Post a Pic from the Past

[f5loar]

Well I had to sleep on who is the comedy guy in the 2nd window of the bus. It's not Benny Sims but it is none other then the great often forgotten "Kentucky Slim" aka Charles Elza from the Elza Mountains of Kentucky. He would do a comedy/dance routine with the Foggy Mtn. Boys but was paid by Martha White as part of the show. With it being the 2nd bus and Slim on there and Uncle Josh on board it would date the photo to around 1958.

[Scott Tichenor]

Here's a comment from this photo pasted on Facebook:

I suspect the gent in the back is Hairl Hensley....longtime WSM radio personality, Opry announcer and great friend to bluegrass.

[Spencer]

FYI I found a picture of a young Hairl Hensley on the web (Always thought it was Harold ).

Hairl Hensley link

There are a bunch of pictures of Bill Yates and the Country Gentlemen in this YouTube offering:

Country Gentlemen video/pictures

Spencer

[Scotti Adams]

Blast from the past. Follows Camp Festival, Azusa, CA, 1990. L-R, front row, Shawn Watkins, Sara Watkins, Gabe Witcher, Chris Thile. Back Row, Byron Berline's Dad, Byron, Alison Krauss, Unknown, Tim Stafford. Byron said they had to come out in the campground after the show and hear these kids...
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[Ole Joe Clark]

While looking at old family photos last night we came across this postcard. The photo quality is poor, it looks to be from about 1941. I know where Howle & Turner's Store was, (I remember it as a kid), but know nothing about the people shown. Maybe someone here can shed some light on the groups shown.

[Psyberbilly]

Bluegrass Album Band at Will Rogers Ausitorium in '82 or '83 . What a SHOW ! Davis & Co. opened the show ( Greg Davis on banjo and a young , but already VERY salty Brad Davis on guitar.)

[Psyberbilly]

Emmylou Harris at The Paladium in Dallas , Texas . 1983

[Psyberbilly]

Ricky Skaggs at the Reo Palm Isle , Longview , Texas , 1982

[Doug Knecht]

Alison Krauss and Union Station and me playing banjo, around 1985.

[Dobe]

Just found this thread, nice stuff!



~ 1990 - Colorado pickers will recognize Danny Elmore- Co-Founder of The Millsite Jam and Mark Vaughn (R.I.P.) former Leftover Salmon Banjo. Thanks to Nicole Elmore - swiped from her FBook page. I miss Danny & Buck !

[woodwizard]

Here's an old 1941 picture of an Ole' gent doing some clogging in Stone County Arkansas. That's Jimmy Driftwood on the archtop guitar. This was well before Jimmy Driftwood got the Mountain View Folk festival going. You can see an old mandolin in the background and take a look at Jimmy's fretting hand. Sure looks like they were having fun!

[Scotti Adams]

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[baptist mando55]

was that the old barn. the one that fell in. sadly as of acouple of years ago it closed down sorry saw a picture from mineral springs music barn several pages back didnt know how to tie together page 9 or 10

[Psyberbilly]

Here's an old 1941 picture of an Ole' gent doing some clogging in Stone County Arkansas. That's Jimmy Driftwood on the archtop guitar. This was well before Jimmy Driftwood got the Mountain View Folk festival going. You can see an old mandolin in the background and take a look at Jimmy's fretting hand. Sure looks like they were having fun!

I see that they have a double bladed hickory handled axe handy in case someone feels like breaking out the banjo !!!

[Spencer]

These are not my pictures, but somebody on COMANDO or BGRASS-L posted this link recently. There are a lot of pictures from Indian Ranch in 1972.

Link to 1972 Indian Ranch Pictures

Spencer

[Scotti Adams]

Another blast from the past

[mandopete]

Another blast from the past

Nice photo Scotti!

I was listening to the Grascals on Sirius XM the other day and I thought about you when they started talking about Harley and what a great songwriter he was. I have to agree 100% on that one!

[Scotti Adams]

Thanks Pete. Yes Harley was the best in my eye. Once you was able to get into his inner circle...he was a very private person...you had a friend for Life. He texted me a week before he passed. I never realized how ill he had become. It was a week later that his brother Greg called me to inform me that he had been taken from the hospital as he requested to pass amongst his love ones at home. This all happened so quickly. I go back and look at You Tube videos taken just a year before he died...I could see the effects of his illness in his face and esp. his signing....not in his wit tho. May you RIP Brother...we all miss you.

[mandopete]

Well, I guess there's still a few of us "old-timers" still here on cafe, eh!



Funny, there was a song I picked up a long time ago called Suzanne. I got it from Ashby Frank's solo recording back when he was kid. We used to play it quite bit at jam sessions around here and a couple friends of mine from Canada really loved the song. It was only after Harley died that I realized he wrote the song. I went back and looked a little further at the liner notes of a lot of the bluegrass recordings I had and saw that name more than several times. You were very fortunate to have the opportunity to work with him!

[tree]

Smithsonian Folkways' Classic Bluegrass double cd includes a version of Suzanne by the Allen-Lilly Band. Mike Lilly ROCKs the banjo on that, very tasty pickin'. Scotty sings a nice baritone and picks the mandolin also. Nice song.

[Jim Yates]

These are from the 1964 Mariposa Folk Festival in Maple Leaf Stadium in Toronto. The workshop photo shows Rev Gary Davis, Gordon Lightfoot, Mississippi John Hurt and Tom Kines. The mainstage photo is the Greenbriar Boys. Frank Wakefield - mandolin, John Herald - guitar, Winnie Winston - banjo and I believe Eric Weisberg was on bass. I think there was also a fiddle player (Jim Buchanan?)

[woodwizard]

I think this is a great pic

[Dobe]

Rosa Lee Watson Passes - R.I.P.
article: http://www.hcpress.com/news/rosa-lee...and-merle.html

[Dobe]

Some old buds, 'The Pumps' ; thanks for posting Nolan (Dobro), Keeley (guitar), Glenn (bass), and some mando picker, I think his name's Drew.

[Benski]

Sam and I sometime around 1968 or 9

Darryl: is the instrument Sam is holding the mando that we will all come to know as Hoss?

Great pics...thanks for sharing them.