September is “Worldwide Bluegrass Music Month.”
For the beginning of football season, play “The Great Joe Bob” by The Country Gazette (on their “Hello Operator” album) or “Drop Kick Me Jesus” by Paul Craft (on his “Too Bad You’re No Good” CD).
For the start of school, play “Late For School” by Steve Martin (on his “The Crow” CD) or “The Little One Room Schoolhouse” by the Bressler Brothers (Prime Cuts, Vol. 53)
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Tom Ewing born, 1946
Roger Williams born, 1948
Gary Gordon born, 1953
Buddy Spurlock born, 1941 (died 9/21/2022)
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Labor Day
(For song suggestions, click here)
Bill Evans born, 1956
Buck “Uncle Josh” Graves first recording with Flatt and Scruggs, 1955
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Darren Nicholson born, 1983
Billy Hawks born, 1968
First day of the first multi-day bluegrass festival, 1965 (Carlton Haney’s Fincastle, VA festival)
Keith Case died, 2019
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Bill Monroe records “Blue Moon of Kentucky” for Decca, 1954
Harold “Shot” Jackson born, 1920 (died 1/24/1991)
Ed Dye born, 1936 (died 3/19/2009)
Randy Graham born, 1946
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Ron Thomasson born, 1944
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John Herald born, 1939 (died 7/18/2005)
Buzz Busby born, 1933 (died, 2003)
Roy Huskey, Jr. died, 1997
(Song Suggestion: Play “Song for Roy” on Sam Bush “Howlin’ at the Moon” album.)
President Wm. McKinley shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, 1901
(Song suggestion: Play “McKinley” by the Greenbriar Boys or “The White House Blues” by various artists
Vince Gill receives a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 2012
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Barry Poss born, 1944
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National Grandparents Day
(For song suggestions, click here.)
“Singing Brakeman” Jimmie Rodgers born, 1897 in Meridian, Mississippi (died 5/26/1933).
(Song suggestions: Play “The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home” by the Nashville Bluegrass Band, “Jimmie Rodgers Rode a Train” by Thomm Jutz or Del McCoury, “Jimmie Rodgers’ Last Blue Yodel” by Tasty Licks, or “Jimmie Rodgers Blues Medley” by Merle Haggard.)
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Bill Monroe died, 1996
(For song suggestions, click here.)
C.F. Martin III born, 1894 (died 6/15/1986)
Paul Adkins born, 1952
James King born, 1958 (died 5/19/2016)
Herschel Sizemore died, 2022
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Matthew Allred died, 2006
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Richard Bailey born, 1961
Dave Hardy born, 1955
Mark Hembree born, 1954
Terrorists strike America, 2001.
(Song suggestions: “United Flight 93” by Caleb Bailey; “Mama, Will You Call My Daddy” by Doug Bartlett; “911” by Lawrence Bishop, “When the Twin Towers Fell” by the New Roanoke Jug Band; “Smoke on the Water” by the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band; “Falling Man” by the Steeldrivers.)
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John McGann born, 1959
Wade Mainer died, 2011
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Bill Monroe born, 1911 (died 9/9/96)
(For song suggestions, click here.)
Willis Spears born, 1940 (died 9/17/2023)
Lou Reid born, 1954
Willis Spears born, 1940
Joe Stuart died, 1987
Wilma Lee Cooper died, 2011
Earl Scruggs was honored at Turner Field in Atlanta as part of a pre-game show for an Atlanta Braves home game featuring 239 banjo players playing “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” at the same time, a world record, 2006
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Bill Harrell born, 1934
Tim Stafford born, 1960
Rick Pardue born, 1952
Herb Trotman born, 1944
Lloyd Loar died, 1943
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Roy Acuff born, 1903 (died 11/23/92)
(Play “Old Roy and Brother Oz” by the Osborne Brothers “Class of “96” album.)
Stanley Bros. record “How Far to Little Rock”, 1959
John Bowman born, 1970
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The “original” bluegrass band (Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Chubby Wise and Howard Watts) recorded for the first time, 1946.
Barry Mitterhof born, 1952
Paul Henning (TV Producer who wrote “The Ballad of Jed Clampett”) born, 1911 (died 3/5/2005)
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Walden Dahl born, 1952
Kevin Williamson born, 1963
Willis Spears died, 2023
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Michael Cleveland born, 1980
Carl Jackson born, 1953
Bea Lilly died, 2005
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Carlton Haney born, 1928 (died 3/16/2011)
Kenny Smith born, 1967
Clyde Moody born, 1915 (died 4/7/1989)
Ervin T. Rouse born, 1917 (died 7/8/1981)
Kathy Kallick born, 1952
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Les Woodie born, 1931 (died 3/23/2018)
Charles Sawtelle born, 1946 (died 3/20/99)
Steve Gulley born, 1962 (died 8/18/2020)
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Ginger Boatwright born, 1944
Shawn Lane born, 1971
Daryl Mosley born, 1964
Rual Yarbrough died, 2010
Buddy Spurlock died, 2022
Mike Henderson died, 2023
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Autumn Begins
(For song suggestions, click here.)
Wiley Morris (of the Morris Brothers) died, 1990.
Pop Lewis born, 1905
Buddy Griffin born, 1948
Wiley Morris died, 1990
Jimmy Stoneman died, 2002
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Steve Scruggs died, 1992
Jack Dempsey lost to Gene Tunney in World Heavyweight fight, 1926
(play “Jack Dempsey’s Crown” by Jim Lauderdale, from his “Reason and Rhyme” album).
Jim & Jesse received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, 1997
Ken Burns’ “Civil War” documentary airs on PBS for the first time, featuring Jay Ungar’s “Ashoken Farewell,” 1990
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Kevin Church born, 1963
Flatt & Scruggs record “Ballad of Jed Clampett,” 1962
Paul Mullins born, 1936 (died 8/3/2008)
Larry Gillis born, 1962
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Steve Thomas born, 1962
Larry Sparks born, 1947
Charlie Leet born, 1944
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IBMA Awards Show in Raleigh, North Carolina
LeRoy Drumm born, 1936 (died 2010)
Lynn Anderson born, 1947
The Beverly Hillbillies makes its debut on the CBS-TV network, 1962
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Sierra Hull born, 1991
Josh Graves born, 1928 (Died 9/30/06)
(Song suggestion: Play “Uncle Josh the Dobro King” by Deeper Shade of Blue.)
Wreck of the Old 97 near Danville, VA, 1903
Charlie Monroe died, 1975
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Ronnie Reno born, 1947
Laurie Lewis born, 1950
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Dan Crary born, 1939
Doc Watson was presented with the National Medal for the Arts by President Bill Clinton, 1997
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Marty Stuart born, 1958
Carmella Ramsey born, 1972
Phil Rosenthal born, 1948
Josh Graves died, 2006
(Play “Pickin’ on Josh” by the Steep Canyon Rangers from their “Lovin’ Pretty Women” album.)
Stanley Brothers record “How Mountain Girls Can Love,” 1958
Jerry Scoggins (singer of the Beverly Hillbillies theme) born, 1911 (died 12/7/2004)
Now would be a good time to play “September’s End” from Northern Lights’ “Can’t Buy Your Way” album.