Audio Interviews

Click on the first link below to listen to Bela Fleck’s “Bitter Gap” while you peruse the other audio recordings included here. There are many other audio interviews available by download from Google Drive. Go to “SHOP” on the HOME PAGE then purchase the download for for more Audio Interviews and Additional Pages for America’s Music: Bluegrass”

“Bitter Gap” by Bela Fleck

Alan Munde interviews

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Above are some of the audio interviews I conducted with banjoist Alan Munde who is also an educator.

This section is a teaser for the dozens of audio interviews which were used to create America’s Music: Bluegrass. A History of Bluegrass Music in the Words of Its Pioneers.

There are many more interviews accessible to you by download from the SHOP site on the HOME page. The following interviews may be available after the download.

Some pioneers you can listen to are Carl Story, Bill Monroe, Chubby Wise, Curly Seckler, Bela Fleck, Bill Emerson, Bill Keith, Bobby Atkins, Bill Napier, Bobby Thompson, Carlton Haney, Chuck Erikson, Curtis McPeake, Del McCoury, Don Parmley, Don Stover, Earl Scruggs, Doug Dillard, Ed Brown, Eric Weissberg, George Gruhn, Harley Bray, Hot Rize band members, James Bailey, James McKinney, JD Crowe, Jim Shumate, John Hartford, John McEuen, Lance Leroy, Peter Kuyendall, Ray Patterson, Raymond Fairchild, Red Allen, Roland White, Vic Jordan, Wade Mainer, Zeke Morris and many more.

These interviews may not be of the best listening quality because they were recorded to create the book, not for later listening.

Here are some more for you…

Carlton Haney on Bill Monroe
Carlton Haney on his promoting business
Charlie Cline 1988 part 1
Charlie Cline 1988 part 2
Charlie Cline 1988 part 3
Bill Bryson talks about the Country Boys and Dillards
Jody Stecher talks about New York bluegrass
Richard Greene on Monroe influences
Richard Greene on Muleskinner
Richard Greene on Scotty Stoneman
Richard Greene after leaving Monroe
Bobby Atkins in the old days
Bobby Atkins on Benny Martin
George Shuffler after Bill Napier
Gerge Shuffler describes his crosspicking
George Shuffler plays guitar with the Stanleys
Red Allen joins the Osborne Brothers
Red Allen on Frank Wakefield
RedAllen on Jimmy Martin and earning a living
Bela Fleck 1
Bela Fleck 2
Bill Emerson on Cliff Waldron’s band
Bill Keith and Dan Bump invent the D tuners
Bill Keith’s early career
Bill Keith and melodic banjo playing
Bill Keith’s career after Monroe
Bill Napier’s Gandpap character
Bobby Atkins on liquor
Bobby Atkins on Scruggs with Monroe