Dec 24
Merry Christmas from all of us at BluegrassJournal.com
All of us here at BluegrassJournal.com would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas this season and a Happy New Year.
We would like to thank all of our readers for stopping by and keeping up with the site as well as passing it on to your bluegrass friends. We’re very excited about the prospects and ideas we’ve got in the works for 2008. We’re hoping to have a dedicated and extensive festival section online around February or March. After the festival section is online and working we will begin work on a “performance schedule” section to keep tabs on all your favorite bluegrass bands where-abouts
Through out the month of December we’ve been publishing “favorite Christmas memories” from some of the greats in the business who were extremely gracious and found some time to send us there stories. Below is a list of all those stories and links to read them.
Donna Hughes
“That Christmas Eve, my first ever without my Dad, and the most painful thing ever, I went over to my parents house, and sat in their hammock. My Mom & Dad were almost married 35 years. When my Daddy died, it was 20 days shy of their 35th wedding anniversary. Just two years before, Alison Krauss wished them a Happy Anniversary at a sold out crowd in Greensboro, NC (since she had recorded one of my songs,) and my Daddy was the proudest Dad in the world.”
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Herb Pederson
“I had just come back from a road trip with Flatt & The Foggy Mt. Boys, and I got a call from Dean Webb, asking if I’d like to join The Dillards, after an audition with them out in L.A.
I was looking for a way back to California, and this seemed a perfect way to pay for it. Vern & Ray & I were scheduled to play The Ash Grove in L.A. right around then, so it all worked out great.”
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Greg Cahill
“We left Chicago in our van to play several shows in OH and PA. We encountered a pretty intense snow storm as we drove through IN and had to pull off the road for a while due to no visibility. Once we finally got back onto the highway, the van began losing power and we nursed it into an off-highway repair shop in OH. The mechanic was very friendly and dropped everything to look at our vehicle when we told him we were a touring bluegrass band and desperately needed to keep pushing on so we could make our show in Bethlehem, PA that evening.”
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Tom T. Hall
“One Christmas eve when I was nine years old, I lived with my parents and my eight brothers and sisters in the hills of Kentucky. This would have been 1945.
It had snowed five or six inches that day and we lived seven miles from town. My brother Quinton, who worked the factories up north was to come home for the holidays and had said he was bringing me something special.”
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Miss Dixie Hall
“Another delightful surprise came to Fox Hollow a couple Christmases ago when I opened up a small package which contained a mock up of a c.d. The accompanying note said “To Miss Dixie, this is good for a c.d. We’ll record in our studio; you choose the songs and the pickers. You produce and I’ll do songs we have written together. Local and Pal will handle (canine) security. We will call the project TOM T. SINGS MISS DIXIE & TOM T. Merry Christmas! Love, T.”
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Steve Gulley
“My father, Don, and I were booked to play a Christmas party along with the rest of the Pinnacle Boys in Knoxville, Tenn., back in the ’80s.That sounds pretty harmless right? Wrong!
When we got there, we found out we would be performing on a hay wagon out in the middle of this guy’s farm in below-freezing weather. Yes - outside! It was freezing cold with a dusting of snow on the ground.”
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Bobby Osborne
“l would like to share a Christmas story that has meant more to me than any other story I could ever think of,” he said. “The song ‘Rocky Top’ was released on Christmas Day of 1967 on then-Decca Records (later MCA) by The Osborne Brothers.
l could never ask for a better Christmas present than ‘Rocky Top.”
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Darrin Vincent
“I remember as a child waking up early, before dawn, knowing that Santa had come. We’d tear open the gifts and leave paper strewn all over the living room. Then we would all get dressed and head over to my grandparents’ house to have more Christmas. I remember having breakfast there. My Grandma Helen (Thompson) could really cook, and I loved her gravy and bacon.”
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Jamie Dailey
“My dad and I would put up hundreds of lights all over the hillside and around the plank fence that went around our five acres of land. When it got dark we lit up the house and land, and you could see traffic literally stopping on the bridge across the lake as they looked at our lights. After that we went inside to help my mother put up decorations.”
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