❀*✧⋆♫ Music History ♫⋆✧*❀
For the Newbs
Don't have background knowledge in bluegrass? No worries, that's what I expected! Thanks for stopping by! Haddock Bluegrass 101 covers the basics of early bluegrass history (and what I'm most likely to talk about on the rest of this site).
Introducing... the Foggy Mountain Boys
My favorite bluegrass band!
| BLUEGRASS BREAKDOWN Endless collection of roadside stories, primarily 1940s-1960s. The two-lane highway days answer such pressing questions as, "How many times can Flatt & Scruggs catch their bus on fire?" 🔥🔥🔥 and "How will your band get mistaken for a gang of bank robbers?" From lighting their own posters as makeshift torches, to accidentally leaving your fiddler behind in the county jail, to lucky airplane crash survivals, there's enough here for the proverbial "adventure of a lifetime." |
| PRANKS, DARES, AND CROCODILE VENGEANCE More misadventures of men in music. Endless collection of band member interactions from the early days of country and bluegrass. Includes a large dosage of pranks and questionable dares like, "I bet you can't climb the WSM radio tower!" We get to see the Father of Bluegrass's outhouse artwork skills and who will win a standoff against a fully-grown bull. Revenge, like letting a crocodile loose in a motel after being sued for mattress pissing, is also included. |
These pages are VERY much under construction - or, as the bluegrass gospel singers would say, "I'm workin' on a building."
- Earliest Banjo and Folk Music Recordings: The birth of the recording industry, juggernaut labels, and the early acoustic era recording industry.
- The First Country Music Recordings – The Fiddlers: Labels realize that audiences will listen to old-time fiddlers.
- The First Country Music Recordings – Singers and String Bands: Oh wait, there's more old-time music than just fiddlers!
- The Bristol Sessions - The Big Bang of Country Music: The country music industry is proven to be a viable career as interest explodes.
- Birth of Western Swing: Jazz Age meets Western.
- North Carolina Banjo and Pre-Bluegrass String Band Music: Setting the stage for bluegrass.
- 1930s Brother Acts: Harmonies are all the rage.
- Bill Monroe and the Development of Bluegrass: Personal style becomes genre.
- The First Major Bluegrass Groups: Flatt & Scruggs and the Stanley Brothers.
- Bluegrass Spreads: 1950s first generation groups.