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Earl Scruggs Center to open in January
Click for a photo gallery of Earl Scruggs through the years (photo by John Partipilo/The Tennessean). Earl Scruggs’ legacy extends every time someone picks a five-string banjo: It was Scruggs’...
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Peter Cooper On Music: Steep Canyon Rangers expand bluegrass’ reach
Steep Canyon Rangers (photo: David McClister) This week, the bluegrass community will convene in Raleigh, N.C., for a big convention, highlighted by the International Bluegrass Music Association’s 24th...
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Gibson Brothers named entertainer of the year at International Bluegrass...
Steep Canyon Rangers perform during the International Bluegrass Music Awards at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Sept. 26, 2013, in Raleigh, NC. (photo: Samuel M. Simpkins / The...
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IBMA rules Raleigh for ‘World of Bluegrass’
Haylee May, of Lansing, N. C. gets warmed up during the Wide Open Bluegrass Streetfest Friday afternoon September 27, 2013 in Raleigh, N.C. (photo: Samuel M. Simpkins/The Tennessean) RALEIGH, N.C. —...
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Peter Cooper On Music: 1973 killings brought fear to Nashville
Click for a photo gallery of the life and death of David 'Stringbean' Akeman (photo: Les Leverett/WSM) On Nov. 10, 1973, Tex Ritter stood on the Ryman Auditorium stage and brought David “Stringbean”...
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Kanye West, Paramore, George Jones tribute lead an arena-sized week of...
Paramore With less than a week to go until Thanksgiving, it’s one of the busiest travel times of the year. As tons of holiday revelers make their way through Music City in the next week, so will more...
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Peter Cooper On Music: Country greats leave us in 2013
Click for a gallery of George Jones over the years (this photo of Jones in 1978: S.A. Tarkington / The Tennessean) Happy still pretty new year. Sad old year. As a Nashville music fan, I was glad to...
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Peter Cooper On Music: Travis Tritt loves to surprise
Click for a gallery of Travis Tritt over the years. (Photo: Richard McLaren) I had no idea about Travis Tritt. I thought I did. I knew he was the Southern rockingest of Nashville’s vaunted “Class of...
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Peter Cooper On Music: Earl Scruggs’ legacy helps rejuvenate his hometown
Randy Scruggs, son of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, stands near a statue of his father at the Earl Scruggs Center in honor of his father during a tour that took place after the Earl Scruggs Center...
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Peter Cooper On Music: Clement and Scruggs’ house jams hosted many legends
A jam session outside Cowboy Jack Clement's house includes Ketch Secor and Gill Landry of Old Crow Medicine Show. (photo: Peter Cooper) Want to buy one of Nashville’s greatest music venues? You can do...
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