75 relations: Alan Lomax, Alison Krauss, AllMusic, Banjo, Barry Bales, Big Rock Candy Mountain, Billy Bob Thornton, Bluegrass music, Blues, Bob Neuwirth, Chris Hegedus, Chris Sharp, Chris Thomas King, Coen brothers, Colin Linden, Concert film, Country music, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, D. A. Pennebaker, Dan Tyminski, David Rawlings, Dobro, Documentary film, Double bass, Ed Haley, Emmylou Harris, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fiddle, Folk music, Gillian Welch, Gospel music, Grammy Award, Grand Ole Opry, Holly Hunter, I'll Fly Away, Illinois River, Jehane Noujaim, Jerry Douglas, John Hartford, Keep On the Sunny Side, Larry Perkins, Limousine, Lionsgate, Major League Baseball, Man of Constant Sorrow, Mandolin, Maybelle Carter, Mike Compton (musician), Mississippi River, Monterey Pop, ..., Motorola, Nashville, Tennessee, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack), Pete Kuykendall, Pusher (boat), Ralph Stanley, Resonator guitar, Riverboat, Rock and roll, Ron Block, Ryman Auditorium, Slide guitar, Steel-string acoustic guitar, T Bone Burnett, The Cox Family, The Fairfield Four, The Peasall Sisters, The Whites, Tim Blake Nelson, Time (The Revelator), United States, Universal Music Group Nashville, White House, Tennessee, WSM (AM). Expand index (25 more) »
Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.
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Alison Krauss
Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.
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Banjo
The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.
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Barry Bales
Barry Turner Bales (born August 23, 1969 in Kingsport, Tennessee, United States) is the American long time bass player and harmony vocalist for Alison Krauss and Union Station.
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Big Rock Candy Mountain
"Big Rock Candy Mountain", first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928, is a folk song about a hobo's idea of paradise, a modern version of the medieval concept of Cockaigne.
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Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician.
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Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music named after Kentucky mandolin player and songwriter Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys 1939-96, and furthered by musicians who played with him, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt, or who simply admired the high-energy instrumental and vocal music Monroe's group created, and carried it on into new bands, some of which created subgenres (Progressive Bluegrass, Newgrass, Dawg Music etc.). Bluegrass is influenced by the music of Appalachia and other styles, including gospel and jazz.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
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Bob Neuwirth
Bob Neuwirth (born June 20, 1939) is an American folk music singer, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.
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Chris Hegedus
Chris Hegedus (born April 23, 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker and partner of D. A. Pennebaker in their company Pennebaker Hegedus Films.
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Chris Sharp
Chris Sharp (born 1973 in Asheville, North Carolina, United States) is an American singer and musician who participated in the Grammy Award-winning soundtrack of O Brother, Where Art Thou.
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Chris Thomas King
Chris Thomas King (born Durwood Christopher Thomas, October 14, 1962) is an American New Orleans, Louisiana-based blues musician and actor.
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Coen brothers
Joel David Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse CoenState of Minnesota.
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Colin Linden
Colin Kendall Linden (born April 16, 1960) is a Canadian musician, songwriter and record producer.
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Concert film
A concert film or concert movie, is a type of documentary film, the subject of which is an extended live performance or concert by either a musician or a stand-up comedian.
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Country music
Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the world's largest museums and research centers dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American vernacular music.
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D. A. Pennebaker
Donn Alan "D.
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Dan Tyminski
Daniel John "Dan" Tyminski (born June 20, 1967) is an American bluegrass composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist.
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David Rawlings
David Todd Rawlings is an American guitarist, singer, and record producer.
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Dobro
Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitar, currently owned by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.
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Documentary film
A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.
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Double bass
The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.
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Ed Haley
James Edward "Ed" Haley (August 16, 1885February 3, 1951) was a blind professional American musician and composer best known for his fiddle playing.
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Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Fiddle
A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.
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Folk music
Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.
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Gillian Welch
Gillian Howard Welch (born October 2, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Gospel music
Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.
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Grammy Award
A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.
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Grand Ole Opry
The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM.
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Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress and producer.
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I'll Fly Away
"I'll Fly Away", is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message.
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Illinois River
The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois language: Inoka Siipiiwi) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long, in the U.S. state of Illinois.
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Jehane Noujaim
Jehane Noujaim (چيهان نچيم) (born May 17, 1974) is an Egyptian American documentary film director best known for her films Control Room, Startup.com, Pangea Day and The Square, the latter of which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award.
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Jerry Douglas
Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American resonator guitar and lap steel guitar player and record producer.
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John Hartford
John Cowan Hartford (December 30, 1937 – June 4, 2001) was an American folk, country, and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore.
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Keep On the Sunny Side
Keep on the Sunny Side is a popular American song originally written in 1899 by Ada Blenkhorn (1858–1927) with music by J. Howard Entwisle (1866–1903).
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Larry Perkins
Larry Clifton Perkins (born 18 March 1950 in Murrayville, Victoria) is a former racing driver and V8 Supercar team owner from Australia.
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Limousine
A limousine is a luxury vehicle driven by a chauffeur and with a partition between the driver and the passenger compartment.
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Lionsgate
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., doing business as Lionsgate, is an American, Canadian-domiciled entertainment company.
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.
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Man of Constant Sorrow
"Man of Constant Sorrow" (also known as "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow") is a traditional American folk song first published by Dick Burnett, a partially blind fiddler from Kentucky.
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Mandolin
A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".
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Maybelle Carter
"Mother" Maybelle Carter (born Maybelle Addington; May 10, 1909 – October 23, 1978) was an American country musician.
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Mike Compton (musician)
Mike Compton (born February 29, 1956 in Meridian, Mississippi) is an American bluegrass mandolin player and former protégé of the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe.
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.
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Monterey Pop
Monterey Pop is a 1968 concert film by D. A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967.
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Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company founded on September 25, 1928, based in Schaumburg, Illinois.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 crime comedy film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the soundtrack album of music from the 2000 American film of the same name, written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and John Goodman.
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Pete Kuykendall
Peter "Pete" Van Kuykendall (January 15, 1938 – August 24, 2017) also known as Pete Roberts, was an American bluegrass musician, songwriter, discographer and a magazine and music publisher.
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Pusher (boat)
A pusher, pusher craft, pusher boat, pusher tug, or towboat, is a boat designed for pushing barges or car floats.
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Ralph Stanley
Ralph Edmund Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016), also known as Dr.
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Resonator guitar
A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones (resonators), instead of to the guitar's sounding board (top).
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Riverboat
A riverboat is a watercraft designed for inland navigation on lakes, rivers, and artificial waterways.
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.
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Ron Block
Ronald Franklin Block is an American banjo player, guitarist, and singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the bluegrass band Alison Krauss & Union Station.
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Ryman Auditorium
Ryman Auditorium (formerly Grand Ole Opry House and Union Gospel Tabernacle) is a 2,362-seat live performance venue, located at 116 5th Avenue North, in Nashville, Tennessee and is best known as the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974.
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Slide guitar
Slide guitar is a particular technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues-style music.
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Steel-string acoustic guitar
The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the nylon-strung classical guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound.
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T Bone Burnett
Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III (born January 14, 1948) is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter.
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The Cox Family
The Cox Family is an American country/ bluegrass music group from Cotton Valley in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, United States.
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The Fairfield Four
The Fairfield Four is an American gospel group that has existed for over 90 years, starting as a trio in the Fairfield Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1921.
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The Peasall Sisters
The Peasall Sisters are a country harmony group formed by three of the six Peasall siblings.
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The Whites
The Whites is an American country music vocal group consisting of Sharon White (born 1953), her sister Cheryl (born 1955), and their father Buck (born 1930).
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Tim Blake Nelson
Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor, writer and director.
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Time (The Revelator)
Time (The Revelator) is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Gillian Welch.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Universal Music Group Nashville
Universal Music Group Nashville is Universal Music Group's country music subsidiary.
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White House, Tennessee
White House is a city in Robertson and Sumner counties in the United States state of Tennessee.
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WSM (AM)
WSM (branded as The Legend) is a 50,000-watt AM radio station located in Nashville, Tennessee.
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References
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