CJpegTUk/s1600/Picture13.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 388px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713884488331487810" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAmRqN_XOZcH2EJ1tUdHiqBUy3W_mhpbqaX7bseFHlZVdG3CPhUsYp0WS7P0-q5Ai2ShrtZj3pGXS1A8v81z8RjpSeYo8yp4IMlS62l3QW7Z5xcI7WnXWMedHXIArTgyu3zn9CJpegTUk/s400/Picture13.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvoLG4cMiQJuHUjDBI2Vqwddi-eqRnyF9JrevAgNRiwAgv98pm0cSiJdn0fvyaLLOEo799b8lrN6iRYY0OoSGeNNgKEWOFGfQ87D6zocGVZ_B9qwjMTVHiVd0zx-QKxLnJm8BbvFICVpc/s1600/Picture14.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 389px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5713884397421964962" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvoLG4cMiQJuHUjDBI2Vqwddi-eqRnyF9JrevAgNRiwAgv98pm0cSiJdn0fvyaLLOEo799b8lrN6iRYY0OoSGeNNgKEWOFGfQ87D6zocGVZ_B9qwjMTVHiVd0zx-QKxLnJm8BbvFICVpc/s400/Picture14.jpg" /></a>Mr. Sam McGee of the Grand Ole Opry, who was to perform the week after we left, is shown with a Sunday audience.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-30367580483776355282012-02-25T06:49:00.004-05:002012-03-30T13:07:13.341-04:00Ellis Family 1904<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC-XE0knqEqG9JogpCm08h5c6gQZ2CIb5E7iZfERD0X1FNh_B9yiWt3JVsnSgYyn0hn3p1yMuv6WrsqKyzt4q-hdBbvhjBDONRTEvwN2CQ3Q7tjaWJIiLQ9B3ord9fkVN6uWkA0U99UsU/s1600/John%252520C_%252520%2526%252520Lettie%252520Rhodes%252520Family%2525202.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 281px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725737703640468994" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC-XE0knqEqG9JogpCm08h5c6gQZ2CIb5E7iZfERD0X1FNh_B9yiWt3JVsnSgYyn0hn3p1yMuv6WrsqKyzt4q-hdBbvhjBDONRTEvwN2CQ3Q7tjaWJIiLQ9B3ord9fkVN6uWkA0U99UsU/s400/John%252520C_%252520%2526%252520Lettie%252520Rhodes%252520Family%2525202.jpg" /></a><br />#1. Ellis Family 1904 --Hats on.<br />Left to Right:<br />Back row: Sallie Ellis Roark, Peria Ellis, Drury Ellis, Mary Hutchens Ellis,<br />Lettie Corns (Hill), John Abram Corns, Rufus Ellis.<br />Front Row: Nellie Roark (Hutchens), Rufus Roark, Nannie Roark (Handy), John<br />C. Ellis, Lettie Rhodes Ellis, Maggie Corns (Hill), Verda Corns (Biggs),<br />Pearlie Corns, Emma Ellis Corns (Holding) Noel Corns, Louisa Corns Ellis<br />(Holding)<br />Florence Ellis (Griffin).Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-52678584498405510822012-02-23T14:36:00.010-05:002012-03-22T19:11:06.243-04:00June 28th, 1971 I've Made It!!!<div align="center">I’ve made it…<br />After everyone drove away on the 28th of June, I just sat there. Thinking “I guess I’ve make it“! Here I am traveling with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys…..I was in Nashville, a place where I had never really thought a lot about other than Bill living there.<br />I don’t know what I expected but somehow it began to fit into my first experience at the Ryman..<br />Seeing the oiled floors, creaking steps, dark brownish amber of the worn varnish on those old church pews. Reminded me of so much of old country stores where I grew up. Truly a different reality from the perception that I had created in my mind from listening on Friday and Saturday nights.<br /><br />I remember sitting in the drivers seat looking out the front window of Bill Monroe’s Bus….My view was a gravel parking lot looking down a slight grade toward Dickerson Road with a little restaurant down (now known as the Country Western Bar and Grill<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?rlz=1T4SKPT_enUS418US422&q=1298+S+Dickerson+Rd+Goodlettsville,+TN+37072+36.2882+-86.7431&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wl">http://maps.google.com/maps?rlz=1T4SKPT_enUS418US422&q=1298+S+Dickerson+Rd+Goodlettsville,+TN+37072+36.2882+-86.7431&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wl</a>)</span><br />about a hundred yards to the left and a self service gasoline station an equal distance to my right.(1381 Dickerson Road Goodlettsville, now a Mapco station) I had made it….but what had I made it too.<br />By this time it was close to noon and I went down to the restaurant and had some lunch and started back to the bus…..My first thought was that I have left my keys on the bus…<em><span style="font-size:85%;">On the Saturday before Joe Stuart and Kenny Baker and I had gone into a hardware store in Lancaster Pennsylvania. Joe said to Kenny guess we need some new keys to the bus don’t we….he gave the person his key and had keys made for Dan Jones and myself.</span></em><br />I looked in both front pockets, pulled out all my change, I was thinking what am I going to do. I don’t have Bill’s or Joe’s phone numbers, Kenny was the only number I had in my wallet and I didn’t know how far he lived from there. Finally I found it, the sharp end had stuck deep into the corner of my front pocket. I went back up to the bus and decided I’d clean things up a little.<br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg3taCX5JF9KpHynrZ23hdATvgUM-c3J1MPDPAEjRcHM8OQpyJSTwqCC2dkbHEMTyztl28aZxXz0Q81jg1maExO1lBUsc9q6uLJUCuiG92jGnKDwttz76AXCH9wWdPGYehMGYY5Y_Z5kk/s1600/inside.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 286px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722860983678236978" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg3taCX5JF9KpHynrZ23hdATvgUM-c3J1MPDPAEjRcHM8OQpyJSTwqCC2dkbHEMTyztl28aZxXz0Q81jg1maExO1lBUsc9q6uLJUCuiG92jGnKDwttz76AXCH9wWdPGYehMGYY5Y_Z5kk/s400/inside.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"></a><span style="font-size:78%;">The way it looked from the back Photo courtesy Gregg Kennedy<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>This coach was PD 4501 Scenic Cruiser and had a similar door apparatus as most school buses, a handle that ratchets the door open then pulls it back closed. ( <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grniAhzJ13o&noredirect=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grniAhzJ13o&noredirect=1</a> )(not ours but you'll get the idea) A deadbolt style lockset had been drilled and mounted on the door so the coach could be secured when no one was aboard. There were three steps up to the level where the driver’s seat, then two small steps up to the seating area. There were three sets of the bus seats left in front and past that area there was again two steps up before you got into the bunk area. There were two bunks on each side with enough space for</em></span> <em><span style="font-size:85%;">everyone’s instruments to go under them sufficiently. This was followed by an area where everyone’s clothes were hung on the right side of the coach. On the left side was a small bathroom which had not worked in a long time and only used to keep the broom and odds and ends in.<br />In the back of the coach was Bills room. It was a modest area with a bed that’s head was on the left side of the coach and was across the width of the bus rather than long ways like the bunks up front, with some hanging space for his suit’s and a few drawers under the bed and a small night stand along with a window air conditioner. Ralph Lewis had actually installed a home air-conditioning unit in Bill’s area. Bills area was just that “his area” You just didn't see the band go into Bills room and was only there twice myself. Once when he told me to go back and look in the bottom drawer to get the money box for the gate at the festival at Ashland Kentucky and the 2nd time when he ask me if I would go back and sleep in his room with the money box on Saturday night at Ashland.<br /></span></em><br />There was a little trash can under the handle that opened the door.<br />I picked up what stuff there was in the seats, emptied the trash can and took the piece of carpet used as a rug outside then got the broom and started trying to sweep the carpet. The carpet under the little rug was so full of dust that I worked and worked finally getting a good amount of pure dirt that had been tracked in from all parts of the country and from the looks of it for a long time. After the broom I had to go back and wipe down the dash and window ledges because of the dust I’d kicked up in the air. This took the most of the afternoon.<br />This would become my routine each week when we returned. To have 6 people in a coach 96 inches wide and forty feet long for extended periods things can get close but everyone in the group made the effort to keep things looking presentable when we were on the road. From time to time either friends, fans or promoters would want to come on the coach and all the band took pride in keeping the coach clean. Each time we would stop for fuel someone would always grab the trash can and empty it. By the time we got back to “Town” things had usually began to pile up There would be a few newspapers and there were always festival fliers, schedules or programs of one sort or another.<br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jGfphbF6Yx7oDf0mOWnexW5HjQ3ChdMCX2Gw3McHmqh0rFwp-per-xovIXXnkq-6VEJCPpqlBCxP6U78Z4tHNlYDNNROhAbwOEjlFeaoDgSVa5Gku3uPl7FHo7AmGA16PeYOQnlSrv4/s1600/Coach.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 356px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722861173144760274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jGfphbF6Yx7oDf0mOWnexW5HjQ3ChdMCX2Gw3McHmqh0rFwp-per-xovIXXnkq-6VEJCPpqlBCxP6U78Z4tHNlYDNNROhAbwOEjlFeaoDgSVa5Gku3uPl7FHo7AmGA16PeYOQnlSrv4/s400/Coach.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Kenny Baker cuttin up with the fiddle. Photo courtesy Gregg Kennedy<br /></span><br /><br />Then Wednesday about noon Kenny Baker came over and picked me up and we headed to Jenkins. After Kenny and I got to Cosby we took our clothes on the bus and Joe and Bill were sitting there and started telling Kenny how clean the bus was when they left Nashville, kidding and thanking me for the cleaning I’d done.<br /></p>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-51678692726639554712012-02-17T14:06:00.027-05:002012-04-18T14:15:35.719-04:00Dance at Virginia Carolina Ruritan Building<div align="center">In the early 1960s, probably about 1962 or so, they started a round and square dance at the Virginia-Carolina Ruritan building just north of Spencer, Virginia. Marshall Hall led the band and played guitar. Gervace Pendleton played fiddle, Arthur “Uncle Arch” Hall played the banjo, and Lloyd Hodge played the electric guitar. Occasionally, Marshall's brother Robert Hall would join in on guitar and sing a few songs from time to time.<br /><br />My father, Aubrey Hutchens, had never called dances before, but he had been to dances during his early years, and he began calling the square dances. I was just learning to play banjo and I used to sit and watch Arthur Hall week after week. Christmas of 1963, I got my first banjo, a “Beltone” that Dad got from Harold Cummins, who he had worked with at the Carnation Milk plant in Stuart.<br /><br />Don Reno & Red Smiley were on TV each morning at WDBJ-TV, and Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs were on Winston-Salem's WSJS on Saturday night and the same show would be on WDBJ-TV in Roanoke on the following Monday night. In talking with Earl Scruggs in the late 1980s, he said they would "bicycle" the shows. This was in the days before UPS, when the fastest shipping method was by bus. They would send out the video tapes from Nashville and the tapes would go from town to town by bus. A station would go to the bus station, get the video, show it, then take it back to the bus station and ship it on to the next place, where it would be seen the next night, finally making it back into Nashville a week later.<br /><br />Marshall Hall’s brother Cecil was playing a round and square dance at the skating rink in Stuart during this time. After a few years, for some reason Gervace quit coming to the Virginia-Carolina dance and joined Cecil at the skating rink, at which time Arthur Hall began playing fiddle at the Virginia-Carolina dance. At first, Dean Shelton, who had been learning to play the banjo, began picking with the Virginia-Carolina band. After a while, Arthur, too, began playing at the skating rink, and Marshall moved from the guitar to the fiddle for the square dances.<br /><br />About this time, Doug and Larry Cobbler and I were just learning to play. They had a guitar and a mandolin and I had a banjo. Our parents, Richard and Mildred Cobbler and Aubrey and Lillian Hutchens, were at the dance each week and, before long, they began getting together to play Rook every week or so. Doug and Larry and I would go upstairs at our house or in the basement when we went down to the Cobblers'.<br /><br />Before long, we were joining in from time to time at the dance. This was our first introduction to playing music. Soon, Doug, Larry, and myself starting playing more around the area, mainly at country stores and the like.<br /><br />WHEO radio had opened in October of 1959 in Stuart, Virginia, and like most radio stations in rural areas, had some live music on it, especially on Saturdays. I’m not sure how many groups worked it, but I think Jim Eanes, with Roy Russell, worked it and I know that Gervace Pendleton and Arthur Hall had played with various bands on the station. In those days, it was live rather than pre-recorded. Besides, it was a great way to advertise the dance they would be playing that night.<br /><br />During this era, there were many "round and square" dances around the area. There was one at Stella, Virginia, the American Legion in Martinsville, as well as the skating rink and the Virginia- Carolina Ruritan building. By the late 1960s, the Virginia-Carolina dance had about played out, but about this time, I had gotten to where I could play some on the banjo.<br /><br />The first time I ever played out anywhere, except the dances, was the fiddlers' convention at the Collinsville Recreation Center. Camden Joyce played banjo with Cecil Hall and a band he had put together on Friday night, but "Cam" couldn’t play on Saturday night. Cecil asked if I could play with them. Cam was a great banjo player and I’ll never forget him playing the Friday night. They did “Just Because” and he really sounded good. On Saturday night, we only played one tune. I can’t remember the fiddler's name, but he played “Bear Creek Hop.” We didn’t place in the top 5 groups.<br /><br />Then, by the next year, Doug and Larry Cobbler and I had met Henry and Louis Mabe. We heard about them and went over to see them on a Wednesday night, and then went to Boone's Mill, Virginia, to a fiddlers' convention and came in second that Saturday night. Henry was a good fiddler and Louis was a good mandolin player. Later that fall at Collinsville, we didn’t place as a band, but Henry won second on the fiddle.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><u><span style="color:#0000ff;"></span></u><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYFkoLU5mDQOQ_fQkL9KrVDzZCS54hbgm7X82O61MInwss6sEM8hM7GVylx8LtlSTplXK8lyG2sHIrmtdDDzTAdIv73yv6BGKRdYsqOzvKnkdz9ot_dWB54DqSKx5kvxNCO0C8CzQZY0/s1600/SR.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 383px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720643556314563090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYFkoLU5mDQOQ_fQkL9KrVDzZCS54hbgm7X82O61MInwss6sEM8hM7GVylx8LtlSTplXK8lyG2sHIrmtdDDzTAdIv73yv6BGKRdYsqOzvKnkdz9ot_dWB54DqSKx5kvxNCO0C8CzQZY0/s400/SR.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> <em>Henry Mabe, Doug Cobbler, Larry Cobbler and Doug Hutchens</em></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Sandy Ridge School.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:78%;">The same stage where Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs played each year </span></em></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:78%;">from 1948 until 1968....and were supposed to play there on March 7th 1969.</span></em><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>(the week after they split up)</em> </span></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_9uKtUuU3lGaka8aHH2CGdjzvVBsmqW_YegsSZJt0doJD5XwVe7Sy7Ouj46xkzaQBXbJn8pxxZCq-qRUYEE7PFeXa2W5TPtVzKCBxX2bPeZQtQsbioiLfhKCoKcPxArCU4pqZsgUaEU/s1600/Collinsville+Hender+Saul.BMP"><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 390px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710187808202100306" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR_9uKtUuU3lGaka8aHH2CGdjzvVBsmqW_YegsSZJt0doJD5XwVe7Sy7Ouj46xkzaQBXbJn8pxxZCq-qRUYEE7PFeXa2W5TPtVzKCBxX2bPeZQtQsbioiLfhKCoKcPxArCU4pqZsgUaEU/s400/Collinsville+Hender+Saul.BMP" /></div></a><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">With Hender Saul, who promoted the fiddlers convention with the Collinsville Recreation folks.</div></span><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpFkU2nhWUuL97Dxlgc7bKwruXJZ0lSwWstHMpXugJlgkZ2KrOmqXEbNMdVpilk2FCQKME68towKcw9jxr-dLQgRYyyKVLmZ7rbr6xYUyZ49M_z2R8UMEyTDPGFv7C0fZrkzeGxnZ_JOk/s1600/Collinsville+1969.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 378px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710187707901064274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpFkU2nhWUuL97Dxlgc7bKwruXJZ0lSwWstHMpXugJlgkZ2KrOmqXEbNMdVpilk2FCQKME68towKcw9jxr-dLQgRYyyKVLmZ7rbr6xYUyZ49M_z2R8UMEyTDPGFv7C0fZrkzeGxnZ_JOk/s400/Collinsville+1969.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Cecil Hall and I, in the banjo competition at Collinsville, Va.<br /></span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDas2kQmiO7k97u96Q05jDCLwV8hBV0nFfyHULw5QeZPoY6yMvlCt-fvhMeQCsc6azTRaPzeEKoMwrhtl8CRidQ_FklYzPj3c8HBHYStZfnY1Oqe4pW4boT-H6V3_pnVZw53rJlDOGErU/s1600/Collinsville+69.BMP"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 395px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710187567574648866" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDas2kQmiO7k97u96Q05jDCLwV8hBV0nFfyHULw5QeZPoY6yMvlCt-fvhMeQCsc6azTRaPzeEKoMwrhtl8CRidQ_FklYzPj3c8HBHYStZfnY1Oqe4pW4boT-H6V3_pnVZw53rJlDOGErU/s400/Collinsville+69.BMP" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Cecil Hall, Louis Mabe, Henry Mabe, and Doug Hutchens....we were really into in it.....it looks like anyway.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVb_fheVw-OJk1O0TZjO0YtgQvNw_cXlZkrxNnHkDAPJdAZ_lJLSag5h_pIL6TtFRifbPYY-VUZWg3pBN-iqEN4lwPMwfpzSIuhUA5-pU98QF5xO6jhgj5WfQU6Cs_ZGpYOfVrvX6MpY/s1600/Collinsville+69+..BMP"><span style="font-size:78%;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 387px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710187398532336050" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMVb_fheVw-OJk1O0TZjO0YtgQvNw_cXlZkrxNnHkDAPJdAZ_lJLSag5h_pIL6TtFRifbPYY-VUZWg3pBN-iqEN4lwPMwfpzSIuhUA5-pU98QF5xO6jhgj5WfQU6Cs_ZGpYOfVrvX6MpY/s400/Collinsville+69+..BMP" /></span></a> <span style="font-size:78%;">Louis Mabe, Doug Hutchens, Doug Cobbler in Collinsville<br /></span><br /><br />Meanwhile, during the year somehow I had worked my way into doing the radio show with Marshall and Cecil Hall’s Mayo River Boys. By the time I started playing with them, we didn't do too much live on the air, but we taped them, usually two at a time, every couple of weeks. At first, it was Arthur, Marshall, and Cecil and myself. Later Mike Hazlewood, a good mandolin player and singer, started doing the show with us. After that, we began recording the shows in Cecil's basement, and Doug Cobbler would either play guitar or bass with us.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRN8A6i-V0pvGWesIKHxRQ7KVm81Wftfp8DYKLk_aC5x8TgizXWrwJZt_GlwcoqC3E2-YFHSbwwRC-oNKm55WDWBIDINsuDn53u1VGgdSWKck9LzyRAdcj6nLP0xX_J8iaKxn2qLRBqAw/s1600/WHEO+3.BMP"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 387px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710185886525088066" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRN8A6i-V0pvGWesIKHxRQ7KVm81Wftfp8DYKLk_aC5x8TgizXWrwJZt_GlwcoqC3E2-YFHSbwwRC-oNKm55WDWBIDINsuDn53u1VGgdSWKck9LzyRAdcj6nLP0xX_J8iaKxn2qLRBqAw/s400/WHEO+3.BMP" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />Marshall Hall, Mike Hazlewood, Cecil Hall, and Doug Hutchens at WHEO, 1972.<br /></span><br />Over the next several years, we entered various competitions around the area while doing the radio show. In 1972, we went to Berryville, Virginia, to a competition at Watermelon Park that Carlton Haney promoted. Marion Hall, Mike, and I did the singing and we got second place. That fall, we also worked Camp Springs for Carlton Haney, since we had done well at Berryville.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmt6Ht7MypZ5xDFCiLvnzFQ-6PAPksz1ydBjyT8CDKBKO8dniEQ0iw9C5EvZrxgHnPhxA5szN85sZwEuR_F1mlFEfe9QwtxldkOuLoZwYyklw0eIb_uPJYYZq241fXUKfSWTc_uCL1IqM/s1600/Camp+Springs+73.BMP"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 383px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710187157304297570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmt6Ht7MypZ5xDFCiLvnzFQ-6PAPksz1ydBjyT8CDKBKO8dniEQ0iw9C5EvZrxgHnPhxA5szN85sZwEuR_F1mlFEfe9QwtxldkOuLoZwYyklw0eIb_uPJYYZq241fXUKfSWTc_uCL1IqM/s400/Camp+Springs+73.BMP" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Cecil Hall, Doug Hutchens, Mike Hazelwood, Marion Hall at Camp Springs, NC, 1972.<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl334X_7YXOozl9h4HmG7G2wHga1dthXM3XdtnFKbhBoNHs15ap8ARccVATCA2OQwofolJ4y_weX3FyYGWPpq6A3xiDILwKOiD07MWYPyJ0-eb4tBgZam9ZNJm6IaJxqct_ou8Z2PHc7g/s1600/CP.jpg"><em><span style="font-size:78%;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 385px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720645233321299506" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl334X_7YXOozl9h4HmG7G2wHga1dthXM3XdtnFKbhBoNHs15ap8ARccVATCA2OQwofolJ4y_weX3FyYGWPpq6A3xiDILwKOiD07MWYPyJ0-eb4tBgZam9ZNJm6IaJxqct_ou8Z2PHc7g/s400/CP.jpg" /></span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:78%;"> Richard Joyce, Cecil Hall, Mike Hazelwood, Doug Hutchens, </span></em></div><br /><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Marion Hall, Doug Cobbler...</span></em></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size:78%;">Carlton Haney's Blue Grass Festival Camp Springs. North Carolina 1972</span></em></div><br /><br /><br /></span><br />I went to school in Berea, Kentucky, in the fall of 1970, but continued to record radio programs with the group when I would come home every few weeks.<br /><br />I had also started doing some radio at WMYN in Madison, Virginia, with Lee Kiser and Sidney Thornton in mid-1969. I continued that until about 1972, recording shows when I would come in from college.<br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Crossing the Cumberlands<br /><br /></strong></span>I remember one night about midnight, heading home from doing some recordings with Lee and Sidney. I was listening to the Mac Wiseman Record Shop show on WWVA in Wheeling. I had just turned at Sandy Ridge, North Carolina, and headed toward home.<br />It was a beautiful clear night with a big full moon. I could almost see Bull Mountain, 30 miles away in the distance…….. about that time there was a lull in the program for a moment, then this slow, deliberate banjo tune started on the radio….It was eerie sounding and I pulled over to the side of the road to listen to it. After the banjo came the fiddle…I was almost sure it was Kenny Baker playing fiddle as I had spent some time around him in the past couple of years…then the banjo again, then the mandolin….when it ended, again there was an eerie silence, for it seemed a long time before another tune started.<br /><br />I listened closely hoping they would tell what the record was, but they didn’t. It was nothing I had ever heard before…I thought it must be Bill Monroe, and the next week I sent 3 dollars to the Mac Wiseman Record Shop in Wheeling and asked them to send me the eerie banjo tune that was played on their show at about midnight the preceding Saturday night on WWVA. It was about two weeks and I got the record “Crossing the Cumberlands.” It had “I Haven’t Seen Mary in Years” on the other side. On clear, full moonlit nights, even these days when I’m driving, I’m reminded of that night. The recording was released on May 19, 1969, and this was the first time I had heard it. </p>Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-44512677545370938722012-02-17T08:19:00.004-05:002012-02-23T23:43:34.636-05:00My first guitar. On August 31st 1963.In 1962, we were still running the store, and Coca-Cola did a promotion with all 50 states imprinted under plastic inside the bottle caps. Since we ran a store, I was able to get the card filled pretty quickly and gave it back to the Coke driver. If you got all 50 states and put them on the board and sent it in to Martinsville, Virginia, they had drawings for different prizes. The top prize was a fifty-dollar gift certificate for records at the Music Bar in Martinsville.<br /><br />Sometime the next week, someone told me at school that they had heard on Martinsville radio that I had won. Several days later we went to Martinsville, to the Coca-Cola plant, and sure enough they gave me this little box with a gift certificate in it for fifty dollars worth of records. That didn’t do me much good, as I didn’t have a record player. I simply took the certificate and put it in a drawer.<br /><br />In the summer of 1963, I was trying to play an old guitar that my Uncles Bruce and John had pretty much discarded. The action on the neck was terrible. I would go through the old string boxes they had, find old strings they had taken off the good instruments, and I'd put them on the old guitar. I’d get in front of the mirror and pretend I was on stage somewhere.<br /><br />Sometime during that summer, we were in Martinsville for some reason and I wandered into the Music Bar and mentioned that I had this gift certificate. The lady who ran the place was really nice and said they had wondered why it hadn’t been turned in. Fifty dollars in 1962 was a fair amount of money. After I explained that I didn’t have a record player she said I could use it on anything in the store…<br /><br />Over the next few weeks, I saved the money I’d made in helping in tobacco, and on August 31st, we went to my Uncle Pete’s to prime tobacco (breaking two or three leaves from the stalk, getting them ready to be cured) and it started raining. We came back home and went to Martinsville. This time I took my gift certificate and purchased my first guitar -- a ZimGar. Never heard of that brand before or since. It was a big, pretty thing, but the action was high. Before long the neck started pulling loose and I took it back to the Music Bar. They gave me another one, and after a few months, the bridge came off. Again I took it back and got another one…I still have it today, but it isn’t any better than it was then.<br /><br />I got that guitar on a Saturday, and that night at the dance, I saw one of the local boys for the last time. He was a few years older than me. I remember Kenny Collins coming in and going down stairs. I went down to get a Coke and he was sitting on the counter. On Sunday night, Kenny, Dean Shelton, and J.C. Corn had a wreck, and Kenny and J.C. were killed.Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8402271756236610252.post-90658624965130519492012-02-17T08:17:00.007-05:002012-02-25T16:38:55.284-05:00Banjos, Banjos, BanjosI had seen the old "Country Song Round-Up" advertisements for Ode banjos -- Jamestown Star Route, Boulder Colorado -- they were classy looking banjos. Gibsons of that time had the square guitar-shaped peg heads, but the Odes were really good-looking.<br /><br />I ordered one of Ode's catalogs and parts list. You could buy everything from them. This was 1964 and I was 12. I didn’t have too much to spend, so buying was out of the question at that point.<br /><br />Earlier, in the fall of 1963, when we were selling tobacco, I had an idea. Tobacco farmers usually graded their tobacco in two or three grades and then had a bunch that they threw out called "trash." I asked mom and dad if I could have the trash. With their help, I saved and worked up the trash for sale. In order to have a few hundred pounds, I had to save it all season, until all the good tobacco was graded, and with the last sale, I sent my trash to the market. In those days tobacco farming was an art, unlike today, where they treat it like hay. It had be "tied" in "hands" and put on a basket for sale. I worked on the trash and got it ready for sale and, to my surprise, I got $65 dollars for it.<br /><br />A Bacon Belmont<br /><br />In 1964, I got my next good banjo -- a Bacon Belmont.<br />A neighbor (Robert Hall) had a Gibson RB-100 that he wanted $75 dollars for, but the neck had been broken, and when I wrote to Gibson, I got a letter back saying that they would install a new neck for $67.50...Heck, I didn’t even have the $75 dollars for the banjo. A short time after that, Clarence Hall told me he had a Gibson RB-150 that someone had brought to him to sell for $150 dollars...It was tobacco-chopping time in the late spring and we were working in the field. I asked dad if I could borrow a hundred and fifty dollars until I sold the trash that fall.....One of the most hurt looks came on his face when he paused and said, "I just don't have it." I felt so bad that I had even asked. I just wanted to roll time back and never ask it. I've always remembered that hurt look on his face. Both he and mom would always give us whatever they could, but the remembrance of that look on dad's face always stayed with me. During the summer before he passed in March of 2009, he and I were talking and I asked if he remembered that time I wanted to borrow a hundred and fifty dollars for a banjo. Well, he didn't remember and I was so glad that he didn't.<br />That fall, I again asked mom and dad if I could have the trash, and I tied it for sale.<br />I went with my uncle John Hutchens who took the tobacco to the warehouse in Martinsville, Virginia, on a Saturday. While he was at the warehouse, I went up to the Patrick Henry Mall to the Music Bar. They had moved out to the Mall from Main Street, where I had purchased my first guitar.<br /><br />They had a used Bacon Belmont banjo for $149.95. It was chrome and had pearloid on the resonator sides and had a hard-shell case with it. I had seen Larry Richardson playing a banjo similar to it on a TV show on Channel 8, High Point, North Carolina. I talked to the lady at the Music Bar and asked if they could do any better on the price. Finally she said she would take $129 dollars for it. I had my sights set on that banjo. I told them that I had some tobacco to sell on Monday and asked if they would hold it for me until then. I went back down to the warehouse and told uncle John. He went up with me to look at it, and after the tobacco sold on Monday, he was to go and buy it and bring it home.<br /><br />I couldn’t sleep Saturday night or Sunday night. All day Monday, all I could think about at school was that that banjo would be mine when I got home.<br /><br />When I got off the school bus, uncle John, mom, and dad were all sitting on the porch at the house. I bounced up the hill in anticipation, and when I walked in, uncle John said, "I’ve got some bad news." I had anticipated getting at least $130 or $140 dollars for the trash tobacco, but he said “It only brought 90 dollars and 38 cents," and he handed me the warehouse bill, showing me the tobacco sale amount.<br /><br />My spirits immediately fell. I tried not to look disappointed, but I’m sure they could tell. After a few minutes, uncle John said, “But I went up to there and told them that that your tobacco didn’t bring what you thought it would, and they let me have it for $90 dollars.” I was overjoyed.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcc1xK6n__HkgfsRlOyg8ASt-iNwzrZsqhyphenhyphenqsCbcgbv7F9yTsasgFCj__IDPYlaXqlsMsCQOa6kCGlkkaExMZvHRwOjkoBCqSCtOP-4YBpzSxZNHUvbwfO-am8ONM9lrCsNcoQ5zQvGdg/s1600/Bacon.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 392px; height: 400px; text-align: center; display: block;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5710093262941996210" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcc1xK6n__HkgfsRlOyg8ASt-iNwzrZsqhyphenhyphenqsCbcgbv7F9yTsasgFCj__IDPYlaXqlsMsCQOa6kCGlkkaExMZvHRwOjkoBCqSCtOP-4YBpzSxZNHUvbwfO-am8ONM9lrCsNcoQ5zQvGdg/s400/Bacon.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br />In the past few years, I started wondering: Did they actually let him have that banjo for $90 dollars or did he pay the additional? It would have been just like uncle John to have done it. He passed away a few years ago and I never asked him. I wish I had.Doug Hutchenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939143911766575832noreply@blogger.com1