Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound and Its Legacy

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Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound and Its Legacy

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With an influx of Appalachian migrants who came looking for work in the 1940s and 1950s, Baltimore found itself populated by some extraordinary mountain musicians and was for a brief time the center of the Bluegrass world.

Life in Baltimore for these musicians was not easy. There were missed opportunities, personal demons and always the up-hill battle with prejudice against their hillbilly origins.

Based upon interviews with legendary players from the Golden Age of Baltimore Bluegrass, this book provides the first in-depth coverage of this transplanted-roots music and its broader influence, detailing the struggles Appalachian musicians faced in a big city that looked down on their “poorest example of poor man's music.“

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Newby had done an enormous amount of research.... In presenting the history he has also done a skillful job of relying on both a thematic and roughly chronological approach, thus creating an enjoyably readable narrative...an important book.... The level of detail that Tim Newby has reconstructed is very impressive

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