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Noam Pikelny: Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe
In a world full of artists jumping on the roots music bandwagon, this is about as honest and heartfelt as it gets.
05 Feb 2014
In the late 1930s and 1940s, Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys were the biggest stars in country music, but when he appeared onstage at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, he did so after a number of years spent toiling in relative obscurity.
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