Early Bluegrass
Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith was an American old-time fiddler born on April 10, 1898, and significantly impacted the music world. He discovered his passion for the fiddle early, influenced by fellow fiddlers Grady Stringer and Walter Warden, while being raised on a farm near Bold Springs, Tennessee. Let’s take a closer look at the life of […]
The Orange Blossom Special was a deluxe passenger train that inspired the tune by the same name. Ervin T. Rouse wrote and copyrighted the song in 1938, and Ervin and Gordon Rouse recorded it first in 1939. There has been a bit of controversy as to the original composer of the instrumental. Robert Russell […]
When discussing the most popular bluegrass songs, “Nine Pound Hammer” nearly always floats to the top. Let’s follow the scent and try to sniff out the origins of this famous tune. After the Civil War, when able-bodied men were scarce, former slaves and convicts were conscripted to build tunnels and lay track in constructing a […]
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