Keeping Some Dirt Under the Grass: John Hartford and the Roots of Newgrass (Columns)
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At a time when country music was shining like a new dime, John Hartford and his collaborators were digging into old time music to find something new.
At the turn of the millennium or so, when country music found its way back to the ramshackle cabin where some of its oldest roots in bluegrass had been kept for years, they found there’d been a light left on. And sitting on the porch, banjo on his lap and fiddle at his side, was John Hartford. Born in New York City but raised in St. Louis on the Mississippi River he loved so dearly,…
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