Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir

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127 index Acuff, Roy, 93; band members, vii, 8 Adcock, Eddie and Martha, 107 Adkins, Paul and the Borderline Band, 106 Ahrens, Pat, x, xi Alcoa Aluminum, 16 “Alimony Blues,” 27 America’s Music: Bluegrass (book), ix Amos and Andy (radio program), 3 Andy Griffith Show (television program), 41, 95 Ash Grove (music club) (West Hollywood, Calif.), 42, 95 Atkins, Chester “Chet” Burton, 78, 90 Atkins, Ray, 9 Atlanta, Ga., 26 attire. See dress Auldridge, Mike, 78 Babcock Lumber Company (Tellico Plains, Tenn.), 2 Baez, Joan, 42 Bailes Brothers, 8 Bailey, Charlie, 19–20, 90 Baker, Kenny, viii, 9, 27 , 32, 38, 45, 48, 63, 72–73, 77, 81, 86, 92 ; fiddle style, 53; and Josh Graves (see Graves, Burkett Howard “Uncle Josh,” and Kenny Baker); leaves the Blue Grass Boys, 45, 53–5 4 “Ballad of Jed Clampett,” 43 banjo, 4, 19–20, 22, 61, 73, 75; Bottleneck, 5; Clawhammer, 4 Bartenstein, John, xi Bashful Brother Oswald. See Kirby, Beecher “Brother Oswald” Bass Mountain Bluegrass Festival (North Carolina), 106 Bean Blossom (music park) (Bean Blossom, Ind.), 47, 54 Belgium, 77 Berry Field (Nashville, Tenn.), 52 Beverly Hillbillies (television program), 42 “Big Black Train,” viii Billboard (magazine), 75 Bily, Jessica, xi Black, Bob, 54 Bluefield, W.Va., 26 bluegrass, progressive. See progressive bluegrass Bluegrass: A History (book), x bluegrass music, vii, 1, 23, 34, 42, 45, 4 9, 55, 70–78; jealousy in, 55, 7 6 Bluegrass Unlimited (magazine), x Blue Highway, 105 “Blue Ridge Cabin Home,” 24 boar hunting, 85 Bonnie and Clyde (sound recording), 100 Boston, Mass., 41 Breakfast at the Opry (radio program), 31 “Bridge Over Troubled Waters,” 49 Brother Oswald. See Kirby, Beecher “Brother Oswald” Brown, Frank “Hylo,” 30 Brown, Roosevelt, 5 Brunswick, Ga., 99 128 Index Buchner, Henry, 7–8 Burch, Curtis, 98–99 bus, Silver Eagle. See Silver Eagle (bus) Busy Bee Café (Philadelphia, Miss.), 111 Butner Prison (Butner, N.C.), 83 Byrd, Jerry, 63 California, 38, 42, 50 Callahan Brothers, 9 Canada, 20, 61 Capitol Theatre (Maryville, Tenn.), 109 Capo, 63 Carlisle, Bill, 6–7 Carlisle, Cliff, vii, 1, 6–7 , 62, 7 6–77 Carlisle Brothers, 6–7 Carnegie Hall (New York, N.Y.), 26, 31 Carter Fold (Hiltons, Va.), 56 Central Park (New York, N.Y.), 71 Cherokee National Forest (Tennessee and North Carolina), 86 Chicago, Ill., 53 Cincinnati, Ohio, 17, 40 Clarkston Hotel (Nashville, Tenn.), 23 Clements, Vassar, 52 “Cliff.” See Resophonic guitar; Regal, Model 37 “ Cliff” CMH Records, 56, 81 coal camps, 13 Coconut Grove Boys, 5 Columbia Records, vii-viii, 43 Columbus, Ga., 26 Columbus, Ohio, 17 “Come Walk with Me,” 59, 95 Complete Dobro Player (book), x “Confessin’,” 103 coon hunting, 82–83 Cooper, Carol Lee, 91 Cooper, Dale Troy “Stoney,” 17, 20–21, 2 3, 59 Cooper, Wilma Lee, 82 Cooper, Wilma Lee and Stoney, viii, 12, 17–21, 27 , 59, 61, 70, 89, 90, 94–96 Copas, Lloyd Estel “Cowboy,” band members, 8 Cornelia Fort Airpark (Nashville, Tenn.), 52 Cotton Town Jubilee (sound recording), 64 Country Boys, 95 country music, 49 Country Music Hall of Fame, xii Cousin Jake. See Tullock, E. P. “Cousin Jake” Cousin Jody. See Summey, Clell “Cousin Jody” Cozzens, Ellsworth, 96 Cross, Wade, 14 Crowe, James Dee “J. D.,” 18, 91; an d the New South, 60 Davis, Tim, xii Dobro. See Resophonic guitar, Dobro “Dobro Rhumba,” 103 “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down,” 65 Douglas, Jerry, 60, 63, 64, 69, 77–78, 99 Dow, Mike, ix dress, 20, 27 Durham, N.C., 17 “Durham’s Bull,” 29 “Dusty Miller,” 72 Dylan, Bob, songs, 43 “Earl’s Breakdown,” 19 Earl Scruggs and the Five String Banjo (book), 71 Earl Scruggs Revue. See Scruggs, Earl Eugene, Revue Eldredge, Terry, 105 Elliott, Jack “Rambling Jack,” 42 Enterprise, Miss., 81 “Evelina,” 77, 96 Exit/In (club) (Nashville, Tenn.), 74 “Faded Love,” 9 “False Hearted Lover,” 103 Ferguson, Gil, 51–5 2 Fincastle, Va., ix “Fireball,” 60, 96, 101, 102, 104, 11 0 Flack, Roberta, 49 Flatt, Gladys, 70 Flatt, Lester Raymond, 15–16, 43, 46, 70, 92; attitude towards hippies, 47; as emcee, 41–42; as guitar player, 47; on mandolin, 70; Nashville Grass, 45–48, 6 4; Index 129 reconciliation with Bill Monroe, 47; shuns Josh Graves, 55–56 Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, vii, 22–33, 3 4–44, 70–7 2, 79, 92, 93, 98; band bus, 26, 35–35, 38; ban d name, 44...