August 2023

How’s the Weather? Hot? Play “Hot Night in August” by Gary Ferguson  or “100 Degrees in the Shade” by Breaking Grass (First line in the song is “Down in Mississippi in the hot August sun …”)

1

First Carter Family recording, 1927
Mack Magaha born, 1929 (died 8/15/2003)
Paddy Moloney (The Chieftains) born, 1938 (died 10/11/2021)

Howdy Forrester died, 1987

2

Jeff White born, 1957
Wynn Osborne born, 1961
Mitch Jayne died, 2010

3

Randy Scruggs born, 1953 (died 4/17/2018)
Leonard Hollifield born, 1926 (died 3/3/2018)
Paul Mullins died, 2008

4

Benny Sims born, 1924
Scott Stoneman born, 1932 (died March 4, 1973)
Play “The Legend of Scott Stoneman” by Jack Tottle.
First Jimmie Rodgers recording session, 1927
Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White married, 1981
Ralph Lewis died, 2017

5

Mark O’Connor born, 1961
Vern Gosdin born, 1935 (died 4/28/2009)
Pee Wee Lambert born, 1924 (died 6/25/1965)
Jim Brock born, 1924 (died 10/16/2019)

Steve Dilling born, 1965
Frank Edmonsen born, 1953 (died 11/28/2003)
Allan Spinney born, 1965
Rick Spinney born, 1966

6

Herschel Sizemore born, 1935 (died 9/9/2022)
Tommy Sells born, 1956

7

Felice Bryant born, 1925 (died 4/22/2003)
Alison Brown born, 1962

8

Osborne Brothers join the Grand Ole Opry, 1964
Les Sandy born, 1928 (died 7/28/2022)

Zeke Morris died, 1999.

9

First Mercury recording session by the Stanley Brothers, 1953
Keith Case born, 1940 (died 9/3/2019)

Jerry Garcia died, 1995
Roger Sprung born, 1930 (died 7/22/2023)

10

Jimmy Martin born, 1927 (died 5/14/2005)
First “Will the Circle” album by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band began recording, 1971.

12

Ed Ferris born, 1934
Paul Craft born, 1938 (died 10/18/2014)
Dewey McPeak born, 1941

Mike Lantz born, 1957
Bobby Slone died, 2013
Thomas Edison made the very first voice recording, 1877. He recorded “Mary had a little lamb” on a tin foil cylinder of his own design.

13

Stanley Brothers record “Stone Walls and Steel Bars,” 1963
Dan Fogelberg born, 1951 (died 12/16/2007)
Hoot Hester born, 1951 (died 8/30/2016)

14

Alison Krauss & Union Station releases  “New Favorite” album on this date, 2001
Curt Gausman born, 1965

Jake Landers born, 1938 (died 2/13/2018)
Steve Martin born, 1945
Dick Freeland died, 2014
Dennis Caplinger died, 2021
John Henry “Doc” Holliday born, 1851 (died 11/8/1887)
(Play “John Henry Holliday” by Flashback)

15

Now would be a good time to play “Middle of August” by Kenny and Amanda Smith (Farm Boy Records)
Rose Maddox born, 1925 (died 4/15/1998)

Ben Eldridge born, 1938
Jerry Holt born, 1941
Aubrey Holt born, 1938 (died 10/5/2017)
Mike Seeger born, 1933
David Nance born, 1964
Mack Magaha died, 2003

16

Nathan Stanley born, 1992
Eric Weissberg born, 1939 (died 3/22/2020)

Kirk Brandenberger born, 1955
Vassar Clements died, 2005
Elvis Presley died, 1977
Play “Dixie” by the Gibson Brothers on their “Help My Brother” album. It’s about Elvis.

17

Wayne Raney born, 1921 (died 1/23/1993)

18

Bryan Bowers born, 1940
Audie Blaylock born, 1962 (died 1/12/2024)
Porter Church died, 1995
Charlie Waller died, 2004
Steve Gulley died, 2020
Play “In the Resurrection Morning” featuring Vince Gill–a tribute to Steve Gulley (Billy Blue Records)

19

Marc Pruett born, 1951
Kenny Ingram born, 1952 (died 7/26/2020)
Eddy Raven born, 1944

Beth Stevens born, 1968
Curly Ray Cline died, 1997
Play “Tribute to Curly Ray” by Larry Fuller on Prime Cuts #62.
Dale Vanderpool died, 2012
Billy Ray Latham died, 2018
Polly Lewis died, 2018

20

Ralph Stanley II born, 1978
Tom T. Hall died, 2021
Bob Everhart died, 2021

21

Tom Hanway born, 1961
Flatt and Scruggs make their last recordings for Columbia Records, 1969.
Sam McGee died, 1975
Billy Constable died, 2015
Dale Sledd died, 2016
Bill Emerson died, 2021

23

Barry Bales born, 1969
Charlie Cushman born, 1959

Carl Nelson born, 1935 (died 11/1/2006)
Daniel Routh born, 1976

24

Alan Bibey born, 1964
Patti Chapman born, 1955
Wayne Moore born, 1938
John Cowan born, 1953
Teresa Sells born, 1959
Randy Massengill born, 1972 (died 1/20/2022)
Pete Kuykendall died, 2017
Steve Arkin died, 2022

26

Matt Wallace born, 1984
Liz Meyer died, 2011

27

Carter Stanley born, 1925 (died 12/1/1966)
Song suggestions: “I Wish I Could Have Met Carter” by the Spinney Brothers, “Carter” by Ralph Stanley II, or “The Light in Carter Stanley’s Eyes by Peter Rowan, or “The Stanley Sound” by Cedar Hill.
J.D. Crowe born, 1937 (died 12/24/2021)

28

Jeannette Williams born, 1965

29

Roger Sprung born, 1930 (died  7/22/2023)
Shawn Camp born, 1966

Homer Earl “Pop” Dillard died, 1990

30

Alvin Breeden born, 1932 (died 2/26/2013)
Tom Riggs died, 2014
First fiddlers convention in America (Hanover County, Virginia), 1736

Jimmy Martin records “Stormy Waters”, 1962
Hoot Hester died, 2016

31

Keith McReynolds born, 1955 (died 2/2/2000)
Jim Gabeheart born, 1961
Fred E. Smith born, 1924 (died 6/4/2007)
Tom McKinney died, 2018