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Take your picker: Student and teacher vying for bluegrass album Grammy
Chicago has gotten its bluegrass due with this year's Grammy nominations. Noam Pikelny and Greg Cahill — two players with strong local connections — are competing in the best bluegrass album category. Pikelny, a Skokie native currently based...
Tags: Music, Entertainment Events, Education, Old Town School of Folk Music, Clarence Thomas
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Southern California Close-up: Westside of Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on Sept. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. You're an outsider heading to the Westside of Los Angeles -- not the beach cities, but Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and the nearby well-heeled neighborhoods south of the Santa...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Cary Grant, University of California, Los Angeles, Arts, Rem Koolhaas
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Buck, Elton, Whitney, JB, Dylan among Grammy Hall inductees
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticThe Recording Academy has announced its annual list of works to be entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and they include recordings by Big Mama Thornton, Buck Owens, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor, Whitney Houston and 22 others. As explained in...Tags: Whitney Houston, Elton John, Fiona Apple, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan
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Kitty Wells, the 'undisputed queen of country music,' dies at 92
Kitty Wells, the long-reigning “Queen of Country Music” and the first woman to reach No. 1 on the country chart with her attitude-changing hit “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” died Monday at age 92 of complications...Tags: Music, Andy Griffith, Dolly Parton, Country and Western (genre), Los Angeles Times
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Doug Dillard dies at 75; banjo player, member of the Dillards band
Bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs answered a knock at the door of his Nashville home in 1953 to find an eager-looking banjo enthusiast on the porch asking Scruggs to put a set of his special tuner keys on the young man's instrument.
"He was so...Tags: Music, Andy Griffith, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Popular Music (genre), Judy Garland
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2012: The Year the Music Died (So Far)
It’s not even June. But already this calendar year we’ve lost a gut-wrenching list of people who’ve impacted the music world: impresarios Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, R&B legends Johnny Otis and Etta James, the incomparable Band...
Tags: Robert Goulet, Luciano Pavarotti, Bars and Clubs, Teddy Pendergrass, Joe Zawinul & the Zawinul Syndicate (music group)
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Guitarist Doc Watson dead at 89: A 1-2-3 video primer
Pop & HissGuitarist Doc Watson, who died Tuesday at age 89, leaves an extensive legacy that documents his wide-reaching influence in the world of guitar playing and folk music. Here are three video examples of his artistry in different settings.... -
An appreciation: Doc Watson, flatpicker, song stylist, messenger
Pop & HissDoc Watson, whose guitar style was an influence on generations of folk players, died on Tuesday near his North Carolina home. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts offers an appreciation.... -
An appreciation: Doug Dillard was 'my mentor,' John McEuen says
Pop & HissNitty Gritty Dirt Band's John McEuen praises banjo player Doug Dillard as "my mentor." Doug Dillard helped inspire many young fans, including McEuen and Steve Martin, to take up the banjo.... -
Banjo picker Doug Dillard dies at 75; appeared on 'Andy Griffith'
Pop & HissBluegrass banjo player Doug Dillard has died at 75. With the Dillards, Doug Dillard helped popularize bluegrass music in the 1960s during appearances on "The Andy Griffith Show" and contributed to the birth of country-rock music.... -
Big Baby Davis wouldn't survive in real world
Running off at the typewriter. …
Glen "Big Baby" Davis is a living, breathing, jump-shooting, bird-shooting example of why there is a growing disconnect between fans and professional athletes. Davis was fined $35,000 earlier this week for...Tags: Glen Davis, Gary Williams, Orlando Magic, Magic Johnson, Washington Wizards
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"A joyous time with the music"
Earl Scruggs died last week and though not a Kentucky boy, his banjo playing was so elemental to what we now know as bluegrass that it defines our indigenous music. There is much more that defined the man, but most important is the hard picking banjo...
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