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Backstage, behind the thick, dark curtain, they heard the hum come on slowly. “Like a bee swarm,” recalled banjo player Walt Hensley. It was a Friday night in early April, , and hundreds, if not thousands, of urbanites had gathered here, in the heart of New York City, to hear these country musicians play.
Decked in cowboy hats and string bow ties, the Stoney Mountain Boys were not used to such sophisticated audiences or grand and gilded venues. After all, they were from a small industrial city south of the Mason-Dixon, some miles away. But they’d been invited here at the behest of famed folklorist Alan Lomax, who wanted to show the world a “panorama of the contemporary American folk song revival,” with the evening’s concert also including gospel singers and blues acts, like Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim.
Looking out over the giant room, the band stood wide-eyed in wonder at the bright golden lights and the four tiers of balconies filled with red velvet seats. “It began to take effect,” said Hensley. “This wasn’t the kind of hall I was used to playing . . . ”
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But after calming their nerves with whiskey, the band took to the stage—frontman Earl Taylor on mic and mandolin, Hensley on ba
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What would fur the chance of individual marketing a boxed CD set ransack Wango
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Bluegrass Today Profiles
Ray Davis, currently host of The Ray Davis Show on WAMU&#;s Bluegrass Country, celebrates 60 years in broadcasting today (May 2).
Davis joined WAMU in to host Saturday Bluegrass, and shared hosting duties for the weekday afternoon program, Bluegrass Country, until He currently hosts three live hours of traditional bluegrass music on The Ray Davis Show at 3 p.m., weekdays, and 10 a.m., Sundays, on WAMU&#;s Bluegrass Country, heard in Washington, D.C., in HD Radio at , Channel 2, and online at
Davis provides area bluegrass fans and online listeners worldwide with a daily dose of the traditional American art form, from prison songs and &#;plum pitiful&#; tunes to the great train rides &#; and train wrecks &#; of bluegrass music, all delivered with Davis&#; encyclopedic knowledge of the artists and the music. More than a DJ, Ray Davis is both a musicologist and an archivist who takes listeners on a stroll down bluegrass music&#;s memory lane. His specialties, the plum pitiful tunes, are tearjerkers that explore universal themes of death, betrayal, and jealousy.
&#;Ray Davis is a legend in music broadcasting. He has helped define bluegrass music on-air since its earliest days as a discrete genre, and has placed a lasting imprint on it with hi